Our Mission is to provide needy residents in Milwaukee County with healthy, nutritious food. We believe that feeding the hungry is not only our responsibility as Christians, it is a basic human instinct to help those who are less fortunate. We provide our services in the Marcia P. Coggs Human Services Center on W. Vliet Street, in the same building where food stamps are distributed. Our services are provided only to those who are delayed or denied acquiring food stamps. We are a member of the Milwaukee Food Pantry Network and have partnership agreements with Hunger Task Force and Second Harvest. Friedens Community Ministries was founded as Friedens Inner City Ministries in 1987. For more information on the history of Friedens, click here.
Location - Friedens operates out of the Marcia P. Coggs Human Services Center at 1220 West Vliet Street in Milwaukee (N. 12th St and Vliet). Click here to see us in Google Maps.
Operating Hours - Friedens’ operating hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. till 4 p.m. Customers are welcome to come anytime with a referral from their food stamp case manager. Our menu changes regularly, depending upon the various foods donated and provided to us from the federal government. Please see our services page for more information about our current offerings.
Contact Information / Volunteering - please see the about us page for how to contact us or volunteer.
About our Name - In German, "frieden" means peace. Our name indicates that this is a place of peace, to which the operation owes its allegiance. As former Friedens' Pastor Ed Stanford proclaimed at a volunteer appreciation dinner:
"Resolute in our belief that there is no peace without justice, we have, through the years, maintained our commitment to never quit this pantry as long as it is needed. With the hard work of the volunteers and the Board, both this commitment and the spirit of the Friedens Congregation assembled many years ago at 13th and Juneau lives on."