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Please make a donation to the CROSS Center. Any amount is greatly appreciated.

320-968-7012

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Cross Center of

Benton Co, MN

150 Fourth Ave.

P.O. Box 205

Foley, MN 56329

Mondays:

1pm-4pm, 6pm-8pm

Thursdays:

10am-3pm

Other Local Services

FARE FOR ALL
Resurrection Lutheran Church
610 County Road 2

St. Joseph, MN
Open to everyone, sells packages of fruits, vegetables, and frozen meats. 3:30 - 5:30 on Monday night -see website for schedule and prices.  

 www.fareforall.org  

1-800-582-4291

FARE FOR ALL

Salem Lutheran Church 90 Riverside Dr. SE, St. Cloud, MN 56329    Dates for 2016:  

Sept 12, Oct 3,

Nov 7, Dec 5.  

(same choices and prices as the St. Joe one)

RUBY'S PANTRY

  in Ramey, MN
Bethany Lutheran Church
34238  Nature Rd
Pierz, MN  56364
 
2nd Wednesdayof the month
Distribution

5:00-6:30pm 

$20 for each unit of food.  Bring empty containers for your food.

Welcome to The CROSS Center

NEWS

• Challenge Yourself to End Hunger by accepting the 2018 Food Shelf Challenge from Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless and CROSS of Benton County this July. You can make a difference for hungry families in Benton County.
• We see an increase in child visits during the summer. When school is out for summer vacation, many children miss out on free school meals and their families turn to us for support.  Food Shelf helps provide nutritious fruits and vegetables to these families and needs your help this summer. Last July, CROSS Center had 376 visitors and 141 of them were children.
• You can make a difference this year by donating to CROSS throughout the month of July. The more you donate, the larger our food shelf’s grant from Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless will be. The challenge funds will proportionally match your donation. Your financial donation will go further due to our buying power. We can purchase food from our food bank for pennies on the pound.
• Donations can be sent to CROSS, PO Box 205, Foley MN.  56329
• Questions ? Call during our open hours:  Monday 1-4, 6-8;  Thursday 10-3 Phone:  968-7012

 

• We would like to stress the importance of personal care items. Our shelves are looking bare and they need to be filled with items like tooth paste, tooth brushes, deodorant, shampoo, bath soap, hand soap, etc.. Many people come in looking for these items and it would be very beneficial if they had a selection to chose from.

• The CROSS Center is looking for volunteers. There have been several days when we have been short staffed. Any help is appreciated. For more information email us at crosscenter@hotmail.com.

• Remember to bring your donations in during CROSS open hours and knock on the door if it is locked. If you have a large donation, please let us know ahead of time when it is coming. Everything that we cannot use or has been rotated off the shelves is recycled and nothing will be thrown away. However, if donations are left outside the building and they get wet or smelly, we cannot bring them inside and they must be tossed. Please bring your donations during open hours, Monday 1-4, 6-8; Thursday 10-3.

Thank you for all you do to help us serve others in Benton County.

What We Need Today: Aug 20th .

Toothpaste, Deodorant, Bath Soap, Body Wash, Shampoo,  Paper Towels, Kleenex, Popcorn, Cream of Chicken Soup, Apple Sauce, and Sloppy Joe Sauce.

Monetary donations are always welcome as well. Your dollars go further when we buy at the food bank.

What We're About ...

This web site seeks to introduce you to the work and ministry of the C.R.O.S.S. Center in Benton County. It is our hope to acquaint you with the reasons for its existence, the resources it provides and the opportunities YOU are afforded to make a loving and significant difference in the lives of many of your neighbors who find themselves in a time of real crisis or need. Through a dedication to ongoing education, commitment, partnership and resourcing, the C.R.O.S.S. Center seeks to develop a growing awareness of the basic needs around us for food and clothing; to generate a passion to address those needs with compassion, love and care; to foster a willingness to partner together to accomplish much more than would otherwise be possible; and to challenge one another to each do our part to provide the best resources possible, to serve those in need through volunteers who truly care, and to support clients with what it takes to meet their real emergency needs. Whether you find yourself in the role of donor, volunteer or recipient - the ministry of the C.R.O.S.S. Center seeks to address real needs with compassion, integrity and a loving response. To that end, I hope you will join with us and play your part in making a real difference in the lives of those in need!

C.R.O.S.S. Mission: To provide encouragement and assistance to residents of Benton County who are experiencing short-term difficulties in meeting their basic needs for food and clothing.  Assistance is provided regardless of race, color or creed for those who qualify.

CROSS of Benton County serves all low income persons living in Benton county including persons with disabilities to the best of our ability.

"America is the richest country in the world.  And yet tonight, thousands of your neighbors will go to bed hungry.  It may be your child's schoolmate who is undernourished and has difficulty learning on an empty stomach.  Or it could be a co-worker, a working mother whose low-wage job doesn't make ends meet.  Perhaps it's an elderly neighbor who has to make a decision whether to delay filling a prescription or buying groceries.  The faces of hunger are as broad as the faces of America."

                               David Jasby, General Mills