Holiday Resource Guide
2025
This is a guide to resources available in the Abilene community for children and families this holiday season. This list is intended to be used and shared with everyone who may be in need! If you need additional assistance or have questions, please contact your campus Social Worker or school counselor. Resources may not be available closer to Christmas break.
Social Work Website (With Additional Resources): https://www.abileneisd.org/o/aisd/page/social-work
Events
HEB Feast of Sharing
https://newsroom.heb.com/heb-feast-of-sharing-calendar/
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
4pm-8pm
Abilene Convention Center
1100 N 6th St. Abilene, TX 79601
H-E-B Feast of Sharing is a series of festive gatherings that serve more than 340,000 meals at 34 dinners throughout Texas and Mexico. Filled with food, music, and good cheer, these free holiday feasts are open to the public and bring together family, friends and neighbors. Launched in 1989, H-E-B Feast of Sharing gives the company an opportunity to give thanks to its loyal customers and invites everyone to our holiday dinner table. In the more than three decades H-E-B has held the celebrations, more than 375,000 volunteers have helped serve nearly four million meals.
This initiative is an important part of H-E-B’s Hunger Relief Program, which works year-round to prevent hunger. Last year, H-E-B’s Hunger Relief Program donated 34 million pounds of food to families in need. Since 1982, the year the program was founded, H-E-B has donated more than 1 billion pounds of food to 5,500 non-profit organizations in Texas and Mexico.
Gifts
Salvation Army
Registration: October 6, 2025 6:00-8:00pm and October 7-10, 2025 9:00am - 1:00pm. Must bring ID card, birth certificate for each child 12 and under, one proof of government assistance or proof of income.
Phone: 352-677-1408
Address: 1726 Butternut St., Abilene, TX 79602
Website: https://www.salvationarmytexas.org/abileneprimary/
Hours: Monday – Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Salvation Army provides assistance with food, clothing, and emergency shelter.
Toys for Tots
Registration: October 1, 2025 - December 7, 2025
Phone: (325) 696-6890
Address: 220 2nd St., Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, TX 79607
Email: abilene.tx@toysfortots.org
Toys for Tots provides families in need with new, unwrapped toys and gifts for children ages 0-17. Families can register their children online for this program. Registration for this program ends December 7th.
Christian Service Center
Must make appointment for services
Phone: (325) 673-7531
Address: 3185 N. 10th St., Abilene, TX 79603
Email: jimclarkcsc@yahoo.com
Website: http://cscabilene.org/index.html
Hours: Monday-Friday: 9:00am-12:00pm, 1:00pm-4:00pm; First Saturday of each month: 9:00am-12:00pm
Christian Service Center offers a variety of basic needs services for families. Their programs include a food pantry, kitchen and household items, clothing for families, prayer and spiritual support, and financial assistance. During the holiday season they have a Christmas Room where they offer gifts and toys at reduced prices for families to purchase. Items based on availability.
Food
Baptist Social Ministries Food Pantry
Phone: 325-672-4193
Address: 618 S. Pioneer Dr., Abilene, TX 79605
Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Provides assistance with food, clothing, and household goods. Offers a box of perishable and non-perishable food items. Offers children's clothing and coats, fans, dishes, utensils, pots and pans, and toiletries are given when resources are available.
Beltway Park Church Food Pantry
Phone: 325-704-2329;
Address: 4009 Beltway S., Abilene TX 79606
Hours: Tues 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Thurs 9:00 am - 12:00 pm (Call ahead for appointment)
Provides assistance with food. Offers a box with perishable and non-perishable food items. Also gives hygiene and laundry items, when resources are available. Must call for appointments.
Christian Service Center
Phone: (325) 673-7531
Address: 3185 N. 10th St., Abilene, TX 79603
Email: jimclarkcsc@yahoo.com
Website: http://cscabilene.org/index.html
Must have appointment for all services, call Monday at 9:00am Hours of operation: Monday-Friday: 9:00am-12:00pm, 1:00pm-4:00pm; Closed the first Friday of each month; Open the first Saturday of each month: 9:00am-12:00pm
Christian Service Center offers a variety of basic needs services for families. Their programs include a food pantry, kitchen and household items, clothing for families, prayer and spiritual support, and financial assistance. During the holiday season they have a Christmas Room where they offer gifts and toys at reduced prices for families to purchase Christmas gifts and toys.
Faith Deliverance Community Church
Phone: 325-695-8654
Email: fdcc7@yahoo.com
Address: 5501 Hwy. 277 S., Abilene, TX 79606
Hours: Thursday's only from 10:00am to 2:00pm
Offers a food pantry that has a box of food with perishable and non-perishable foods; also household items, personal care and paper products as available.
Food Bank of West Central Texas
Phone: 325-695-6311
Address: Various locations around Abilene
https://fbwct.org/food-pantry-and-meal-site-schedules/
The Food Bank of West Central Texas provides food to local pantries and can assist with setting up SNAP benefits. For their full schedule and sites, please visit their webpage listed above.
Heavenly Rest Church
Phone: 325-677-2091
Address: 602 Meander St., Abilene, TX 79602
Hours: Friday 9:30 am - 11:30 am
Drive-thru pantry provides assistance with food.
Highland Food Pantry Center
Phone: 325-673-1234
Email: becky@highlandchurch.org
Address: 701 Walnut, Abilene, TX 79601
Hours: Mon 9:30 am - 12:00 pm, Thurs 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Fri 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Provides assistance with food year-round to members of the Abilene community.
Love and Care Ministries:
Phone: 325-670-0246
Email: tdavis65@gmail.com
Address: 233 Fannin St., Abilene, TX 79603
Hours: Mon - Thur 9:00 am - 11:30 am, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: open to the public; Fri 8:00 am - 12:00 pm: homeless only
Love and Care Ministries provide food, clothing, and hygiene products.
Presbyterian Food Pantry
Phone: 325-677-3501
Email: judypowell51@gmail.com
Address: 333 Orange St., Abilene, TX 79601
Hours: Tues 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Provides assistance with 5 days of food. Offers a box with perishables and non-perishable goods. Also offers hygiene products, household items (linens, cookware, dishes) and laundry detergent, when resources are available.
Sacred Heart Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry
Address: 1618 S. 9th St., Abilene, TX 79602
Hours: Mon 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Tues 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Provides assistance with a box of food. Those in need may come once per month.
Salvation Army
Phone: 352-677-1408
Address: 1726 Butternut St., Abilene, TX 79602
https://www.salvationarmytexas.org/abileneprimary/
Hours: Monday – Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Salvation Army provides assistance with food, clothing, and emergency shelter.
United Methodist Food Pantry
Phone: 325-864-6605
Email: umfood.pantry2626@gmail.com
Address: 2626 N 1st. St., Abilene, TX 79603
Hours: Tues 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm; Wed 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Provides assistance with a week's worth of food, such as perishable and non-perishable goods. Also offers incontinence supplies, diapers, and hygiene products.
Clothing
Baptist Social Ministries
Phone: 325-672-4193
Address: 618 S. Pioneer Dr., Abilene, TX 79605
Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Provides assistance with food, clothing, and household goods. Offers a box of perishable and non-perishable food items. Offers children's clothing and coats, fans, dishes, utensils, pots and pans, and toiletries are given when resources are available.
Christian Service Center
Phone: (325) 673-7531
Address: 3185 N. 10th St., Abilene, TX 79603
Email: jimclarkcsc@yahoo.com
Website: http://cscabilene.org/index.html
Hours: Monday-Friday: 9:00am-12:00pm, 1:00pm-4:00pm; First Saturday of each month: 9:00am-12:00pm
Christian Service Center offers a variety of basic needs services. Their programs include a food pantry, kitchen and household items, clothing for families, prayer and spiritual support, and financial assistance. During the holiday season they have a Christmas Room where they offer gifts and toys at reduced prices for families to purchase Christmas gifts and toys.
Love and Care Ministries:
Phone: 325-670-0246
Email: tdavis65@gmail.com
Address: 233 Fannin St., Abilene, TX 79603
Hours: Mon - Thur 9:00 am - 11:30 am, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: open to the public; Fri 8:00 am - 12:00 pm: homeless only
Love and Care Ministries provide food, clothing, and hygiene products.
Salvation Army
Phone: 352-677-1408
Address: 1726 Butternut St., Abilene, TX 79602
https://www.salvationarmytexas.org/abileneprimary/
Hours: Monday – Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Salvation Army provides assistance with food, clothing, and emergency shelter.