Mission of the Dirt Road

06/17/2026

!!! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

Mission of the Dirt Road WILL still have Family Day tomorrow, which means we have groceries for families (while supplies last), and we'll have educational activities for children and teens! You can stop in 10am-2pm for food and activities. However, the YMCA will not be available to facilitate their food distribution this week. Please share with families who may be affected so that we limit any inconvenience.

If you are registered with the YMCA for the Rural Non-Congregate Feeding Program, you should have received this message from them: We want to inform you that due to the rapid growth in participation at our weekly food distribution program, we have unfortunately exhausted our current meal inventory and must cancel the food distribution scheduled for tomorrow, June 18, at Mission of the Dirt Road Community Center & Church. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and understand the impact this may have on your family. The tremendous response to this program has exceeded our initial projections, and we are grateful for the opportunity to serve so many children in our community. The good news is that we have already worked with our meal distributor to secure a larger meal allocation moving forward. We have implemented a solution to accommodate the increased demand, and we do not anticipate this being an issue going forward. We appreciate your patience, understanding, and support as we continue to expand this program to meet the needs of our community. We look forward to serving your family again next week.

06/17/2026

REMINDER Family Day Every Thursday June-July

Outside -YMCA food program this Thursday 10:30 am - 12:30pm

Inside- Mission of the Dirt Road will have educational activities happening 10am-2pm on these Thursdays, and we will have other fresh foods available for families who are participating. We will require no additional registration.

06/16/2026

Yay!!

🎉 Our July nonprofits have been selected!

We’re excited to announce the three organizations that will be featured at our next quarterly meeting on July 23:

🌟 Clay Education Foundation
🌟 Mission of the Dirt Road
🌟 Challenge Enterprises

We’re honored to highlight these incredible nonprofits and can’t wait to learn more about the impact they’re making in Clay County.

Stay tuned as we spotlight each organization in the weeks ahead!

06/15/2026

We're so excited to be hosting Linksi on the Dirt Road. 😉 Thank you to for offering us a scholarship to host Linksi on our website for a year.

Check out missionofthedirtroad.com, click on Linksi the octopus to learn about all of the amazing resources in Clay County that may be helpful to you or a neighbor.

We've ordered some business cards with the QR Code to give to friends and neighbors too. We'll let you know when they arrive!

06/15/2026

Come out tomorrow night for community class at 5:30 PM. 

06/15/2026

Do you love to cook? Our Community Class meals could use a few volunteers for the summer.
This is a great way to volunteer with a friend or as a group.

Here is the link with available dates.

Every Tuesday, we have a community class on Tuesday, 5:30-6:30pm, where we invite neighbors and community members to learn something new related to relational, physical, financial, emotional wellness. Then we serve a meal from 6:30-7:00, and then Celebrate Recovery will start their meeting at 7pm. O...

06/15/2026

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06/14/2026

As a part of our conversation series around Worship, tomorrow we'll be having our first official "backyard church." This will be a more contemplative gathering, where we will enjoy some time in our beautiful backyard and garden. We'll start with our meal at 11am and then move outside for "backyard church." Join us!

06/12/2026

Over the past two weeks, YMCA has facilitated the rural non-congregant feeding program at Mission of the Dirt Road, and they have served over 5,000 meals to kids in our community! This past week, Mission of the Dirt Road was able to provide 50 families (with 152 children) with fresh foods (tomatoes, strawberries, salad kit, frozen vegetable blend, tortillas, salsa, ground turkey, taco seasoning, a can of black beans, a can of corn, and queso) for the whole family to enjoy.

We also had 27 kids participate in educational activities while they were picking up food with their parents! Thanks to support from Baptist Health and the YMCA, this programming and food distribution will happen every Thursday in June & July!!