Starting August 1st the “Blessings in a Backpack” project will be ramping up for the 2025-2026 school year. 

ONE in FIVE children relies on their school’s free and reduced-price meal program to provide the nourishment they need to learn and grow. But what happens when the kids leave school on Friday? St. Nicholas provides bags of food to the children of the Mogadore School District. The bags of food are distributed on Fridays to take home for the weekend.

Gloria Molenaur, our St. Nicholas chair, will be accepting your donations throughout the month of August to get ready for the September school start. She can take non-perishable foods from the list she publishes in the bulletin or money to purchase foods that will go into the blessing bags. You can just drop a check in the candle stand basket marked “Blessings in a Backpack”

This past year 68 bags were prepared weekly for 22 weeks for children in need. Each bag contains about 6 food items.  Will you help feed the children this weekend?