Seniors, Veterans, and the Neighbors a Pantry Cannot Reach
A food pantry only works if you can get to it. For a meaningful number of households in Concord, that sentence is the entire problem. The food exists, the pantry is open, and the distance in between might as well be a wall.
The Barrier Nobody Budgets For
Transportation is rarely the line item anyone plans around when they set up a food program. Shelves get stocked. Hours get posted. Volunteers get scheduled. Then someone calls and explains that she has not been able to leave her apartment in three weeks, and the design has a hole in it that no amount of donated food will fill.
Who It Reaches
Solo Faith Church's delivery program was built with three groups of Cabarrus County neighbors specifically in mind:
Seniors, for whom a two-mile trip can be genuinely out of reach on a given week
Veterans, including those managing mobility limits that make a pantry visit hard to plan around
Families without dependable transportation, where a car may exist but does not always start, or is shared across three working adults
What the Church Did About It
Pastor Douglas Lattimore started the program last year and routed the deliveries through DoorDash drivers. Volunteers pack boxes at the church, drivers collect them, and the groceries arrive at the door. Around 160 households receive them each month, and none of those households has to wait in a line.
Love your neighbor as yourself, and that's kind of our thing. And so, we got the opportunity to do that with food, then we wanted to make it as accessible as possible.
Accessible is the operative word. This is not a pantry that added a delivery option at the edges. The delivery is the point of it, and the building is where the boxes happen to be packed.
How Far the Route Goes Next
Organizers plan to expand the program. Because local sponsors fund it, how far the route reaches next year is a direct function of how many sponsors come on board this year. The church's working figure is that ten dollars covers one household delivery, which makes sponsorship unusually easy to picture: a sponsor is not funding an abstraction, they are funding a specific box arriving at a specific door.
If You Need a Delivery, or Know Someone Who Does
Solo Faith Church is at 587 Old Charlotte Rd SW, Concord, NC 28027, though reaching the building is not a requirement. Requests go through Solo Faith Church online, with no paperwork and no income test. If you are calling on behalf of an older neighbor or a relative who would not ask for themselves, that is welcome too.
The program's reach and the populations it serves were described in regional coverage published August 18, 2026 by Charlotte Newsroom, and carried by Country 103.7 and Kiss 95.1. Sponsorships are handled through the Solo Faith Church giving page.
Solo Faith Church highlights this part of the program because a senior who cannot reach a pantry is not a figure in a county report. She is someone's mother, two streets over, who has been eating less this week than last. Cabarrus County has neighbors in that position right now, and a congregation that can drive to them has no good reason not to.
Solo Faith Church Is Here for the Whole Community
Whether you need food delivery, a listening ear, or a community to belong to, Solo Faith Church is here. Free food delivery through DoorDash. Worship gatherings Saturday and Sunday at 1:00 PM. No judgment, no paperwork. Learn more here.
Community Support Note: Solo Faith Church shares these stories as part of an ongoing effort to document food access across Concord and Cabarrus County. The served populations, monthly household figure, and quotations above were taken from syndicated press coverage dated August 18, 2026 that ran on Charlotte Newsroom, Country 103.7, and Kiss 95.1, crediting WSOC-TV as the source report. This post was written from that published coverage, not from separate interviews conducted by the church.
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