The Mercer County Food Bank has announced new locations for its Mobile Pantry food distribution program for 2025.

The program is designed to provide additional access to nutritious food for low-income residents living in rural and underserved areas of Mercer County. It operates as a drive-thru style food distribution, offering shelf-stable foods, protein, bread, dairy, and produce when available.

The new Mobile Pantry locations and schedule for 2025 are:

  • Sandy Lake Presbyterian Church (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) – First Wednesday of the month
  • St. John’s Lutheran Church, Greenville (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) – Second Thursday of the month
  • Reynold Drive-In Theater, Reynolds (12 p.m. to 2 p.m.) – Third Friday of the month

 “The initial goal of the Mobile Pantry program was to provide additional access to nutritious food to low-income neighbors who live in food deserts and rural and underserved areas, with the hope that those communities would come together to form actual food pantries and/or feeding sites to serve neighbors struggling to put food on the table,” said Rebecca Page, Executive Director of the Mercer County Food Bank. “In 2023, we saw incredible success in the program's current locations, as communities now have food pantries through local churches to help meet the need, which prompted our staff to mobilize the program to other areas of need throughout the county,” Page added.

More than 15,000 people in Mercer County, including more than 4,300 children, experience food insecurity, meaning they don’t always know where their next meal will come from.

Through a network of more than 50 member agencies and direct distribution programs like Mobile Pantry, MCFB is providing food to more than 12,000 food-insecure residents each month. The organization’s goal is to continue to close the meal gap throughout Mercer County.