 thankful hearts was established by my dad back in 1984 and we moved on this hill here in 1998 and he passed away in 2000 this was his his go his ministry what we do is every Friday we do perishable food for Park and Floyd County or any of the surrounding counties whoever has the need they can come it's not like a regulated food for Park County but anyone can come on Fridays we distribute between 8 30 and 1 o'clock every Friday friendly around 500 families consider every Friday on the third Tuesday which is today we do USDA commodities which is not quite as many families that comes by but it's a governed food that has to be only given to people in Park County and they have to meet the USDA guidelines for their income and regulations and not to be able to go to like any of the agencies around the area that gives out the same item that they can only come here or go there whichever they choose thankful hearts is a desperate need for deep freezes right now because we get meat in and we have to keep it stored until the next giveaway I myself has rented a deep freeze which is costing me 70 dollars a month on my own pocket until I find a deep freeze and I'm trying to find a walk-in cooler if we can get one that would work as far as the kitchen wise anybody that has any furniture that maybe don't use a yard sale or a moving event there's families out there needs that they can bring it here Amber market has a building on the next level down they also have a AmeriCorps worker a Shasta that works here with them and tries to get the needs for the clients that's here as far as money was there's always needed money we're needing toys for kids we need anything that they can provide like coats gloves anything like that would be a major blessing for any of the projects that we've got going on they can send it to thankful hearts food pantry post office box one one eight raccoon Kentucky or through consent to the China blow disaster relief it's a 644 Adams Road pipe for Kentucky but to be able to do this I myself and worked at the hospital for 23 years I got my back broke I'm not physically able to lift patients or do lifting and things but it mentally helps me to get back to the community to do the things because I too were there with no income and didn't have no way didn't know which way to feed my kids when I got hurt but you never know what tomorrow holds a store but as long as the good Lord's here and we're blessing people it's a blessing to us