Micah's Backpack

10/21/2026

Good morning everyone! If you’re wondering where to eat for dinner this evening, stop by Buffalo Wild Wings in Blacksburg and display this digital flyer to your server, the company is donating a portion of proceeds from sales between 4PM-9PM. Hope to see you there!

07/14/2026

Good afternoon everyone! We are still packing every Tuesday at 6pm. However, Tuesday July 21st we will NOT be packing. Instead, we encourage anyone and everyone to attend this event at the amazing 3 Birds Berry Farm in Blacksburg from 5:15pm-7pm! All of the proceeds from the bake sale will go directly to Micah’s Backpack. Thank you so much 3 Birds Berry Farm for continuing to support us every summer with events like this! ❤️🥧🎒

06/24/2026

Good afternoon everyone! Today from 12pm until tomorrow, June 25th, at 12pm, we are participating in NRV Give Local's annual day of giving! We truly appreciate you helping us feed our community and if you feel so generous as to leave a donation, please do so in the link below. Thank you so much for your continued support and for keeping us up and running!

Micah’s Backpack is a weekend meals program for students on free meal plans in Blacksburg Public Schools. The goal of the program is to provide weekend meals and snacks to these children and ensure that they have a steady and nutritious source of food over the weekends...

06/02/2026

Good evening everyone! I wanted to share our numbers from this past school year. In the 2025/2026 school year, we packed and sent out:
9,765 bags
58,590 meals
146,475 items of food
That’s a 15.5% increase over last years totals. Thank you all for you continued support. We will continue packing over the summer every Tuesday at 6pm, hope to see you there someday! 😊

04/08/2026

Good morning everyone! Please come out to Your Pie pizza and support Micah’s Backpack, they’re doing an awesome thing by raising funds out of their sales for us between 2-6pm! 🥳🥳🥳

03/31/2026

Friendly reminder- we will NOT be packing this evening. We will resume packing next Tuesday, April 7th, at 6pm 😊

02/17/2026

Friendly reminder- packing will take place tomorrow, Wednesday the 18th, at 6pm. Next week we will be back to our regular Tuesday packing events 😊

02/10/2026

Good morning everyone! Want to let everyone know that we will NOT be packing today, February 10th due to a surplus of bags leftover from school closures.
Our next scheduled packing event will be Wednesday, February 18th at 6pm. The packing events following that date will be our usual Tuesdays at 6pm. Thank you all and have a great week!!

02/03/2026

Good morning everyone- packing tonight, Tuesday February 3rd, is cancelled! Schools were closed all of last week so we still have all of our bags left and none to pack tonight. We will pick up where we left off as normal next Tuesday February 10th, and also the following Wednesday February 18th, both at 6pm. Have a great day!

01/27/2026

Heads up to everyone: we WILL be packing tonight at 6pm at St Michael Lutheran Church per usual, feel free to come and join us! If it seems too dangerous for you to be on the road, then please stay home and join us on another Tuesday 😊🥶🎒