At Presence Kids, children (ages 1–12) experience God’s love in a safe, fun, and faith-filled environment. Through worship, Bible teaching, and engaging activities, we help kids grow strong in their walk with Jesus—one Sunday at a time.
Presence Church is an active Church in the local community with a large focus on local youth, young adults, and reaching out to others; especially families who face the challenge of meal insecurity. Recently, our local school systems suspended their Backpack Program where students were sent home with several meals for the weekend. We want to fill this void and begin distributing lunches every Friday through our new program “Weekend Eats”. This Summer we are dedicated to combat hunger in our children. For many of these children, the schools' free breakfast and lunch programs provide the only guaranteed meals each day during the week. We want to help meet their needs on the weekend.
In the Summer of 2023 alone, we were able to feed over 1,052 children, distributing over 4,608+ meals.
Due to an increase in need, we also do Weekend Eats during scheduled school breaks.
We would love for you to partner with us by donating! The goal is to provide several healthy meal options that are already prepared or easily prepared. The meals will be so easy to prepare that the children will be able to do it without parental assistance. This means we have to be very particular with the types of foods we distribute. Over the years, we were successful in providing food for thousands of families through our homeless ministry, food pantry and other programs. This year, we hope to provide more than we ever have as the need is greater. By donating, you will be directly contributing to providing a much needed service to children in our community.
We are requesting that you donate gift cards or funds that would be used for the same purpose. Whether your donation is monetary or by gift card to local grocery stores, it will help significantly.
Boxes of individually bagged chips
Juice Boxes, Hugs, or small water bottles
Individual fruit cupsAny individual packaged crackers, Rice Krispies, fruit snacks, granola bars, etc.
Individual Pop tarts, mini cereal boxes or oatmeal packages
Macaroni or Rice cups
*All donated items must be NEW and unopened. We will not accept out of date items. We reserve the right to deny any donated items for any reason*
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