OUR MISSION:

The Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries is an interfaith service that provides food and fellowship to those in need and educates our community on hunger and poverty.

Learn More  ABOUT WHAT WE DO:

We provide enough food for over 1 million meals each year.  This includes home-style meals served each day at one of our 9 meal sites, and groceries are available each week at one of our 5 food pantries.  We are an interfaith ministry, with all locations hosted by faith communities.

The following week and onward our current operations are as follows:  

Our food pantries are OPEN with curb-side delivery.
Please remember to wear a face mask.

First Baptist Church of Essex meal site open with curb-side pick up of meals to go
Mondays, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
10 Prospect Street, Essex

Old Saybrook meal site open with curb-side pick up of meals-to-go
Wednesdays, noon-1:00 p.m.
at Grace Episcopal Church, 336 Main Street, Old Saybrook

Deep River meal site open with curb-side pick up of meals-to-go
Thursdays, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
at Deep River Congregational Church, 1 Church Street, Deep River

Centerbrook meal site open with curb-side pick up of meals-to-go
Fridays, noon-1:00 p.m.
at Trinity Lutheran Church, 109 Main Street, Centerbrook

Chester meal site open with curb-side pick up of meals-to-go
Sundays, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
at United Church of Chester, 29 West Main Street, Chester
(download flyer here - English, Spanish.)

All other meal sites are temporarily closed.

Locations of Food Pantries:
Tuesdays, 1:00-2:45 p.m. - St. Mark's Roman Catholic Church, 222 McVeagh Road, Westbrook
Tuesdays, 3:00-5:00 p.m. - First Church of Christ in Saybrook (Congregational), 366 Main Street,
Old Saybrook
Wednesdays, 5:45-7:45 p.m. - First Church of Christ, Congregational, 55 Church Road, Clinton
Thursdays, 5:00-6:00 p.m. - St. John's Episcopal Church, 400 Main Street, Niantic
Saturdays, 9:00-11:00 a.m. - First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, 2 Ferry Road, Old Lyme

To donate food - click here for drop-off dates, times and locations.

Note:  Volunteer meetings are suspended at this time.