MasterKey Ministries Food Assistance program is dedicated to ensuring food security to community members in need. Services rendered include the mobile pantry and the client choice pantry.
- Drive-through Distribution– Fridays. Available to Grayson county residents, the distribution offers a variety of canned goods and fresh produce to neighbors at Harvest Time Church. Neighbors are invited to wait in their vehicles.Distributions occur on a first come first serve basis.
- Drive-through Distribution– Saturdays. Available to Sherman residents, the distributions offers a wide variety of canned goods, non-perishables, frozen goods, and high quality proteins to participating neighbors at MasterKey Ministries.
Hours of operation
Drive-Through Distribution ― Friday from 8:00 am to 11:30 am, Harvest Time Church
Drive-Through Distribution ― Saturday from 8:00 am to 11:30 am., MasterKey Ministries main location.
Covid-19 Update
As a result of the coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, we are working diligently to prioritize the health of our neighbors and staff. As a result, the food assistance program has been slightly modified. Masterkey Ministries has been designated a disaster distribution site by the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) and we serve anyone in need, regardless of residence or income. The mobile pantry has adopted a no touch, driveby system. Upon arrival, clients will be asked for their city of residence and household size for our tracking purposes. Clients may pick up for multiple households. The client choice pathway has also adopted a driveby system. Clients receive three units of food: a disaster family box, a produce box, and a perishable box.
“If not for MasterKey and other organizations I am unable to buy groceries… it’s a blessing to have a group that helps us with what we need!” -Sherry
“Every little bit helps. The sense of community is such a blessing” -Kim
“We’re eating a lot healthier. Lots of fruits and vegetables” -Pat/Kathy
Volunteer Opportunities
- Storage organization: Sort cans at the storage building. Volunteer groups are greatly needed at this time.
- Stocking:Help stock the pantry shelves for Saturday distribution. Takes place Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30 am―1:30 pm
- Food drop off:Pick up the ordered food from North Texas Food Bank drop off and take it over to MasterKey Ministries and put it in storage.
- Client choice pantry:Help with a variety of jobs including signing people in, serving refreshments, taking people through the pantry, computer work, paper work, praying for people, stocking, and cleaning up. Men, women, teens, children 10 and up preferred.
- Mobile pantry:Distribute fresh produce to Grayson County residents in a series of jobs. Duties include unloading truck, bagging produce, working on the computer, helping in the kitchen serving refreshments, signing people in, and clean up. Men, women, teens, and child volunteers are welcome.
- Retail pickup:Drive to retail stores, pick up the food and drive the food back to our pantry and unload.
- Other duties:Miscellaneous volunteer opportunities are also available! Jobs include pantry clean up, grant writing, organizing fundraisers, talking to businesses about organizing their employees to volunteer and supporting us, acquiring food, helping with food drives, and picking up food from our storage and bringing it to the pantry.