These three words sum up the work of the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry.

We are an equal opportunity provider. The only requirement to receive help is to have a genuine need and to live within the geographic boundaries of our three parishes.

We are neighbors going out to help our fellow neighbors.  When a family is in need, we pair them with a volunteer member. In the St. Denis - St. Columba School, we have a food pantry with wire racks, four freezers, and a refrigerator. Once we have provided the family with food, we continue to walk with them in the ways they need.

We become simply a comforting friend.

Our History

Our Resources

We Help People

​​​In 1980, to help with calls for food and other assistance, the parishioners of St. Denis and St. Columba banded together to distribute Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter baskets. By 1981, the first food pantry was organized in the basement of a private home.

Eventually a pantry was built in the back of St. Denis-St. Columba School. In 1998, St. Kateri Tekakwitha joined the other two parishes in their mission. The food pantry was remodeled in 2005 and blessed by then Monsignor Colacicco.

This organization brings together volunteers from the parishes of St. Denis, St. Columba and St. Kateri, along with other members of the community to fulfill one of the corporal works of mercy - feed the hungry.

We serve people in genuine need of supplemental food assistance.

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We purchase meat, dairy and other essentials from the Regional Food Bank 
of New York on a monthly basis. Non-perishable food is donated by the parish communities and by organizations conducting food drives.

At Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, we provide our clients with a grocery store gift card they can use for their holiday meal shopping. At Christmas, we provide a gift card for all children under the age of eighteen, so their parents or guardians can purchase a special gift for the child.

We collect school supplies in late summer, and we have a selection of coats, hats, and gloves for children in need during the cold seasons.

"Extend your mercy towards others so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?"

~ St. Vincent de Paul-