The Fort Atkinson Food Pantry is open every Monday and Thursday from 3:00 PM until 5:30 PM, except when Holidays occur on Monday or Thursday
Donations may also be dropped off at the Pantry
between 9:00 and 11:00 on Mondays or Thursdays.
The Food Pantry serves individuals and families in the Fort Atkinson School District.
The Fort Atkinson Food Pantry participates in The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), a federally funded food program administered through the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services. TEFAP is a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and provides food for pantry shelves and meal sites in Jefferson and Waukesha counties
Please consider making a donation to the Fort Atkinson Food Pantry.
Donation Checks can be sent to:
Fort Atkinson Food Pantry
P.O. Box 275
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538-0275
The Fort Atkinson Food Pantry is very grateful for the support the Fort Atkinson area provides to us.
Your donations allow us to be operational month to month and year to year. Organizations, clubs and school groups sponsor food drives. Numerous businesses and individuals provide monetary donations and donations of food. We are extremely thankful to St John's Community Church, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, First United Methodist Church, Grace United Church and First Congregational Church for their help with organization and volunteers. In 2022, the Fort Atkinson Food Pantry served an average of 216 families with 667 individuals per month. In addition, the pantry provides extra food to about 160 elementary, middle school and high school students every week during the school year. Without all of you, we could not continue to serve the community.
About the Fort Atkinson Food Pantry
Our Purpose
This non-sectarian organization shall exist for the churches and organizations of the school district of the Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin area to coordinate their efforts to provide food on an emergency basis to persons determined in need. The Fort Atkinson Food Pantry is an equal opportunity provider.
The basis for our purpose is found in James 2:14-17:
What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
The Food Pantry seeks to move beyond the immediate situation of need to enable the self-determination of patrons.
Respect for denominational and personal integrity.
The Food Pantry seeks neither to impose a theological nor a value system upon persons being served, respecting the validity of their humanity. The Food Pantry also recognizes the sincerity of its member congregations and their traditions regarding certain theological, social and ethical issues about which we may have honest differences. In the same attitude, although we strive for the highest standards of Christian social service, we recognize that there are many ways to express Christian concern. The Food Pantry seeks to be a vehicle for the organized, strategic, and helpful expression of Christian love, mission, and self-sacrifice. Although structural reforms are usually necessary if suffering is to be corrected, one-to-one relationships of friendship and bearing one another’s burdens are also necessary. The Food Pantry provides a tolerant cooperative enterprise through which its officers and volunteer workers can express many styles of Christian commitment. Working together in behalf of the need of others we will not transgress on the needs or preferences of our own congregations, fellow Christians disciplines, and those we seek to serve.
Officers
President – Alan Timm
Vice-President – Don Gross
Treasurer – Gary Thom
Secretary – Laurie McHenry
Corresponding Secretary – Vicki Keogh
Board Members
Jane Waters
Chuck Haugen
Tim Haak
Jim Geyer
Tom Sehnert
Russ Patefield
Barb Esch
Officers and board members represent St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, First United Methodist Church, Grace United Church and First Congregational Church.
Pantry Manager
Debbie Kutz
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