Every first and third Saturday of the month, the S.S. Morris Community African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church food pantry ministry provides a variety of free grocery items and hygiene products to those in need in the greater Madison community. In the past few years, it has really begun to grow and serve more people.
“It’s mind-blowing to me how beautiful this pantry has been and how God has just orchestrated this. It started as a simple conversation of how we could do this and within two months, we were doing it,” Lili Milton, a minister at S.S. Morris Church, tells Madison365. “It’s been amazing to see the community that it brings and just watching people at the church say, ‘I want to help.’ Everybody needs help. We all need help with something, and it’s been fun to watch people show up and find out that helping others is really the blessing.”
The food pantry is in the basement of S.S. Morris Church, located on Milwaukee Street on Madison’s East Side, not far from Woodman’s Supermarket…