Hard Work. Good Neighbors. Showing Up for Working Families.
We believe Jesus called us to love the folks around us. So that's what we do. Food, a friendly face, and a hand up — for working families going through a hard stretch.
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We believe Jesus called us to love the folks around us. So that's what we do. Food, a friendly face, and a hand up — for working families going through a hard stretch.
▶ Get Help NowNeighboring Hearts is neighbors helping neighbors. Plain and simple. We're not a big organization with a big staff and a big budget. We're people from the community who felt called to show up — and so we do.
Showing up. That's what neighbors do.
Working families are the backbone of every community we serve. They get up early. They do hard jobs. And when a hard stretch hits — when the work slows down, when the bust comes, when something goes sideways — there's not always somewhere to turn. We want to be somewhere to turn.
We bring food, groceries, and a friendly face. We believe there ought to be a place where every family can sit down at the table. No questions about where you're from or what you believe or how you got here. Just neighbors. Just people. Just food on the table.
Jesus fed thousands with almost nothing. We figure we can do our part with what we've got.
Neighboring Hearts / Restoring Hearts Supporting Hands — 501(c)(3) — EIN 93-4976456
José — one of our Tuesday night regulars — helps us serve Spanish-speaking families in the community. If you or your family is more comfortable in Spanish, José is happy to help.
Ayuda con alimentos, navegación de recursos, y conexión con la comunidad. Sin formularios. Sin lista de espera.
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We show up. That's the mission. Here's what showing up looks like on any given week.
We get food to families who need it. Groceries, staples, whatever we've got. No eligibility test. You need food, we bring food.
A hard stretch doesn't have to mean going it alone. We walk alongside families while they find their footing.
Housing questions, knowing who to call — sometimes you just need a neighbor who knows the community. That's us.
We're not here for one Saturday. We're here. When the work slows, we don't stop. Steady neighbors, every season.
Jesus fed thousands with five loaves. We bring what we've got.
We were sitting in Bible study one night — just a handful of us, nothing special — and someone read out of Matthew. The part where Jesus talks about feeding the hungry and welcoming the stranger. And one of us said, well, are we doing that? And the honest answer was, not really.
That was the start of it. Jesus saves. We believe that. God put it on our hearts to do something about the people right around us — the family down the road going through a hard stretch, the folks who show up to work every day and still can't make ends meet. We figured if we believed what we said we believed, we ought to get up and do something.
We're not a church. We're not trying to be. We're just neighbors who take Jesus seriously when He says to love the people around us. Every door is open. Every family is welcome. Christ's table had room for everybody. We're just trying to do the same thing in our little corner of the world.
If you're a neighbor, you're who we serve.
We don't ask where you're from or what you do or how you got here. Working families are the backbone of every community we serve. When something goes sideways, we want to be somewhere you can turn. That includes veteran families and military families who've given a lot and sometimes come home to a hard stretch. No forms. No waitlist. That's just what neighbors do.
When the work slows down and the hard times come, you find out real quick who your neighbors are. We want to be those neighbors.— Carol, Neighboring Hearts
It started with a Bible study group. Just a few of us getting together on Tuesday nights. Nothing organized. We'd been meeting for a while when we read through Matthew 25 — the part about feeding the hungry and welcoming the stranger — and somebody asked the question out loud that we'd all been thinking. Are we actually doing this?
We started small. Bringing food to a family here, a bag of groceries there. Word got around the way it does in small communities. Pretty soon there were more families than we could handle on our own, and we knew we needed to do this right.
One of us has a niece — Amanda — who runs a nonprofit out in Colorado called Restoring Hearts Supporting Hands. We called her up and explained what we were trying to do. She helped us sort out the legal side of things, get set up properly, do it the right way. That's how Neighboring Hearts came to be. A Bible study group, a phone call, and a whole lot of neighbors who said yes.
We're still not very big. We're still figuring it out as we go. But we show up every week and we bring what we've got. That's enough to start.
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If your family needs food or a hand up, just reach out. No intake form. No appointment. No eligibility quiz. Send us an email and we'll figure out how to help.
We believe every family deserves a seat at the table. If you need one, there's a place for you.
✉ Reach Out NowNeighboring Hearts runs on neighbors. If you want to volunteer, donate food, give a little money, or just show up and help — we'd love to have you.
You don't have to be organized about it. Neither are we. Just reach out and we'll find a way to put good people to good work.
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Every door is open. Every family is welcome.