Through Intown Collaborative Ministries, churches along the Ponce corridor are working together to provide emergency services and are developing ways to provide long-term assistance for our neighbors in need.

Food Pantry: Druid Hills United Methodist Church is the home of the new food pantry, which is open from 11AM to 1 PM every Saturday. There is a need for volunteers to staff this pantry as well as food to keep it stocked. DHPC has been asked to contribute the following items: canned chicken, packets or small containers of condiments, jelly, and packets or small containers of sugar. Donations are collected during Sunday worship or can be brought to the church office during the week.

Briarcliff Summit Food Co-op: The cost of food from the Atlanta Community Food Bank is funded by the ICM member congregations. Co-op members pay only a small fee which covers the cost of a driver, with a truck, to pick up pre-ordered food from the Food Bank and deliver it to the Summit. Donations of Egg cartons are always welcome (drop off in DHPC office). 

Clothing: Mercy Community Church at DHPC continues to provide clothing to those in need on Mondays and Thursdays, 12:30 to 1:30p.m. There are bins for your clothing donations next to DHPC’s Historical Room.

Transportation and Social Security Assistance: Judy Powell and Joy McKnight provide this help at Church of Our Savior, 1068 N. Highland Ave on Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 12noon.

Freeze Shelter: This past winter, St. John’s Lutheran Church, in partnership with Mercy Community Church at DHPC, opened a freeze shelter to house 10 – 12 people on nights when the temperature drops below 28 degrees.

We hope these ministries and others like it excite you, and that you will join us in helping those who need us by volunteering with Intown. As we all know, it takes a village and we are the village.

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