Food Shelf

Providing support for our local food shelf is an active mission of First Lutheran church. Individually our members provide direct financial support as well as providing support in terms of food goods.  One member of our congregation serve on the board of the Falls Hunger Coalition.In addition we work as a mutual ministry team to provide food donations during two seasons per year.  Starting a week before Thanksgiving through New Years,  this team creates $5.00 bags of needed items at our local grocery store.  As those bags are bought by customers, we take them to our local food shelf.  In March, which is food share month, we do the same thing with the emphasis being on pounds of food given because it allows the food shelf to leverage their dollars of the coop they buy from .In July 2011, we also set up a table at one of our grocery stores manned by member of 5 local churches to take monetary donations.Because we see such a great need for this we are always looking for new ideas that would work in our community.

Community Cafe

Ruby's Pantry

First Lutheran volunteers on the first Tuesday and Thursday of each month to serve a free meal to anyone. Located at Backus Community Building 5pm – 7pm.

Ruby's Pantry is held on the second Monday of the month.

Blood Drive

First Lutheran hosts an annual blood drive in April for Memorial Blood Centers.  We have hosted this mobile blood drive as an outreach mission for 13 years.  Memorial Blood Centers is the primary supplier of blood for over 30 hospitals in Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin.