Families Helping Families, now known as Families Helping Families Ministries, Inc.

Started in a Sunday school room in Stockbridge, GA, with a vision to care for the hungry and afflicted and share the love of Christ with the community around us. What started as a Food Pantry only, has grown into 3 ministry areas serving individuals and other ministries.

2024
  • As we start a new year, please keep the ministry in your prayers. We look forward to serving God and serving people.
2023
  • This year we added the Love Ministry Garden to our ministry.  The Love Ministry Garden grows food and vegetables and provides them to food pantries in our local area.
  • FHF Food Bank continued to serve our partner ministries by providing perishable and non-perishable food items, toiletries, paper products and cleaning supplies.
  • FHF Food Pantry closed on January 31 at our Stockbridge, GA location.  We are actively looking for a new location to reopen the Food Pantry.  Since then, we have been serving a small group of people weekly from a temporary location.  2,263 clients served this year.
  • FHF Ministries received over 2 million in in-kind donations this year which were used in our three ministry areas, FHF Food Pantry, FHF Food Bank and Love Ministry Garden.
2022
  • Families Helping Families Ministries, Inc. received it’s 501(c)(3) non-profit status from the IRS.
  • FHF Ministries purchased a 3rd refrigerated semi-trailer.
  • FHF Ministries reorganized into 2 ministry areas:
    • FHF Food Pantry –> Serving individuals
    • FHF Food Bank –> Serving other ministries
  • 12,855 clients were served this year.
2021
  • As we continued to provide for the needs of the community, in November we changed back to the pre-pandemic way of operating and allowed clients back into the buildings.
  • 9,995 clients were served this year.
2020
  • The COVID-19 pandemic forced FHF to change the way we operate. We continued to provide for the needs of the community and did not close. Clients stayed in their vehicles while we loaded their groceries into their trunks.
  • 2nd refrigerated semi-trailer purchased to run 24-7 as a dedicated freezer.
  • 11,813 clients served this year.
2019
  • FHF purchased a semi-truck and refrigerated trailer to pick up donations.
  • 10,225 clients were served this year.
2018
  • Families Helping Families Ministries, Inc. became Georgia corporation.
  • 9,940 clients were served this year.
2017
  • FHF purchased and a installed a 15′ x 20′ walk-in-cooler which can hold 16 pallets of product.
  • FHF also purchased a 2nd refrigerated truck.
  • 5,143 clients were served this year.
2016
  • FHF purchased our first refrigerated truck.  Before this we used a pickup truck and trailer to pick up donations.
  • FHF, out our abundance, we were able to start sharing products with other ministries.
  • 3,423 clients were served this year.
2015
  • FHF started weekly food distributions.  The Lord provided a double wide trailer for the ministry to operate out of.  We spent 2 months remodeling it and in October we moved into this new building.
  • 2,188 clients were served this year.
2013
  • Families Helping Families (FHF) was born.
  • We started in Stockbridge, GA and operated out of a Sunday school room distributing food occasionally when food became available.
  • FHF is a faith based ministry taking care of the hungry and afflicted per the Lord’s commandments.