Our Partners and History

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


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


Love Our City partners with local grocery stores, churches and other non-profit organizations to provide reliable access to groceries, fresh produce, pet food and fresh flowers at no cost to people experiencing food insecurity.


We Love Our City

In 2017 Pastor Seth and Kaz Brooks started Love City Church (formerly C3 Church) in Northeast Portland, Oregon. In 2018 the church assumed leadership and day-to-day management of the existing food pantry work and property, which was located next to the church building 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 the 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 80+ volunteers who have a passion to serve and provide food support to the 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 experiencing food insecurity. Food boxes are provided at no cost to over 900 households a month. 


Every day of the week volunteers pick up food, pet food and fresh flowers donated from local grocery stores, small businesses and other nonprofit organizations. The food is sorted and stored at the pantry building, and volunteers assemble and distribute the food boxes to the community. 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.


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 resources and support they might need.

Who We Serve

Many of the individuals and families we serve come once or twice to Love Our City, 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
  • Expectant and new mothers
  • Families of children in hospital