December 8, 2024

Small Food Pantries

Strasburg, VA


This building is associated with St. Paul Lutheran Church. I stopped there this afternoon to leave a few items in the Blessing Box, which is now located on the porch. There’s also a cabinet of reading materials, including Bibles.


The church is across Washington Street from the white building. It looked very fine in the golden sunlight.


I’ve made it a point to mention the location of various blessing boxes on this blog so that if someone is searching for free food in one of the towns here, they can at least find one of these cupboards with soup and beans, plus hopefully something more interesting to eat. There are a variety of food distribution sites in our valley, but many just operate on certain days and times. Often these are associated with a church. 

Here are some of the blessing boxes that I have shown in the past.


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10 comments:

  1. Tom9:24 PM, December 08, 2024

    ...blessing boxes have become popular here.

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  2. Melissa Baker12:59 AM, December 09, 2024

    Awesome idea to have "Blessing Boxes" in your neighborhood.

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  3. rupam sarma1:30 AM, December 09, 2024

    That's great, Blessing Boxes beautiful initiative

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  4. Stewart M3:51 AM, December 09, 2024

    Those boxes are a good idea. We have ones locally where you can leave books, but not other stuff.

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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  5. David M. Gascoigne,5:15 AM, December 09, 2024

    The more we can do to support those who are less fortunate the better.

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  6. eileeninmd5:21 AM, December 09, 2024

    The blessing boxes are great ideas. It is nice to help out someone in need. Take care, have a great day and happy week ahead.

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  7. Carol @Comfort Spring Station8:27 AM, December 09, 2024

    I have never seen a blessing box and appreciate the need for them. It's a wonderful idea.

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  8. Barbara Rogers9:21 AM, December 09, 2024

    I love blessing boxes, and little libraries that pop up everywhere to offer books, and hopefully donations.

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  9. Jill Harrison8:40 PM, December 11, 2024

    I love this idea of the blessing box. There are so many people struggling to put food on the table. Here in Australia we have outlets called Food Bank where people can go to collect donated food items. We also have places in supermarkets this time of year for putting food items that are then distributed through charities. Enjoy your December. I am joining you at Mosaic Monday.

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  10. EricaSta10:08 AM, December 12, 2024

    What a lovely idea!

    It's Thursday, the afternoon to write my comments. Gray daylight, it's not very inviting to go outside. And I'm happy about another wonderful contribution to MosaicMonday.

    Thank you so much for your participation, dear blog friend ... interesting to read! Greetings from Heidrun

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