A Message from our Outreach Ministry, Bayou City Blessings in a Backpack
As the school year’s end approaches, so will the Bayou City Blessings packings for the summer. We are so grateful to our Holy Spirit family for all the help you have been this school year.
● Your monthly gifts and generosity have allowed us to provide weekend food bags to over 2,600 elementary children living in food insecurity.
● Your heartfelt love and prayers were written down on index cards as part of your Lenten practice and distributed in the children’s weekend food bags.
● Your financial support at Food Bowl in February helped sustain our ministry this year.
● The gifts you gave at Advent for the Giving Tree - both in-kind and financial - was a blessing to us.
● You shopped and donated at our Fall Market in September.
● Our Food Focus monthly items came with you to church each month.
● And by the time school completes at the end of May, you will have assisted with 78 packings since August!
Thank you, Church!
This ministry of feeding children does not exist without every single one of you. We are grateful!
There are a myriad of ways you can continue assisting Bayou City Blessings over the summer:
● Write encouraging notes for us to distribute in the next school year.
● Continue bringing our Food Focus items to worship with you this summer. May’s focus is applesauce cups/pouches, June’s focus is raisins or craisins, and July & August’s focus is boxed macaroni and cheese.
● $125 supports a child all school year with weekend food, so please continue to support our ministry with financial support! The number of food insecure children in Houston is only growing, and we don’t want to drop our support for our existing program children in the 14 HISD and SBISD schools with which we partner. Your gift will be recorded on your Holy Spirit year end giving report and can be made here:
For any of these opportunities, please contact Michelle at volunteer@bayoucityblessings.org or me at Katie@bayoucityblessings.org.
May 16 is our LAST Community Assembly for the school year! Run by the grocery store for some cups of applesauce and join us in packing bags at 6PM sharp in the Parish Hall.
Mark your calendars for our Fall Market for Bayou City Blessings on September 12-13 in the Parish Hall!
Every blessing,
Katie and Michelle