Our Partners and History

Love Our City is located in the heart of the Cully neighborhood, and has a long history of serving the community. In 1985 Parkrose Deliverance Tabernacle started the food pantry, and in 2018 Love City Church assumed leadership of this work. 


In 2020 the food pantry became a 501(c)(3) non profit organization and continued to provide food for thousands of families in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2024 the food pantry was named Love Our City, and continues the work that began forty one years ago.


Love Our City partners with local grocery stores, churches and non profit organizations to provide free groceries to people experiencing food insecurity.


Love Our City

In 2017 Pastor Seth and Kaz Brooks started Love City Church (formerly C3 Church) in the Concordia neighborhood, and the following year moved into the nearby Cully neighborhood of Northeast Portland, Oregon. In 2018 the church assumed leadership and day-to-day management of the existing food pantry at the church location on NE Lombard Street. 


At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the food pantry significantly expanded its capacity. At this time to food pantry was registered as a 501(c)(3) non profit organization and was later renamed as Love Our City. Kaz Brooks was appointed as Executive Director in July 2021. There is  now committed team of over 70 volunteers who have a passion to serve and support their community. 

Our Service Delivery

Love Our City expanded its capacity in March 2020 from a shopping style food pantry to a walk up and drive through and pick up system of serving food to people in need. We provide food boxes at no cost to over 600 households a month. 


Every day of the week volunteers pick up food rescue from local grocery stores using their personal vehicles. The food is sorted and stored at the pantry, and once a week volunteers assemble and distribute the food boxes using Oregon Food Bank food and grocery store rescue food. Then, the process of restocking the pantry begins again. It takes approximately five days to restock the pantry with donations for the next food box distribution.  To learn more about the organizations that provide us with in-kind food and other donations, visit our Impact page.


In addition to meeting the urgent food needs of our neighbors, Love Our City works to build community solutions and partnerships to ensure people have access to food and other resource and support they might need.

Who We Serve

Many of the individuals and families we serve come once or twice to our pantry, when experiencing urgent and sometimes devastating emergencies. Others have been coming regularly for years due to a perpetual lack of resources. Love Our City exists to meet the urgent food needs of our neighbors. We do not have geographic limitations and we serve people from the Portland metro area, the tri-county region of northwest Oregon, and southwest Washington. 


We serve:

  • Low income families with children
  • The unemployed and underemployed
  • The houseless
  • People with disabilities and the elderly
  • Immigrants and refugees
  • People experiencing crisis