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Our Vision

Reaching under-served families with nutritious food support.

The Need

There is physical hunger and hopelessness among our neighbors, especially those who lack transportation.

The Solution

Provide grocery support to under-served communities in need of food, encouragement, and unconditional love.

Why Now?

Hunger is everywhere and in every neighborhood. Feeding America reports that Georgia is number 4 in the nation when it comes to household food insecurity. Our present economy and high un/under employment has caused households in all neighborhoods to experience food scarcity. Most of all, we must see to the needs of our neighbors out of simple obedience to our greatest commandments which are Love God, Love your neighbor. (Luke 10:26-28)

We Believe

• We believe we can ease the burden of households experiencing food instability by providing nutritious and desirable foods.
• We believe growing a community of compassion requires actively engaging all of God’s Children with purpose and consistency.
• We believe in loving our neighbors unconditionally for who they are at the moment we meet them. We do not discriminate. We serve everyone regardless of race, color, national origin, gender (including gender expression), religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, political beliefs, and marital or family status, parental status, income derived from public assistance programs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activities.
• We believe when individuals learn Forever Fed truly seeks to be the hands and feet of Christ we will earn the privilege of sharing our faith with them.

Our Community Partners

The Atlanta Community Food Bank partners with us by sharing food, community grants, leadership resources, and educational support. This partnership is our resource for 90% of the foods we distribute. This relationship also enables us to receive donated foods from Publix Supermarket, Sprouts Fresh Market, Sam’s Club, and Aldi.

Hillside United Methodist Church generously provides Forever Fed with our Distribution Center Space free of charge. Hillside UMC Missions and Outreach Ministry also supports us financially and with food drives, mission projects, and most importantly, volunteers. Hillside UMC is also kind enough to share printing resources, building and equipment maintenance, and trash service with us. Hillside has graciously accommodated and fueled our tremendous growth and invested in our success in ways too numerous to list. Hillside has met and exceeded all of our expectations and we are very fortunate to share their campus.

Woodstock City Church has partnered with Forever Fed for many years. Not only do we benefit from their food drives, we also receive additional food drive financial gifts empowering us to purchase foods from the ACFB for a nominal cost. The annual “Be Rich” campaigns have infused valuable volunteers,  and several key capital purchases including (but not limited to) our refrigerated box truck, our pantry truck, our two cold storage shipping containers, and many other pieces of equipment we utilize each and every day to sustain our large volume of food distribution. We are abundantly blessed!

We have many additional partnerships, including our fellow food pantries, churches, businesses, schools, scouts, clubs, and more! If your church, business, or organization would like to partner with us please contact Susan@ForeverFed.org.

Forever Fed is much more than the services we offer to families in need. Our job is to seek out and support God’s children who are often passed over, forgotten, or invisible to main stream society.

We minister to under-served people regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, disability, political beliefs, or religious affiliation.

Forever Fed was founded in 2010 by a group of like-minded people with a heart to serve the community with food support.  Our 432 square mile county lacked the public transportation needed for families in need to obtain food support from other agencies.  The most efficient way to reach these under-served families was to travel to them.

In August 2010, after much prayer and with the support of a fantastic group of community leaders, Forever Fed, a Mobile Food Ministry was born. Since our inception God has transformed and grown our ministry. What began as ma prepared meal ministry has graduated into a mobile food pantry providing hundreds of thousands of pounds of grocery support to under-served communities.

WHAT MAKES US DIFERENT? 

Traveling and serving directly in struggling neighborhoods grows everyone’s community awareness. Our Volunteers witness the struggles of their community firsthand, and the families we serve discover and interact with people who care.

Our style of serving in consistent locations on the same day each month has allowed us to gain the trust of the families we serve. Walls of mistrust are being torn down and replaced by warm hugs, encouragement, and joy. Neighbors from all socioeconomic levels are getting to know each other and growing in compassion. Our success in providing hundreds of thousands of pounds of food support to families in need is flavored with the unconditional love of Jesus Christ. Some of our pantry guests even partner with us by becoming volunteers! Together we celebrate life and Glorify God. Many think it odd that we do not preach the Gospel at our events.  Through the years we discovered most of the families we serve already know Christ. Our goal is to remind them they are precious and highly valued.  Simply put, our service is our testimony of His love and our sermon to the world.

SERVICE STATISTICS

2022	Pounds of Groceries Distributed	Households Served	People Served	Children Served	Seniors Served
January	47,300	651	2,763	910	453
February	45,664	714	2,971	1,090	524
March	42,537	702	2,968	1,056	462
April	41,741	624	2,685	992	379
May	57,700	779	3,288	1,175	439
June	59,441	904	3,681	1,118	480
July	59,240	907	3,878	1,496	537
August	66,189	866	3,760	1,419	636
September	37, 106	783	3,039	1,481	367
October	40,627	837	3,121	1,245	454
November	46,036	609	2,536	843	322
December	44,882	703	2190	1,204	291
Totals	588,463	9,079	36,880	14,029	5,304

 

2021	Pounds of Groceries Distributed	Households Served	People Served	Children Served	Seniors  Served
January	69,905	1,139	4,853	1,822	763
February	67,829	1,013	4,144	1,627	625
March	59,415	950	3,873	1,524	587
April	73,209	989	4,069	1,417	580
May	46,583	596	2,339	924	403
June	25,285	583	2,003	651	363
July	35,825	693	2838	1204	356
August	42,579	574	2,551	894	352
September	45,766	844	2,735	945	346
October	44,477	640	2,339	965	387
November	42,256	610	2,418	979	409
December	51,337	787	3081	1181	330
Totals	604,466	9,418	37,243	14,133	5,501

 

2020	Pounds of Groceries Distributed	Households Served	People Served	Children Served	Seniors Served
January	25,845	578	1903	741	210
February	28,210	539	1927	786	171
March*	21,111	314	1084	417	125
April	48,651	688	2739	1083	363
May	59,394	768	3095	1274	476
June	55,358	695	3016	1108	447
July	71,173	793	3335	1493	603
August	76,118	1014	3681	1706	797
September*	69,113	952	3854	1682	660
October*	86,488	1064	4155	1685	650
November	93,307	1180	4687	1884	751
December	84,135	1190	5187	1786	817
Total	718,903	9,775	38,663	15,645	6,070

*notes
March: SHUT DOWN 2 WEEKS TO REDESIGN DISTRIBUTION METHOD
September: SCHOOL BACK IN SESSION-RELIEVED SOME OF THE FOOD INSECURITY IN FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN
October: LARGE AMOUNT OF FRESH FOODS AVAILABLE FROM ACFB, POUNDS PER HOUSEHOLD INCREASED

2019	Pounds of Grocery Distributed	Households Served	People Served	Children Served	Seniors Served
January	19,405	317	1,012	440	58
February	18,228	585	1,877	1,136	104
March	16,750	392	1,183	452	130
April	18,883	461	1562	676	126
May	18,662	444	1,495	594	110
June	16,021	370	1,483	691	106
July	25,985	602	2,467	1,176	137
August	26,078	782	2,214	829	145
September	26,026	514	1,954	874	108
October	25,251	779	2,188	1,108	108
November	22,701	596	1,851	912	153
December	32,810	800	2,441	1,082	233
Total	266,800	6,642	21,727	9,970	1,518

2018	Unique People Served	Unique Households Served	Pounds of Grocery Support	Total Sack Meals	Cans4Kids/Food4U Households	Total Snacks to Children’s Programs	Pantries Hosted	Clothes Closets Hosted
January	980	516	17,486	625	20	750	7	4
February	856	1516	15,916	625	18	750	7	3
March	740	425	15,481	500	16	600	7	2
April	1,003	325	17,132	125	18	1,720	7	3
May	859	310	18,711	700	17	0	7	3
June	847	328	19,600	3,956	27	0	7	3
July	826	319	17,290	3,500	23	0	7	3
August	1,061	355	20,628	0	23	0	7	3
September	910	325	18,323	0	23	1,122	7	3
October	1,071	511	18,561	84	24	1,170	7	3
November	1,194	490	20,290	718	24	0	7	3
December	2117	478	19,827	585	24	550	6	3

2017	Pounds Groceries Distributed	Sack Lunches Served	Families Served	People Served	Children Served	Senior Citizens Served
January	16,939	675	267	833	356	55
February	15,514	1,030	303	952	344	55
March	14,417	540	249	826	341	80
April	15,978	405	575	1,250	674	90
May	18,163	540	458	1,313	510	103
June	20,631	3,280	556	2,568	1,496	93
July	20,316	3,500	293	888	300	73
August	20,047	500	330	1,368	682	85
September	18,114	1,000	464	1,193	588	89
October	18,830	625	404	1,1363	403	83
November	16,195	1,000	508	985	710	78
December	26,728	1,500	1,105	1,468	879	79
Totals	221,872	14,595