This past Saturday (11/8/25), we held a special drive-through grocery day at TLC Food Pantry. We have fielded a number of inquiries in regard to food availability and a number of gracious volunteers stepped up to help. The donations we have received allowed us to restock our shelves and to prepare additional bags. We were able to distribute these bags during the drive-through event.
IF YOU, OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW, IS STRUGGLING WITH FOOD INSECURITY FROM THE RECENT SNAP IMPACT, WE HAVE ADDITIONAL BAGS PREPARED. THEY ARE AVAILABLE FOR PICK-UP AT TLC FOOD PANTRY.
Additionally, we have our upcoming regular monthly Service Date scheduled for Saturday, 11/22/25. This service day includes our regular shopping. If you are on our email list, we will send a notice about this event in the next week or so. We will also share a new post on this site when that event is coming up. Hint – ALL are welcome;-)
Use the ‘Contact‘ link above if you have any specific questions and/or to request any SNAP supplemental bags if you need them.
TLC Food Pantry — come for the food, stay for the community!
There has been much unrest in the national media recently. An incredibly long government shutdown and many ramifications stemming from it. Of course the impact on SNAP being one of the most challenging.
This coming Saturday (11/8/25) TLC Food Pantry will have a supplemental service day to help bridge the SNAP gap until funding is restored or until a long-term, permanent solution is found. We have heard from a number of individuals and groups in the community and we have been fortunate enough to have a great team pull this together.
If you are familiar with our pantry, this will NOT be our regular service style. Our team has prepared packaged bags which will be distributed in a “drive thru format.” Beginning at 1:00pm, we will have volunteers outside the church handing out (2) bags per household. (We cannot allow any picking up for a neighbor or friend this week). All bags contain the same items:
Spaghetti
Mac & Cheese
Mixed Fruit
Vegetable Soup
Peanut Butter
Instant Oatmeal
(3) cans of veggies
Chick Peas
Tomato Sauce
Tuna
Meat Ravioli
Granola Bars
Toilet Paper – (2) rolls
Paper Towel – (1) roll
Hand Soap
We have been in contact with the Haverford Police Department to help direct traffic. Please note – we cannot allow advance waiting in line and there cannot be any illegal traffic moves (ie – U-turns on Brookline Blvd). Anyone waiting in line, blocking traffic, or impeding the residents on Brookline Blvd. or Earlington Rd. will be asked to move along until service starts. We are more than happy to help, but we will do so in a lawful and respectful manner for our friends and neighbors.
Pickup will occur off Brookline Blvd (see map below). Please stay in your vehicle and the bags will be brought out to you. If you are new to TLC Food Pantry, we will have a Registration QR code handy so you can be informed of our future service dates. Throughout the day, we do ask for your patience, as this will be a different method for us. 🤞
You will find us at 501 Brookline Blvd. Havertown, PA 19083
There is also a stop for the Septa 103 bus on our block. If taking the bus, we also ask that you are mindful of where the bus stop is in relation to the neighbors next door. Thank you!
TLC Food Pantry — come for the food, stay for the community!
Social Distancing or not, the power of community is a force beyond all measure! Around 12:00 today, a small “food delivery task force” assembled outside TLC Food Pantry. Their mission?? To ensure regular monthly food service to our patrons and to some new friends as well – albeit in a different manner than we are accustomed to.
Our regular monthly food service involves lots of friendship and fellowship. We gather together, share a little snack and some coffee, and then walk hand-in-hand to ‘shop’ from the pantry shelves. I feel confident in saying that everyone involved genuinely looks forward to our monthly get-togethers.
COVID-19 threw a big, fat wrench in those plans of course (like it has done to just about everyone else worldwide). But people are Good. Amidst all the anxiety, fear, and stress out there, you can see that people are looking out for each other. They want to lend a hand in any way possible. That’s exactly what we saw with today’s plan.
Forty bags of food were packed and prepared earlier this week. Countless phone calls and emails were exchanged to pull together the extensive delivery plan. Volunteers reached out offering to drive bags around Delaware county and into Philadelphia. Then, despite the rain on this Saturday late in March, minivans, SUVs, cars, and trucks pulled up to TLC, were loaded up with bags of food, and took off again on their assigned routes. (all while maintaining a 6 foot radius and using lots of Clorox wipes;-)
It was not our regular service day by any stretch of the imagination. Although it might have just been the best, most heart-felt one yet…
TLC Food Pantry 