Angel Food Ministries is a non-profit, non denominational organization dedicated to providing food relief to communities throughout the USA.

A box of Angel Food can be purchased for $30.

Depending on your location, a box retails anywhere from $45 to $75 with an average retail value of right around $60.

An average box of food weighs around 21 lbs. The weight may differ each month. A box of food assists in feeding a family of four for about one week, or a single senior citizen for almost a month.

Because of Angel Foods involvement with only the best producers and venders our products are high quality, "name brand" foods - never "seconds" or "day old type" products. Each month’s food menu consists of both fresh and frozen items.

General Mills Empire Beef House of Raeford Chicken

Con Agra Food Prim Cut Meat & Seafood O.K. Foods

Midwest Premier Stampede Meat Fieldale Farms

Schans Bakery Topps Meat Sanderson Farm

Birdeseye T.J. Foods John Souls Foods

Pilgrams Pride Encor Foods McKee Foods

Tyson Southeastern Mills Allen Canning

Perdue Farms Noodles By Leonardo Kocks Foods

Jiffy Mix Dakota Growers Pasta U.S. Food Service

There is no limit on the number of boxes an individual or family may purchase. Angel Food Ministries also offers the purchase of one or more "Special Units" when buying a regular box of food. The "Specials" are mostly savings on meat boxes. (Special #1: 4lb. Steak Box or Special #2 8 - 8oz. Rib Eye Steaks for $20.00.)

There are no applications or qualifications, anyone can participate. Angel Food Ministries also participates in the U.S. Food Stamp Program, using the Off-Line Food stamp Voucher system. This ensures that the needy in your area are getting the maximum value for their grocery dollar, usually resulting in their receiving twice the amount of quality foods for their "food stamp dollar".

Food sales and distribution are handled by the local host sites. Most host sites are churches but other organizations such as The Salvation Army, VFW’s, and The Boy Scouts of America have participated.

Angel Food Ministries is growing rapidly. We hope to soon be able to serve the entire U.S.A. Please contact our offices and speak with our Ministry Development Department for further details.

Orders and payments are collected by each individual host site during the first part of each month. The orders are then phoned, faxed, or place through our web-site to Angel Foods main office on what we refer to as "Call in Monday".

During the next week, called "Distribution Week", Angel Food Ministries begin loading the trucks that are scheduled to arrive at the host sites on what we call "Distribution Saturday". Along with the many trucks that go out from our warehouse about 200 local host sites pick up their food Saturday morning from our facility in Monroe.

You may call our offices at 1-888-819-3745 or visit our website at www.angelfoodministries.com to request more information. Angel Food Headquarters will then send you a package in the mail with information, application and IRS W-9 Form you will need to apply.

The W-9 Form is used to identify the EIN – Employer Identification Number of your church, ministry or organization. The EIN will identify your organization’s non-profit status.

There is a onetime $50 application fee which covers all the training materials and start up costs. If for some reason your church or organization is not approved you will be refunded this fee. Once you become a host site Angel Food Ministries will donate $1 per regular unit purchased and $1 per Special Unit (non-holiday) ordered back to the host site church or organization’s benevolent fund. For example, if your church ordered 200 boxes and 5 Special units in a given month, the ministry would send your church a $205 check for that month.

You must receive a "Start up Package from Angel Food Ministries’ Headquarters. Training from your local state Minister of Outreach (state supervisor) is required before you place your first order. Application processing takes around 6 weeks once the required information is received at Angel Food Ministries Headquarters. Any questions pertaining to applications or the status of your application should be directed to our Customer Service Department at 770-267-7015 or 1-888-819-3745.

Your host site will need about one volunteer for every 10 to 12 units distributed.

Angel Food Ministries provides a delivery truck to a local "Drop Site". This site is a shared or common site for several host sites to come to and pick up their food and take it back to their locations. Local host sites need to provide transportation from the "Drop Site" back to their individual host site.

It depends on your location and the cost of getting transportation to your host site. Availability of parking lots to accommodate a full sized semi tractor and trailer, highway conditions, traffic flow and residential locations are evaluated. Contacting the Logistics Department at Angel Food Ministries can help you with this information.

Your host site may drive a transport vehicle to Monroe, GA and pick up their food order on Distribution Day. There is a savings of an additional $2 per box when your ministry picks the food up from Monroe, Georgia. This savings is in the form of a check and sent back to your host site. It is meant to help offset the cost of transportation. Transport vehicles must be clean and cannot carry livestock.

There is an initial supply of order receipt books and a training manual in your Start up Kit.

The JPMORGAN EPS Food Stamp Vouchers are included in your Start up Kit and instructions of their use are in the supplied AFM Training Manual.

Angel Food Ministries adds an extra unit which is called a PJ Add On (Pastor Joe Add On) to every order of 100 units purchased. The extra unit is to cover any shortages or damaged items that may occur during shipment. There are 17 to 18 items per unit and all items can be used to cover any shortages. You can also contact the Customer Service Department to discuss shortages.

Yes definitely, churches and organizations across the United States are able to reach out in a greater way through their participation with Angel Food Ministries. As a host church you will provide a practical, non-threatening, yet life giving way for even your most timid church members to touch others as they return to the church each month to receive their food. They will often return bringing friends and relatives, and the members of your church will be able to touch the visitors with the compassion of Jesus in a very real, genuine way.

Host site churches become known in their local areas because of their "heart" for others. Their congregation becomes transformed as their members’ work together as a compassionate army of inspired and motivated workers. Financial strain is lifted. Lives are touched.

Angel Food Ministries attempts to nourish both the body and spirit. Angel Food Ministries places a magazine called the Servant Magazine in each box of food. The magazine consists of articles on health advice, recipes, testimonies, Angel Food updates, the menu, and always a message of Salvation through Jesus Christ. Angel Food Ministries takes pride in the fact that their program crosses all denominational lines.

Angel Food Ministries requires that the Servant Magazine is included with each box of food distributed. Within the magazine is our salvation prayer – "Do You Know Jesus as Your Personal Lord and Savior". Host sites cannot exclude or replace this with other materials, unless pre-approved by headquarters. Angel Food Ministries encourages churches to put their name, address and phone number on the back of the magazine. Your host site church materials, such as church bulletins and other information, can also be passed out by hand as well during distribution.

Since January 1995, over 8.1 million families have been affected by Angel Food Ministries. In December of 2007 Angel Food Ministries distributed food to over 2.5 million people in one distribution. 547,000 boxes of food left our warehouse within a three day period, and we are still growing.

Angel Food Ministries has contributed over $9 million dollars into these benevolence funds over the last 13 years.

Angel Food Ministries has a network of more than 4,700 host sites. An army of over 45,000 volunteers distribute boxes of food each month. Each month AFM receives over 250 new host site applications.

We have a dual distribution each month except for November and December due to the holidays. The states are divided by Distribution A and Distribution B. A distribution schedule is available for host sites.

Angel Food Ministries distributes between 400,000 to 500,000 units per month.

Angel Food Ministries is currently in 34 states. To find a Host Site location, search our Host Site Locator on the Angel Food Ministries website at www.angelfoodministries.com.