About Us

…feeding Our community since 1967

In 1965, The Church of The Good Shepherd provided a building behind its place of worship for seniors of the Wichita Falls community; that building was located at 1107 Burnett Street. Due to the difficulty of locating the facility, the community organizers painted the entry door to the building red, and immediately the directions to the building were easily identifiable, “go down the alley and look for the Red Door.” For the next two years, a number of seniors meet at the “Red Door Senior Center” to fellowship and congregate until a more formal location was established. And on May 15, 1967, the seniors, along with the assistance of several community leaders, founded the Senior Citizens Services of North Texas, and acquired the Temple of Israel Synagogue—located at 1008 Burnett Street— in 1968 to be the new Red Door Senior Center.

Over the years, the organization has made significant changes to provide more meals – to combat hunger throughout Wichita Falls, and activities and services – to ensure a viable senior citizen community.  As an example, in 2009, the organization, while never forgetting our main constituent – the seniors, developed a strategic partnership to ensure that not only the seniors but the children of Wichita Falls never go hungry.   Due to that partnership, the organization realized the growth of its services, and in 2011, decided to change its name to become more encompassing from the Senior Citizens Services of North Texas, to simply, THE Kitchen.

Today, the organization’s mission is to provide “nutritional meals and complementary services” to the citizens of the Wichita Falls community. Currently, THE Kitchen serves as the parent to a family of distinctly unique programs – the Red Door and Green Door Senior Centers, Meals on Wheels program, and the Kid’s Cafe, a partnership with the Wichita Falls Area Food Bank.

We welcome you to tour our site, learn more about our programs, and to contact us for more information. And more importantly, we thank you for stopping by our home and hope that you will considering joining our family, because…

Like many families, Ours gather at THE Kitchen.