Weekend Backpacks
David Dickey Insurance and “The Edge” Sunday School class at Lake Arlington Baptist Church are involved in a program started several years ago called “Weekend Backpacks”. Many children in our kids' schools depend on the free and reduced-cost breakfast and lunch program provided by the schools for the one or two nutritious meals they will eat all day. To provide nourishment on the weekends for children at high risk of hunger, we are providing backpacks filled with food that children can easily access without the help of adults. These children are given a non-descript backpack each Friday stocked with healthy, easy-to-fix foods that are ready to eat for them and their school-aged siblings. They then return the empty backpack on Monday for it to be refilled for the following weekend. While our program is not unique, there is still a HUGE need. Currently only a few of the Arlington schools are a part of this growing ministry - Ditto, Dunn, Hill, Little, Miller and Wood. Eventually, if resources permit, we would like to add more schools.
The list of items we are collecting for the backpacks include:
Easy Mac and Cheese
Hormel ComplEats
Fruit Cups
Granola & Snack Bars
Tuna & cracker kits
Vienna sausage
Individual ravioli spaghetti/chicken noodle cups
Soup at Hand
Nuts
Fruit roll ups
Cereal bars
Chicken salad kits
Snack size cereal boxes
Juice boxes
Snack size crackers
Graham crackers
Protein bars
Raisins
Dried fruit
Instant Oatmeal
How can you help? There are two ways you can help:
1) You can drop off food to either our church or my office.
LABC: My Office: 2912 Little Road 980 N Cooper Street
Arlington, TX 76016 Arlington, TX 76011
and just mention that they are for the Edge Sunday School Class Weekend Backpacks program.
2) You can contribute money to the church (made payable to LABC) and put in the memo line "Weekend Backpacks". You can drop off money to the same two locations above.
And another way that everyone can help is you can pray for the ministry: For growth, for funds, for volunteers and for food.
For more information on the program, or how to get started with your own program, please email me, or call me at (817) 861-3283.