Elijah’s Promise in New Brunswick NJ feeding more hungry than ever

With high inflation and unprecedented levels of food insecurity, particularly among seniors and families, Elijah’s Promise needs support more than ever.

“Need is up and donations are down,” said Executive Director Michelle Wilson.

But as always, Elijah’s Promise is hopeful. There is power in food − it changes lives, Wilson said.

Elijah’s Promise uses that power of food every day in its soup kitchen, job training curriculum, community garden programming, social services assistance, community-focused nutrition classes, social enterprise food businesses, and community food systems advocacy.

Elijah’s Promise now serves more than 400,000 free meals a year throughout Central Jersey.

While it continues to see “huge numbers at the soup kitchen” located at 18 Neilson St. in New Brunswick, the emergency meals program has expanded so rapidly that the nonprofit is utilizing both its locations to make meals. With the new mobile food truck program − Elijah’s Promise on Wheels − the nonprofit also serves more than 2,500 meals monthly to highly food insecure neighbors who can’t get to the community soup kitchen.