Caring Ministries

Caring Ministries partners with several Churches across southern Arizona. To find a distribution location and start time, visit wearecaring.org/get-food for more details.

Fry's Food Stores, is one of many stores that Caring Ministries rescues food from. We were invited to celebrate with them for being the ZERO HERO for the fourth quarter of 2023. This means that of all the 120+ stores in Arizona, this store donated the most food. The store then is provided a check to give to any nonprofit they choose, they decided on Caring Ministries!! What an incredible blessing to partner with this store that understands the food needs in the community and gives generously.

Sahuarita Baptist Church is a distribution partner of Caring Ministries. This church is serving people in their community. We are thankful and grateful for your continued dedication to bringing volunteers and blessing others in need. For more information about this distribution and others, visit wearecaringorg/get-food

Monday at Caring, Tree of Life brought their group to make food boxes for their monthly food distribution. The group did a great job and we are thankful for their hearts to serve others.

Searching for a location near you? Food distribution times and locations can be found at wearecaring.org/get-food.

In addition to another group U-City also brought a large group of volunteers. U-City has a food distribution on this Saturday of every month. Volunteers are making boxes for the distribution. We are blessed by their willingness to help others in need.

Today, we hosted a group from Pusch Ridge Christian Academy, South Campus. These students had a blast serving and one student led out in prayer! God cherishes these little ones. We are grateful to them for volunteering today!

We send our trucks out six days a week to pick up food from grocery stores throughout Tucson. Here is a look inside the one truck after four stores. It may not seem like a lot yet, but there are still more stores to visit and sometimes pallets of food that also have to fit.

There are several ways in which Caring tries to have tasks for each age demographic. Often you can see young children assisting in making food boxes or bagging candy that will be put into the food boxes. We also have seasoned folks assisting on the truck runs and helping at food distributions. Recently, the team heard about Norma, a 93-year-old woman who loves to do projects to keep herself busy. She grew up on a farm in Kansas. Her dad worked for the government and his work brought the family to Fort Wachucca in 1967. The family settled in Tucson and her dad would make the commute every day. Norma has four children, two of whom have ties to Caring Ministries in some way. Sonia is the wife of Gordon who is the pastor of First Baptist Church Picacho a partner church to Caring. Sonia's sister Paula volunteers for a few hours at our other resource center. Word got around that several flyers needed to be altered with white-out. Knowing that this project would be great for Norma, she would take several flyers home for her to work on. We are thankful for Norma taking the time to go through piles of flyers. Volunteers are a huge part of Caring Ministries. If you are interested in volunteer opportunities visit wearecaring.org/get-involved.

April 15th is MONDAY! There is still time for Arizona residents to get a dollar-for-dollar match by giving to Caring Ministries for their 2023 taxes. To give go to wearecaring.org/donate/

Do you know where your tax dollars are going? Redirect your tax dollars into places you want to support like Caring Ministries. We qualify for a Dollar-for-Dollar tax credit for Arizona residents.

He has Risen!!

AZGIVES Day is closing quickly. Please go to azgive.org to give and help Caring Ministries continue to serve our community with life-giving resources such as food!

We could use your help. There are several volunteer opportunities around Caring Ministries. One place specific is our morning food rescue runs. If this is something you are interested in please go to wearecaring.org/volunteer for more info and to apply.

ATTENTION ARIZONA RESIDENTS! Dollar-for-Dollar tax credits are available to you. Individuals can give up to $421, While couples can give up to $841.

March 12th started early giving for AZ Gives Day, the last day to give through AZGives.org is April 2. Giving is a huge blessing to our ministry and continuing our mission.

Dessert Christian Middle School is currently in its mission week. Students used one day to serve at Caring Ministries. The students did a great job unloading food trucks, sorting boxes, and creating thousands of pounds of produce for distribution. Grateful for the students serving with us.

Yesterday, a group of students from Praying Pelicans Missions served at Caring Ministries. The students stayed busy crating potatoes, bagging beans, and making food bags. We are thankful for all their hard work and hope to see them again.