Our Mission

Our mission is serving a weekly healthy hot meal to anyone who wants one. There are no income requirements, we care about serving the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual needs of all people in our community. We create an environment where everyone feels welcomed and loved and a part of our community. ​

Our Partership with Second Harvest

The Ministry of Beaver Dam Loaves & Fishes is dedicated to serving a meal to anyone who wants one. So where does the food come from? We utilize several different sources but the one source we rely on the most is Second Harvest Food Bank of Southwestern Wisconsin. When we started Loaves & Fishes, we filled out the application to be a partner with Second Harvest. The process also requires onsite visits and pest control reports. Second Harvest is dedicated to ending hunger and supplies food to over 300 partners in 16 Wisconsin Counties in Southern Wisconsin.

Second Harvest’s impact on our Ministry can not be stressed enough! In our 28 months in operation, we have received 79, 945 lbs. of food from Second Harvest and while not all of it is free the vast majority is. It is easy to see we would have a difficult time feeding meals to our community without the support of Second Harvest. We thank God for Second Harvest and the work they do to supply food to the many agencies addressing hunger/food insecurity in our communities!

Food Insecurity is a Real Problem.

The number of people that live in poverty in the City of Beaver Dam is 9% of households or 251 households living in poverty. We haven’t included the working poor.

If we include the working poor percentage of 27% of the households in Beaver Dam, this means an additional 753 households of our fellow Beaver Dam citizens are considered the working poor (ALICE).

We have 1,004 households that we would like to use our program. Our record households ever served in a night was 404 households. That is only 40% of the 1,004 households, and that doesn’t include all the households in the surrounding townships (rural areas).

See the below links for more information on poverty and ALICE.