Food Ministries
Feeding hearts and bellies is core to our identity as a caring community.
From community meals to growing vegetables to share to making sandwiches for the unhoused of our city, we are committed to these food ministries.
Growing produce for our neighbours
We partner with Urban Seedling and the West Island Mission to grow beautiful produce for our West Island neighbours experiencing food insecurity.
Urban Seedling plants the veggies, our volunteers (as part of our Vacation Creation Camp) water and care for the veggies, and teams from the West Island Mission come to harvest every few weeks.
Over the 2023 season, our vegetable garden offered up 6 harvests and the 2024 season appears to be on track to do the same!
Supper. Together.
Come as you are, pay as you can, help as you're able—and enjoy the simple pleasure of eating together in community.
4:30-6:00: "Community Happy Hour" with non-alcoholic drinks and snacks + the option of takeout if you can't stay
6:00: Gathering/gratitude moment before the meal
6:00-7:30: Supper. Together.
Interested in welcoming, cooking, shopping? Get in touch to let us know how you’d like to help: familiesandyouth@cedarparkunited.org.
Community Connections
Come enjoy a light lunch (pay as you can) and an afternoon of making a difference for others beyond our walls — all in an open, inclusive, multigenerational setting.
Lunch: 11:30 AM to 1 PM (pay as you can)
Activities: 1-3 PM (making sandwiches and love notes for Bread and Beyond, knitting Izzie dolls for children in conflict zones, painting hope stones...)
Come for a while or stay for the whole time. Let us know below how you're able to participate.
Hear why Alice loves to make sandwiches at Community Connections...
Comfort Pantry
In response to the increasing difficult life situations that many are facing, we created a Comfort Pantry in the hallway near the Comfort Food Freezer.
Anyone is welcome to take from the shelves and anyone is welcome to fill the shelves.
Here's what we hope to keep the shelves stocked with:
Peanut butter/jam
Single-serving snacks (apple sauce, granola bars, juice boxes, crackers, etc.)
Pasta/sauce/canned tomatoes/rice/Kraft dinner
Breakfast cereal/shelf-stable milk
Cans of soup and crackers
Period products (pads, tampons, etc.)
You can access the Comfort Pantry on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 to noon, and on Sundays from 9:15-10 AM and 11:15 AM to 12.
Comfort Food Freezer
You can find this freezer between the two sets of doors of the church building. It’s there for anyone who needs a meal or a muffin, for whatever reason, and to ensure that CPU can provide nutritious meals to a number of older members who live alone, and to families who could use some food support.
You can contribute clearly labelled and dated, home-cooked, frozen meals in portions for 1, or for a family. You can take a meal when you need one.
The freezer is accessible on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9AM to noon. and on Sundays from 9:30 to 10AM and after worship, from 11:15 to noon.