Ravenswood Community Services (RCS)
Ravenswood Community Services (RCS) is the food pantry and community kitchen at All Saints’ Church. Our Tuesday night gathering of neighbors is the cornerstone of the church's effort to create a volunteer corps whose prayer is to build community while serving the needs of residents in Chicago's Ravenswood and Uptown neighborhoods. People who live side by side as strangers will both recognize and realize their potential to be just neighbors. Our primary focus is hunger and poverty relief. In 2005, RCS served 17,112 hot meals and distributed 25,668 bags of groceries, amounting to over 122,400 pounds of food.
RCS is an agency of Episcopal Charities and Community Services.
Come join us on Tuesday nights. To learn more visit the RCS website.
Community Night
It's Tuesday night - what's with the light, the music, the food, the running feet & the crowd gathered around the parish hall? Welcome to Community night. Every week members of the congregation, folks from the neighborhood, and patrons of our food pantry gather for companionship, a light meal, and a bag of groceries. Someone plays the piano, we share the stories of the last week, pack groceries, serve a hot meal, laugh and cry, and come together to create a life sustaining community.
[Photo in memory of Virgil]
Food Pantry
Each week we pack a full bag of groceries for neighbors in any kind of need. No requirements for neighbors or volunteers beyond showing up with open hands.
We simply feed people. We strive for a good meal and some basic necessities in each bag: canned meat & fish, cereal, peanut butter, shampoo, bread (often fresh bakery bread!), fruit juice, paper products or other hard-to-get items. The work of our pantry is supported by the time and donations of volunteers from the parish & community, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, and funded by contributions from individuals, the parish, the Ravenswood Healthcare Foundation and Chicago Community Trust.
Community Kitchen
Every Tuesday night, we offer a hot meal to anyone who would like to join us for food, conversation and community.
Door opens at 5:30pm (1757 W Wilson).
