Downtown Food Pantry

Our mission is to feed the hungry of Lamar County with no regard to race, religion, sex or country of origin. To deliver the food as efficiently as possible always being cognizant of the resources we have been given. We aim to alleviate the hunger aspect of poverty in the Paris, Texas, area.

We distribute preparable grocery food items to more than 700 households every week (11,730 people in just under 4,200 households in 2020). Customers can receive food every two weeks, or 26 times per year. Groceries are distributed two times per week (Tues & Thurs).

The community of Paris, Texas (Lamar County) is very generous and highly supportive of our efforts. We have more than 20 churches and 15 businesses who donate monetarily to us each year. In addition, six foundation grants are received and countless individuals regularly donate funds. More than 200 energetic, supportive and faithful volunteers keep the well-oiled machine of our agency in constant working order. We partner with the North Texas Food Bank (based in Plano, Texas) and receive food shipments from them twice weekly, maintaining a warehouse of food and distributing thousands of pounds of fresh produce and non-perishables each week.

We've steadily increased each year the amount of food each household receives and in 2020, we gave out 2.86 million pounds of food. We plan to never turn away a family in need and to continue to provide them more food on each visit.