Food, Faith and Fellowship

Food, Faith and Fellowship

Parson Cross, Sheffield: 18 languages uniting through food

Parson Cross Initiative (PXI) is a charity that runs from Mount Tabor Methodist Church in Sheffield. It hosts a wide range of activities throughout the week and across the year.

Pioneer minister Nick Waterfield says: “We’ve always seen food, faith and fellowship as sitting alongside each other, and around the table.

“From our lunchtime soups and sandwiches, to cooking on the community allotment, or community celebrations we share together, food is important. At its heart we see sharing food being about relationships and as a key to building social justice.

“Before the Covid pandemic we ran an independent food bank which helped a regular 100 households each week, during the pandemic we made a decision as Trustees to “come back different” and we did. We had worked alongside a Trussel foodbank during Covid and we left the foodbank business to them afterwards, turning instead to a more community pantry model of offering food for people, offering more agency and involvement from those accessing it.

To read the full story click here  (Church Action on Poverty).