Feel Good Friday – 11/21/25

It’s Feel Good Friday once again at Helping Hands at First English! (Is it just me or is time speeding up…?😳😳😳) Just a little reminder that, in addition to: Feeding our neighbors (40 tons of food just from the GFCFB alone this year)… Connecting neighbors to other resources and helping agencies (Looking at you, amazing … [Read more…]

Feel Good Friday – 11/14/25

It’s Feel Good Friday at Helping Hands at First English. I want to talk to you about HOPE. Due to our current administration’s decision to shut down SNAP, we served 571 guests last weekend. That’s almost 100 more than our prior record, set during the pandemic. Here’s where the hope comes in…This little grass-roots pantry … [Read more…]

Record-Breaking Day

Saturday was a record-breaking day at Helping Hands at First English. We served 571 neighbors, breaking our last record from the Covid days by about 100. When someone who is in need comes to Helping Hands, we feed them. We do not turn them away. I was shocked this week when another feeding organization in … [Read more…]