More Than a Backpack Drive
July 12 - July 26
For many children in foster care, a backpack is more than a school supply. It is something stable in the middle of uncertainty. That’s why our local mission partner, Kids to Love, created the More Than a Backpack program.
Many children entering foster care carrying their belongings in trash bags or with very few personal items. A new backpack filled with school supplies gives them the dignity and confidence to start the school year prepared.
Last year alone, Kids to Love provided 5,826 backpacks to children across Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Cove Church is joining that effort by collecting new backpacks filled with supplies July 12-26.
Backpacks can be dropped off on Sunday mornings in the Worship Center lobby or during the week in the business office, Monday-Thursday, from 8am-4pm. Suggested school supplies: three-ring binders, pocket folders, one-subject notebooks, filler paper, colored pencils, markers, scientific calculators, erasers, ink pens, scissors, crayons.
A simple backpack may not seem like much, but for a child in foster care, it can mean everything.