MILLSBORO – Mountaire Farms has partnered with The Bridge radio station to create Feed Your Faith, a partnership that will help restock faith-based, nonprofit food pantries throughout Delmarva this winter.

“With our regular food pantry delivery program, we already help more than 40 food pantries every month across Delmarva, but we wanted to make sure faith-based groups had enough to get them through the coldest months of the winter,” said Mountaire Farms President Phillip Plylar.  

“The holidays are busy times for giving back but we know people are hungry after Christmas too.” 

Feed Your Faith will be held on Friday, Feb. 18 from 9 a.m. to noon. The deadline for faith-based organizations to sign up is Jan. 31 here; only those who register may take part in this event. The limit per organization is 30 cases of chicken. 

Volunteer teams will be distributing the cases of chicken and other food items at two locations on Delmarva: Crossroad Community Church in Georgetown and Allen Memorial Baptist Church in Salisbury, Maryland.

Each case of freshly processed chicken weighs 40 pounds and is comprised of four individually sealed 10-pound bags, with boneless white meat (breast/tenders or a combination of the two depending on what product is most readily available in February).

Those doing pickup must have appropriate vehicle space, coolers, etc. to safely transport fresh chicken and nonperishable food items and the freezer/refrigerator space to safely store it.

This program allows Mountaire to help refill the pantries of all their community partners on Delmarva on a single day of distribution. 

Anyone wishing to assist with this initiative may purchase nonperishable food item packages on The Bridge’s website.