Food Insecurity Programs

Food Pantry & Open Table

Food Pantry: Mondays and Wednesdays at 11:00am-12:30pm                  

The Open Table: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and     Saturdays at 11:00am-12:30pm. On the 3rd and 4th Thursdays at 6:30pm-7:30pm.   

These two programs provided nearly 300,000 meals in 2025. Anyone living in the City of Chester can receive bagged food from our pantry. The Food Pantry offers enough bagged groceries for each family member to have three meals a day for six days. Emergency Food is also provided to anyone who expresses a need, regardless of income. Our Open Table program serves hot and nutritious meals to anyone who is in need.

Two white women are leaning against each other and smiling. Three foil covered pans are on a surface in front of them.
Two women wearing aprons, one Black, one white and wearing a medical mask, are both pointing at a foil covered pan of food on a table.

The Open Closet

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00am-12:30am FREE

Anyone living in the City of Chester can help themselves to the donated clothes and all types of household items. Guests also have access to diapers, formula, household items, personal hygiene products, books, toys, games, and more! 

The Open Closet is located on the ground floor of St. Paul’s Church and operates before the Open Table begins on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

As of January 2026, our clothes are available at all times as we leave them in the front room so guests can help themselves to clothes any time they are in the building.