(formerly Senior Saturday Luncheon)
Since 2021, The Church of Good Shepherd has focused much of its outreach on programs focused on feeding food insecure people in northern Westchester County. The ministry began by providing bag lunches to families that frequented food pantries in Mohegan Lake and Katonah NY. In 2022, the ministry added a program specifically focused on providing food and community to seniors.
Many older adults in Westchester are dependent on senior centers for food and community. However, the centers are only open from Monday through Friday. On weekends there is no place in northern Westchester to get these essential needs met. Church Of Good Shepherd recognized this problem and began a once a month weekend program to help address it. At its inception, it was assumed that the program would be serving between 20 to 30 seniors at each lunch. Two years later, we doubled our impact by serving twice monthly and now serve a core group of over 100 people.
In 2024, we expanded the senior program to include Brewster, a nearby town in Putnam County, which has a large populations of older adults, many of whom are food insecure.
In the spring of 2026, we will begin serving seniors in Mohegan Lake.
With the addition of Brewster and Mohegan Lake, between the senior and food pantry ministries, the church will provide about 10,000 full meals annually.
