Two Bronx pastors and their church community are feeding hundreds of families each week, Mask Our Heroes NYC is making sure frontline workers have the PPE they need, and a child's sign of appreciation: Kristen Shaughnessy brings you Wednesday's Acts of Kindness, where New Yorkers help New Yorkers get through this crisis.

What You Need To Know


  • Flow Kingdom Ministries in the Bronx is feeding hundreds of families each week.
  • Their food pantry is open from 5-7 P.M. on Mondays, 3-5 P.M. on Wednesdays.
  • Masks Our Heroes NYC has raised more than 75,000 in two months to buy PPE for frontline workers.
  • Both Flow Kingdom Ministries and Mask Our Heroes NYC are accepting donations.

The Flow Kingdom Ministries in the Bronx runs a food pantry. Since the pandemic, the 100 families the church feeds each week has grown to 400. The food bank of New York and local donors are helping out the church volunteers. 
 


They provide each family with a week’s worth of groceries on Mondays, and on Wednesday the church serves ready-to-eat meals and hands out additional groceries donated by the World Central Kitchen. 

Louie and Jessica Negron lead the effort. They said their well aware their community has one of the highest rates of coronavirus in the city, and is the poorest congressional district in the nation.
 


"We are always open and always in need of donations and you can find us and donate at www.IAmFlow.org," said Jessica Negron a pastor at Flow Kingdom Ministries.

Several Asian American groups joined together to form a joint effort, called Mask Our Heroes NYC, as a way to distribute thousands of masks and other PPE to hospitals in the tri-state area, reaching out to more than 100 connections in different hospitals to assess what was needed and how to get it there. 
 


They’ve raised more than $75,000 in two months.

"These frontline heroes, all are brothers, sisters, family, friends, neighbors,” said Gordon Yu, who heads up fundraising for Mask our Heroes NYC. “They put their lives on the frontline for us daily and we're compelled to do all we can to help them.”
 


You can checkout the Mask Our Heroes NYC GoFundMe page, or find them on Instagram.

Finally, NY1 fan Andrea spotted a child's note on the door of a building in Park Slope:
 


"Dear Pizza guy," the notes reads, "thank you for bringing people pizza, love Oscar."

Thanks, Oscar, for speaking for so many of us!