Welcome to our organization

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Friends In Service To Humanity

People who are in need of food and unable to satisfy their own needs because of disabilities, job loss, divorce or various temporary emergencies will receive assistance. A balanced diet of food will be presented to recipients as the foods become available or can be purchased.

A BRIEF HISTORY

FISH began operation as a food bank in Ellensburg, WA, on April 5, 1971. During its first years FISH provided a variety of services and food to an estimated 500 people each year. Most recently, however, it served 11,437 needy people in all of 2007 and 1,486 in the month of December, 2009. Clearly, food needs continue to increase in the Ellensburg area. FISH exists as an autonomous program organized by local churches and works with HopeSource to identify and assist the hungry in Kittitas County. FISH is guided by a Board of Directors, run by a program director, and manned by over 60 community volunteers. FISH accepts food and funds from local stores, churches, and individual donors.

F.I.S.H. is sponsored by 14 local churches whose representatives make up the Food Bank’s Board of Directors. There are five BOD executive officers and a food bank Program Director:

President: Jean Cutlip
Vice-President: Herb Miller
Recording Secretary: Peg Coble
Corresponding Secretary: Karen Gookin
Treasurer: Karen Martinis
Fund Drive Chair: Bill Barber

Program Director: Roger McCune 312-9056

*Calvary Baptist Church 840 Cowboy Lane, Ellensburg

*Chestnut Street Baptist Church 609 North Chestnut, Ellensburg

*Wellspring Christian Fellowship 306 North Sprague, Ellensburg

*First Christian Church 600 North Ruby, Ellensburg

*First Lutheran Church 512 North Ruby, Ellensburg

*First Presbyterian Church 1307 East Third Street, Ellensburg

*First United Methodist Church 210 North Ruby, Ellensburg

*Grace Episcopal Church 1201 North B, Ellensburg

*Great Roundup Covenant Church Ellensburg

*Mercer Creek Church (former C&MA) 1407 North B, Ellensburg

*St. Andrew’s Catholic Church 401 South Willow, Ellensburg

*Seventh Day Adventist 415 West Fourteenth Street, Ellensburg

*Thorp Community Church 150 First Street, Thorp

*Increase International Christian Church Ellensburg