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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

 

 

 

Welcome to The CROSS Center

 

NEWS

 

• March 14th Fish Fry at Henry’s Catering. For more information click here!

 

• March 20th Pancake Breakfast at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church. For more information click here!

 

• The CROSS Center is trying not to think about the weather right now, but anticipating a warm March Campaign with the Benton County community. CROSS needs a strong support of donations of food and dollars during March, as it all counts toward the size of the check received later in the year. All donations during March are recorded at the CROSS Center and reported to MINNESOTA FOOD SHARE . The more donations during March the bigger the check.

 

• The need is great. In February, CROSS served 139 families with food, 159 children in those families. So important for enough and good food for everyone but especially those growing children. It is the goal of CROSS to have healthy food to offer. CROSS buys food from the food bank, Second Harvest food bank, where our dollar goes about 10 times farther. The truck delivers the food 2 times a month to CROSS and usually brings 4 to 6 pallets of food each trip.

 

• You can help the one in ten Minnesotans who don’t know where their next meal is coming from by joining the March Campaign now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read the story of two six-year-olds who conducted a food drive for the March Campaign last year over their spring break!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What We Need Today: March 10th

Pancake mix/baking mix, Canned Fruit, Tooth paste, Tooth brushes, Shampoo, Bath Soap, Diapers.

 

 

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.

 

 

"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