Peace Lutheran Church supports multiple organizations with food donations, volunteers, and special fundraising activities.

• Food Bank Donations
    Items for Food Banks may be placed in the designated drawer in the Narthex, any time of any month. These donations are then delivered to each food bank on a rotating basis.
    More about our local food banks:
  • West Seattle Food Bank
  • White Center Food Bank

  Reminder about Food Bank Donations: The White Center Food Bank does not accept foods that are more than a year old and foods that are not readily identifiable, such as rare gourmet items. Kid-friendly food donations are very welcome. Both the White Center Food Bank and West Seattle Food Bank continue to see increasing need in our community. For more information, contact Boots or Marcia.

• The Welcome Table
    Peace members collaborate with other faith organizations in West Seattle and White Center to host the Welcome Table each week on Saturdays.
   
  The Welcome Table is held on Saturdays, 12:00-1:00pm, at the Body of Christ Church White Center, between 14th and 15th Ave SW on SW 102nd.
   
  Food donations for the Welcome Table may be brought forward on the first Sunday of each month during communion. Food and other goods may also be delivered directly to the Welcome Table on Saturdays before 11am.
   
  For more information about this opportunity to meet our neighbors, and learn about non-food donations that are welcomed, please see Peace Lutheran Church – Welcome to the Welcome Table
• Little Free Pantry
    Peace Lutheran Church operates a Little Free Pantry at the corner of SW Thistle St and 39th Ave SW, on the patio of the church grounds. Donations for the LFP may be brought to the patio any time that is convenient for members, friends and neighbors. (Peace members also operate a Little Free Library.)
• Giving Gardens
    Peace Lutheran Church members volunteer to grow food with the Seattle Giving Garden Network, to donate to neighborhood food banks and other giving organizations, in two ways:
  • As an SGGN “Sprouts” volunteer. Working in our local West Seattle SGGN greenhouse February-April each year, to start vegetable sprouts from seed, working closely with The Heron’s Nest greenhouse staff.
  • As an SGGN “Grower”, Growing vegetables in P-patches, in yards, in pots on patios, anywhere vegetable plants can grow and thrive to harvest and donate.

  Previous Giving Garden projects by Peace members included:

  • Patio Pots – For several years, Peace members grew tomatoes for food bank donation in pots on the church patio. The patio tomato project is currently on hold and eligible for adoption by interested Peace members.
  • P-Patch Growing – Peace members once maintained a P-Patch Giving Garden (not associated with the SGGN organization), in collaboration with a local charitable organization with land to host the grow operation. When that organization sold their land, this coincided with the retirement of the project’s organizers. Peace members haven’t pursued a new P-Patch location, pivoting to greenhouse work with the SGGN instead. This project is currently on hold, pending new leadership and sourcing of a new P-Patch location. It is eligible for adoption by interested Peace members.

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