Our Story

So, how did Break Bread come to be?  Simply put, Break Bread emerged because a group of caring neighbors saw a need in their community and made the bold decision to act.  Specifically, some members within the Littleton United Methodist Church saw too many neighbors struggling with food insecurity, isolation, and other challenges life brought their way.  These individuals decided to serve their neighbors, and build meaningful relationships among those in the community by providing free weekly community meals open to ALL neighbors.  They mobilized, formed a Board of Directors, developed goals, made plans, and set it in motion.   With that, Break Bread was born.  It was 2017.  

Since then, Break Bread has grown and morphed beyond anyone's dreams.  Our first meals boasted 40 or so neighbors.  By the time community gatherings were halted due to safety concerns during the Covid-19 pandemic, Break Bread welcomed an average of 80-100 neighbors each week.  Knowing that hunger and isolation would only worsen during the pandemic, Break Bread evolved and found ways to still offer nourishment, unconditional love and abundant grace to our neighbors.  So, we began offering meals to-go each Saturday.  Neighbors would come pick up their meals.  We started learning of neighbors who couldn't get to us for the to-go meals, so we added delivery.  And then we added to-go meals and deliveries on Wednesdays as well.  In Sept pf 2022 we returned to in person dining on Saturdays while continuing our to-go meals on Wednesday , averaging 550 meals each week when we paused operations in Oct of 2025.

We paused programming in Oct of 2025 in order to focus on resource and operational development; Hoping to build on what we had, make some tweaks and create and stronger more sustainable foundation.  We are excited to announce that we will be returning to weekly togo meal in April of 2026 and in person dining in July. All our meals will be held at our new home, East Community Center. We are incredibly grateful for our partnership with East and LPS. This new space will not only welcome our neighbors with dignity and hospitality while offering easy collaboration with other nonprofit organization and offer an opportunity to better serve the community. 

Thank you to all our neighbors who play such a large part in making Break Bread the beautiful community of neighbors it has become.  We truly are all in this together.