Stronger Together - Echols County, GA

04/26/2020

When this mission started, we were feeding 100 kids each day. We are currently feeding 425 each day! God is working through us. We can see and feel Him guiding this mission!! This is a trying time for many people, and He brought us all together to feed His children!

If you are able to, please consider donating to this mission. We will be accepting donations at Sardis Baptist Church today from 4-6.

The following is a list of foods/items that can be donated:
• Paper lunch sacks (large bags)
• Grocery bags (plastic or paper)
• Boxes (any size)
• Individually bagged chips
• Little Debbie snacks/snack cakes
• Yogurt cups or yogurt sticks
• Water
• Juice boxes, Capri Suns, Kool-Aid Jammer
• Ziploc bags (quart and gallon size)

We ask that you continue to pray for this mission. Pray specifically for the kids that are at home, we do not know the situations they may encounter on a daily basis. Please pray specifically for the hands making the lunches and handing out the lunches. Pray that God continues to protect those serving Him and doing His work during this pandemic. Our God is in control! 🙏

If you have any questions, please message us

04/21/2020

After taking two weeks off, we started back serving lunches yesterday. We will be at the Sheriff's office (12:00-1:00) and Sardis Baptist Church (11:00-12:00) every day this week. Please spread the word! We thank each of you for your support! It truly takes a village to feed our kids.

We will be accepting donations every day at Sardis Baptist Church from 10-12 and Thursday 4-6.

The following is a list of foods/items that can be donated:
• Paper lunch sacks (large bags)
• Grocery bags
• Individually bagged chips
• Little Debbie snacks/snack cakes
• Yogurt cups or yogurt sticks
• Uncrustables (in the freezer section)
• Sliced cheese
• Water
• Juice boxes, Capri Suns, Kool-Aid Jammer
• Peanut Butter
• Jelley
• Bread
• Ziploc bags (quart and gallon size)

Please continue to pray for everyone, especially those on the front line fighting Covid19. This virus is far from being over, but our God is in control! 🙏

04/04/2020

Wow!! We cannot begin to express our gratitude towards everyone that has helped make this mission possible. Everything you do helps! You all have donated items, your time, shared our posts, and most importantly PRAYED. We started out feeding 100 kids. Our current number is 450 kids each day! It takes a lot of food to feed these kids. Each week it gets harder to find those items.

The following is a list of foods/items that can be donated:
• Paper lunch sacks (large bags)
• Individually bagged chips
• Little Debbie snacks
• Rice crispy treats
• Yogurt cups or yogurt sticks
• Uncrustables (in the freezer section)
• Sliced cheese
• Water
• Juice boxes, Capri Suns, Kool-Aid Jammers
• Ziploc bags (quart and gallon size)

*All donations can be dropped off at Sardis Baptist Church from 3 to 6 on Sunday April 5th.

Please continue to pray. Pray for everyone, especially those on the front line fighting Covid19. This virus is serious and we need God to intervene!

04/02/2020

Someone will be at Sardis Baptist Church from 4 to 6 if anyone wants to drop off donations. We are currently feeding 425 kids each day!!

Items needed:
Ziploc bags (quart size)
Large brown bags
Snack cakes
Chips
Drinks
*All items must be store bought and prepackaged, thank you for supporting this mission!!

04/01/2020

Echols Sack Lunch Mission
5,415 lunches served as of April 20, 2020.

Echols Sack Lunch Mission started as a joint effort between local churches, school staff and community members coming together to fill the need of feeding our students lunch through their unexpected absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students rely on the meals that the school provides each week day and with school being out unexpectedly, we wanted to help lighten the load of families throughout the county. Echols County is a unique place, a hidden gem, filled with a whole community that cares about each other. We are all Stronger Together.
FAQ

Volunteers – Want to volunteer? With the school closures extending even further, we can always use more helping hands. Message us here if you would like to come volunteer or meet at one of the specified meeting times announced on this page. We have been meeting at Statenville Church of God to make the sandwiches for the sack lunches and at Sardis Baptist Church to pack the sack lunches and distribute them across the county. We also meet at the Echols Sheriffs Parking lot to hand out lunches. (Times will be posted weekly, please refer to this page for the most current meeting times)

Donations- Jenna Newham is in charge of any monetary donations at this time. 100% of all money collected will be put toward buying the needed supplies to make the sack lunches. We can also use donations of supplies to make the lunches. Supplies include
-Bread
-Peanut Butter and Jelly
-Individual Bags of Chips
-Snack Cakes (Crackers/gold fish/Little Debbie Cakes etc)
-Zip Lock Bags (Sandwich and Gallon Sizes)
-Drinks (bottled water/ juice boxes / capri sun)

Student Lunches – This lunch is available to ALL students (Pre-K – 12th grade) in Echols County. This is for students only.

Pick up Locations - Lunches will be available for pick up at Sardis Baptist Church and the Echols Sheriffs office at specified dates and times. Please refer to the Stronger Together - Echols County page for dates and times.

Please message us with any questions.

03/31/2020

Here is an update on our sack lunch mission. A few volunteers met yesterday and made 775 lunch bags!! The donations, prayers, and support from the community have been unbelievable!! You guys are the reason we are able to feed OUR kids! We cannot thank you enough for supporting our mission. If you want to make a donation, we will be accepting donations at Sardis Baptist Church from 4 to 6 on March 31st.

The following items are needed:
•bottled water, capri suns, juice
•individually bagged chips, goldfish
•snack cakes

Please continue to pray!! Pray for our kids, community, state, and our country!

03/28/2020

We are now serving almost 350 children per day through the Echols County Sack Lunch Mission. Thank you so much to the ones who have donated their time, money, items, and prayers. We plan to continue to bless the children of our county as long as we are able. We will be accepting donations for this mission tomorrow, Sunday March 29th, from 4-6pm at Sardis Baptist Church.

**Donations needed at this time:

Individual drinks (waters, juice boxes, Capri Suns, Kool-aid Jammers...)

Small Individual bags of chips

Individually pre wrapped snack cakes (Little Debbie Cakes, cookies, Moon Pies...)

Small brown/white paper lunch sacks

03/26/2020

03/26/2020

This is the page we will use to post about our sack lunch mission. Be on the lookout for daily updates!