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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

• These are the goals that the CROSS Center has set for the March Campaign.

                   -  8,500 pounds

                   - 13,000 dollars

• At the CROSS Center in one year…

                   - Served 4425 people

                   - Gave out 143,834 pounds of food

                   - Spent $34,663 on food

                   - Utility Bill-$8,989

                   - Salaries-None

• Thank you for registering for the March Campaign. If you have ordered posters, they are all in the mail or ready for pick up, depending on your selection. If you would like to order posters, please visit www.mnfoodshare.org/resources and order as soon as possible. There are plenty of posters and you will want to get them in front of your supporters! If you ordered posters and could use more, feel free to submit another on-line order.

• The annual Fish fry is coming up on February 23!! It is from 5pm-7pm at Henry's Catering. The price is $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for children ages 5-10, and $2.00 for children 4 and under. Come and support the Cross Center. Thank You.

• Thank you for everyone who helped the CROSS Center over the holiday season. Your helps made this season special for so many families.

 

• 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 would like to thank Joan Spiczka for the donation of 1000 toothbrushes.

• 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: February 26th .

Toothpaste, Deodorant, Bath Soap, Body Wash, Shampoo, Popcorn, Paper Towels, Kleenex,  Canned Kidney Beans, Cream of Chicken Soup, and Cream of Mushroom Soup.

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