Press Releases - Angel Food Ministries

Angel Food Ministries’ Expands Food Relief Services
Alaska Residents to Benefit from Angel Food’s Family Assistance Program

Wasilla, Alaska (August 04 , 2009) - Angel Food Ministries (www.angelfoodministries.com), an organization dedicated to providing affordable, high-quality food to those in need, is proud to announce the expansion of services to the Wasilla, Alaska region. When the Angel Food’s food relief program makes trek from Seattle into Alaska to the Wasilla host site, it will no doubt be extremely well received as Wasilla residents now actively ordering online for a minimum of 1200 boxes for their very first order!

Distractions Will Not Keep Angel Food Ministries from its Mission"
Lawsuit Response Filed in Response to Call for Hearing

Monday, April 20, 2009 – Monroe, GA: At a hearing held on March 6, 2009, in the Superior Court of Walton County, Angel Food Ministries and the plaintiffs, Craig Atnip and David (Tony) Prather, entered into an agreement to settle the case brought to bear on the Ministry. It was the understanding of Angel Food Ministries that this agreement was a full and final resolution of the lawsuit and it was clearly understood and agreed upon then by Atnip and Prather that this agreement would be the final resolution as well.

Angel Food Ministries Statement on FBI Probe and Lawsuit

Monday, March 30, 2009 – Monroe, GA: To adequately address the issue of an open FBI investigation and a lawsuit filed by two Angel Food Ministries board members, we stand firm that Angel Food Ministries has done nothing wrong.

Angel Food Ministries Continues to Serve and Hits March Peak
Record March Numbers Show Need is Climbing as Food Costs Rise Amidst Economic Slump

March 20, 2009, Monroe, GA: Angel Food Ministries (www.angelfoodministries.com), an organization dedicated to providing affordable, high quality food to those in need, achieved its highest ever March distribution with 560,000 boxes distributed, and only second highest distribution numbers in its history, indicating further the growing need for affordable, quality food.

Lawsuit Dismissed – Joe Wingo Remains CEO of Angel Food Ministries

March 6, 2009, Monroe, GA: A lawsuit filed last Friday in the Walton County Superior Court by two former board members of Angel Food Ministries that sought to have the Wingo family removed from the helm and from the premises of the organization, was dismissed today.

Angel Food Ministries Responds to Lawsuit Claims

Saturday, February 28, 2009 – Monroe, GA: The lawsuit filed yesterday in Walton County, Georgia was initiated by two directors who are interested in removing the founders of the Ministry – Pastors Joe and Linda Wingo – only to install themselves in the founders place.

February 11, 2009 - To address possible issues raised by a government investigation, Angel Food Ministries has released this statement:

A single search warrant was executed today at Angel Food Ministries’ home office. Angel Food Ministries deems this to be an investigation of an individual or individuals connected to the organization, and not regarding the ministry itself, its service to the public or its host sites in any way.

The staff, management and Board of Directors have pledged full cooperation with government officials.

Angel Food Ministries, welcoming its 15th year of serving food to those in need, reaches 39 states to hundreds of thousands of families with nearly six million boxes distributed in 2008, and $5.1 million donated to the communities we serve. It is our mission to do that, and we will continue to do so.

AFM is taking orders and is prepared to fill them as usual.

This matter will not affect our abilities to take orders and fulfill them. Your February orders will be delivered next week as scheduled, and customer support is beginning to take your orders for March.

If you have any questions please email our communications department at News@angelfoodministries.com

Ain’t That America: Angel Food Ministries' Little Pink Houses

March 28, 2009

Getting up at two in the morning to head to work is never fun, of that I am certain. Yet, this morning in Bakersfield, California, could not have been more fun, more interesting or even more meaningful.

We flew in late from Georgia Friday evening, and landed at about six thirty Pacific time, having first worked all morning on the East Coast. First to dinner, than to an early bed in order to rise and be at the host site parking lot by three AM to meet the two tractor trailers from National Carriers, Angel Food Ministries' official shipper for this month’s 560 thousand boxes of food relief we just distributed.

Open letter from AFM Board Member Renee Branson

March 24, 2009

I appreciate a Pastor who wants personal insight into ministries with whom he is affiliated, such as Angel Food Ministries. I became acquainted with Pastors Joe and Linda Wingo in 1994 when they visited my pastor in Houston, Texas, and I was present in the room where they were meeting. They had come to ask him for a prayer of blessing over Angel Food Ministries as they were just starting to reach out to more people who needed assistance with food for families in their area. I remember Pastor Wingo said, “Pastor, I am not here to ask you for money. I am here to ask for your blessing and to pray over this ministry and the work that God has given us to do to feed hungry people.”

Is CEO pay at Angel Food Ministries excessive? Two views
By Gary Snyder/W. Joseph Wingo
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC.com)
Published March 18, 2009

No: Salary is within fair range after 5 years of working for free

By W. JOSEPH WINGO

A New York Times headline of a few weeks ago, “Newly Poor Swell Lines at Food Banks Nationwide,” confirms a growing class of Americans who need food.

Government cannot solve this problem alone, and many in the private or nonprofit sectors have been struggling to find solutions that work. Money is the key, yet for charities money is harder to raise.

Nonprofit organizations battling hunger are among the worst hit. Food pantries are drying, donations are dropping and the food conglomerates have figured out that they can sell their overstock and soon-to-expire goods to developing countries for cents on the dollar rather than give it away to the needy.

Angel Food Ministries Reaches Distribution Milestones
Record February Numbers Speak Volumes of the Economy and the Urgent Need for Grocery Relief Services

February 17, 2009 – Monroe, GA: Angel Food Ministries (www.angelfoodministries.com), an organization dedicated to providing affordable, high quality food to those in need, achieved its highest ever February distribution, which was 63 percent more than the same month last year. In addition, distribution numbers have increased 20 percent since January 2009, indicating a growing need for affordable, quality food.

Covering the Angel Food Saga
By Patrick Graham
The Walton Tribune
Published February 18, 2009

My cell phone started ringing almost immediately.

This is a small town, after all, and it didn’t take long for word to travel about federal authorities going into the offices of Angel Food Ministries last Wednesday to remove electronic data and other documents. Everyone, it seemed, had heard a different version of the events that day and wanted to know if I had any inside scoop.