Northside Community Church has a passion to stand in the gap for those in need. We launched Feed Newberg Community Kitchen to take care of people: body and soul. While collaborating with the Community Wellness Collective to host a temporary emergency shelter, we identified a greater need for access to food and food services. Newberg churches offer 5 nights a week where anyone can get dinner. Feed Newberg Community Kitchen wants to create a place where belonging and dignity are fostered. It’s just as important to serve as it is to be served and our community kitchen will offer these core beliefs. We will start by offering Friday-Sunday evening meals since the weekends are the current need for access to food.

We have been blown away at the enormous support of local businesses like Ken and Daughters Jewelers, Carey’s Custom Woodworking, Barley and Vine, Oregon Community Funds, The Austin Foundation, Early Bird Rotary, Distinction Communication, Level Up, American Family ins., Coffee Cat, Kiwanis, Intent Coffee Roasting, Newberg Woodworks LLC, Newberg Presbyterian and many other local community groups who have supported this vision.

One of our goals is to bring the Providence Milwaukie Teaching Kitchen to Newberg so we can begin offering culinary medicine to our community. We plan to get our kitchen a commercial use license and even more can be offered through our kitchen. Local food carts/chefs can rent our space for events as well as Providence being able to rent the space for their culinary medicine classes. We are so excited about how much collaboration and partnerships we have been making in efforts to offer so much more than just a kitchen to our community. Visit feednewberg.com for more information.