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About DayStar Life Center

DayStar Life Center, an all volunteer organization helping needy families in Hernando County.

WHO ARE WE AND WHAT DO WE DO?

DayStar Life Center is a ministry of St. Anthony’s Church. Our mission is to provide life’s basic needs:

  • Food
  • Resource Information

All our funds less property expense go back into the community. We can do this because we are an all-volunteer organization in operation since 1983 (the Daystar on US 19 in Spring Hill closed 7 years ago and was not connected to us).

WHERE DOES THE FUNDING AND FOOD COME FROM?

Our funding comes primarily from our thrift store sales. Additional help comes from generous organizations like:

Besides these donations, we also benefit from food drives from:

  • St John’s Episcopal
  • St. Anthony’s in Brooksville
  • United States Post Office’s “Stamp out Hunger” food drive each Mothers Day weekend

We receive financial aid from:

  • St John’s Episcopal Church in Brooksville
  • First Presbyterian Church
  • First United Methodist
  • Hernando Oaks Annual Christmas Food Drive
  • United Church of Christ in Spring Hill
  • Emergency Food & Shelter Program Grant
  • DayStar individual Patrons and Supporters.

This generosity helps us continue our mission.

This year we will assisted over 4200 families and passed out 60 tons of food.

Mission Statement

"To assist the poor and needy of Hernando County with life's basic needs: Food and Resource Information."

Donate Funds

How You Can Help Us Help Others

Make a Financial Donation. You can make a donation through this website, drop it off at Daystar Life Center or mail it to us at 20428 Cortez Blvd, Brooksville, FL 34601.

Make a Material Donation such as furniture, appliances, housewares or clean clothing that we can sell in our thrift shops. Our trucks are scheduled for pick-ups on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout Hernando County.
Please call 352-293-5496 to schedule a pick-up.

Become a DayStar Volunteer. We need help in the office, Thrift Shop sorting and assisting on the trucks (not driving). You can help one day a week for a 4 hours. You can also help once or twice a year on special projects.

Come and Buy Something at our Thrift Shops. We are located ¼ mile on Hope Hill Rd behind St. Anthony’s. Our current hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9:00 AM to 1:00pm.
Need Directions Click Here for a Map.

Clothes, Appliances, Furniture and More!
Inventory Changes Weekly.
Open Thursday, Friday & Saturday 9:00 to 1:00

Our Contributions to Hernando County Families

DayStar’s food pantry regularly donates to other local charities with extra bread and pastries when there is an overabundance, including Joseph's House, Jericho Road Ministries, Dawn Center, Love Thy Neighbor, and Forest Oaks Lutheran Church.

The food pantry provides for example, a family of four, meat, butter, bread, pastries, and non-perishable items that equal 37 pounds of food. This is a substantial amount of food, by any food pantry standard.

Last Thanksgiving, DayStar was able to provide holiday food for over 400 families. We Purchased 350 Publix gift cards which was generously supplemented by residents of The Hernando Oaks Community.

DayStar also partnered with J.A.M., (Jesus And Me) ministry supporting their luncheon program, by providing 150 Brooksville children with toys for Christmas. Daystar also donated twelve boxes of toys for children of the Dawn Center, assuring they had toys for Christmas. We also donate toys to Jericho Ministries and Head Start.

For over thirty (30) years, DayStar has been helping the elderly and retired in the community who are living on fixed incomes and are in a day-to-day struggle to maintain a normal standard of living.

The DayStar Life Center plans to continue their dedication to helping more people, sharing their abundance through additional outreach projects, and continuing to partner with more organizations in the area.