Because DMARC is committed to providing food to 14 partner pantry sites at no cost, they rely on support from generous contributors. Financial contributions are used to buy food at wholesale while donated food items are sorted, repackaged and then given to the pantry sites. You can make your donations to support DMARC through our church by clicking the button for online giving, or by mailing a check to Polk City UMC with "DMARC Food Pantry" in the memo line.

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UPDATES FROM OUR DMARC CONGREGATIONAL DELEGATE

​​CAN I GIVE YOU A HUG?

This title was spoken by a food pantry visitor who was getting help for her family and son's family. DMARC wishes to continue and extend this feeling out to all of you who have helped them to feed the hungry this year. Times are weighing heavier now with winter and higher heating bills and higher grocery and gas costs leading to a great amount of turmoil for those challenged over the Holiday Season.
+MONEY IS THE NUMBER ONE DONATION APPRECIATED

+last year DMARC served 58,700 people in need

+from 2008 to 2020, pantry visits have doubled to 214,055 from 104,280

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The Des Moines Area Religious Council(DMARC) Food Pantry Warehouse has exciting news, via The Des Moines Register, in these changing times that we are all experiencing. 

DMARC IS MOVING IN 2022

+The organization is relocating its headquarters with a new triple size warehouse under construction at 100 Army Post Road, Des Moines (completion early 2022) /addition of an extra giant cooler and freezer/addition of a new south side food pantry(Bidwell Riverside, presently, is the only south side pantry and the busiest of DMARC's 14 pantries)/ they will have much needed room for larger donations and food rescues

+There has been an 80% increase in people served through the network of 14 pantries and 30 Mobile Pantries, last year alone 59,000 individuals were served

+Why the change? DMARC is setting up to meet the present and future challenging food supplies for many hungry children, seniors and families

+"Food Today, Change Tomorrow" capital campaign is launched now to raise $5.6 million($1.5 million raised presently plus the future sale of the exiting DMARC- 1435 Mulberry Des Moines)

How can we help? One in 5 children and 1 in eight adults go hungry everyday in Polk County. 40,000 people in Polk County are hunger challenged . October through December now and after the Holidays families are faced with winter  heating billls, mortgages and unexpected illnesses and pantry uses increase.

DMARC APPRECIATES MONEY AS THEIR NUMBER 0NE DONATION. They can buy 2 to 6 times more with our money than we can.

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​If you wish to donate to DMARC, please visit our church website polkcityumc.org/give.

To give through your mobile device, download our NEW Vanco Mobile Giving App. (If you have donated on the GivePlus app previously, log-in and recurring gifts transfer over.) Go to the App Store or Google Play and download Vanco Mobile for free. Search for our church by name and select your gift amount, fund and frequency, enter your payment method, choose whether you want to cover processing fees and click submit to donate.

If you wish to write a check, please make it out to Polk City United Methodist Church with "DMARC Food Pantry" in the memo and drop in the offering plate or mail to Polk City United Methodist Church, 1421 West Broadway. Polk City , Iowa 50226, attention: Finance Secretary. 

Also, whenever you are buying from Amazon please check out Amazon Smiles and consider DMARC for donations. 

Any questions? please contact Linda Pennington, DMARC Delegate penningtonlinda30@gmail.com