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Angel Food Ministries
Angel food ministries is an non-profit organization that provides a monthly food service to over 500,000 families. Angel Food ministries is a nondenominational program located in 43 states across the United States of America and the District of Columbia with an altogether total of 5,200 locations. The headquarters is located in a 16,000 square foot warehouse in Monroe, GA. They have 220 full-time employees and 500 temp workers. The program buys in bulk at discount price and then sells the food in family sized quantities, while spreading the word of Christ. The food ministry has delivered $120 million in through food assistance and nourished over 22 million Americans. Angel Food’s mission is the promise of fresh food and great value nutrition.

Founders
Joe and Linda Wingo founded Angel Food Ministries in 1994 in Monroe, GA.]]. They started the half charity and half business to help 34 families struggling financially by dispensing 34 boxes off the back porch of his home when numerous industrial plants closed in their community. Joe Wingo is a pastor at a local church the Emmanuel Praise Center in Monroe, GA.

Boxes
Angel food each month creates a medium sized box of food for that half of what it would cost to purchase at a grocery store. The boxes can be ordered online or through the churches that the boxes are picked up at once a month. The food items in the box change from month to month with a wide variety of meat, vegetables, and fruits; in each box comes the spread of upright news of the word of Christ. They are specialty boxes that can be ordered such as diabetic, steak and chicken, after-school, fresh produce and prepackaged heat and serve meals. Each box contains enough food to last a family of four for about a week and a senior citizen about a month. The boxes range from twenty four dollars to forty one dollars, but on average are around thirty dollars. The boxes can also be purchased with food stamps with Angel Food Ministries working with the USDA. There is no set amount on how many boxes that can be ordered, nor is it based on income. There are no applications or qualifications needed to be able to purchase a box.

Similar Programs
The program is available in Kenosha through New Hope Ministries. In Wetosha, the SHARE program- Self Help and Resource Exchange that is similar to that of Angel Food Ministries.