Edwards Street Fellowship Center

06/07/2026

🫐 Calling all blueberry pickers!🫐 The rain has our bushes loaded with berries. We need volunteers to come on weekdays in June & early July to pick berries so we can get the healthy fruit into our food pantry bags.

The incredible volunteers in these photos picked more than 35 pounds last week! 👏 To schedule a time to help, reach out to us at 601-544-6149 or [email protected]. 💙💙💙

06/03/2026

Thanks for {calling} on us today with a donation of 185 pounds of food, Maximus Call Center! Your generosity makes a difference!🥫❤️🥫❤️

06/01/2026

We're so grateful for the incredible generosity of Seeds of Hope, providing TONS of fresh corn and potatoes to feeding programs across the Pine Belt every summer! They're looking for help harvesting crops in the weeks ahead. Round up your family, church group, Scout troop, coworkers, and friends for a meaningful morning of service. Contact Seeds of Hope at (601) 517-8404 to volunteer. 💚🌽💚🌽💚

Seeds of Hope is growing a new crop of corn and potatoes to donate to food pantries across South Mississippi.

05/28/2026

Such a 🐾paws-itively🐾 great birthday party for Kohen & Krosby!

The boys & their party guests packaged 42 bags of dog food for our pet food bank, providing lots of reasons for our food pantry families’ pups to wag with delight! 🐶

“All things bright & beautiful
All creatures great & small,
All things wise & wondrous,
The Lord God made them all.”
— Cecil Frances Alexander

05/22/2026

05/19/2026

Everything is blooming at Edwards Street! Our daylilies are showing out & the blueberries are ripening!

Berry-pickin’ season runs from later this week through early July. These blueberries are such a delicious, nutritious treat for our food pantry clients!

To schedule some weekday outdoor volunteer time (picking berries or weeding the flowerbed), contact us at [email protected] or 601-544-6149! ☀️ 🫐 💐

05/12/2026

Pine Belt, you showed up big-time to help in our area!

👏 THANK YOU, neighbors, for donating 1️⃣6️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ pounds of food to help hungry children & adults in our community!

📫 THANK YOU, letter carriers, for picking up all that heavy food while running your mail delivery route!

🛍️ THANK YOU, Community Bank, for providing the food collection bags!

Because of each of you, there’s more nutritious food on the shelves of Christian Services, Inc., Edwards Street Fellowship Center, Petal Children's Task Force, The Salvation Army of Hattiesburg, & South Forrest County Food Pantry!

❤️🥫❤️🥫❤️

“Feed the hungry & help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness & the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.” — Isaiah 58:10

05/09/2026

TODAY IS THE DAY!! It’s so easy to make a difference for hungry neighbors!

🥫 Fill a bag with nonperishable food (canned veggies, pasta, cereal, rice, etc.)!

📫 Leave the bag by your mailbox this morning!

🚐 Your letter carrier will get it to local feeding agencies!

❤️ Fill a bag, feed a family!

05/08/2026

With the perfect blend of ☀️, 🌧️ , 💪 & 🙏, we have our first harvest of the season from our garden: beautiful zucchini & yellow squash! Big thanks to volunteers Jason Wesley & Bill Russell for investing their time & energy to grow nutritious veggies for our food pantry! ❤️

05/07/2026

Stamp Out Hunger is THIS SATURDAY!!

What a great kickoff with Mayor Toby Barker proclaiming May 9, 2026, “Stamp Out Hunger Day” in Hattiesburg. Petal Mayor Tony Ducker & Forrest County Board of Supervisors President Terri Bell also endorsed this food drive benefiting Christian Services, Edwards Street, Petal Children’s Task Force, Salvation Army Hattiesburg, & South Forrest County Food Pantry.

Check your mailbox for a blue Community Bank collection bag. 👀 Fill the bag with canned goods, then leave it by your mailbox Saturday for your mail carrier to pick up!

Fill a bag. Feed a family. ❤️🥫❤️🥫