Backpack Ministry!

Next month, Holy Nativity Church and School will join with others in our community by sponsoring a backpack ministry at a neighboring public school. Each week, we will send a child home with a backpack filled with nonperishable food items so the child has something to eat over the weekend, and the child will then return the backpack on Monday so we can re-fill it during the week. This new ministry is a result of the alarming increase in numbers of children who participate in school funded breakfast and lunch programs and the corresponding fear of school administrators that many of these children have nothing to eat on weekends.

To make the program a success, we need your help! There are two ways you can participate. First, your family, perhaps in tandem with another family, may sign up to sponsor an individual child’s backpack (or more than one, if you are so moved). You’ll receive a list of items to fill the backpack each week, and bring those items with you to church on Sunday. We will pack the backpack when we receive it back from the school during the week, and send it home with the child on Friday. The other way you can participate is simply by bringing individual items from the checklist to church, and we will use your contributions to ensure we meet our commitment to the children if some backpacks come up short.

Sign-up sheets for this ministry are located in Battin Hall during Advent. If you have any questions, please feel free to give Mike Dickey a call at 867.2550 or email atmdickey@barronredding.com. This project provides a great hands-on ministry for those looking for ways to meet Christ’s mandate that we feed the hungry, and a way for us to share the Good News outside the walls of the church.

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