04/23/2026
Shout out to some of the local churches who helped pack our Blessing Bags for this school year! ⛪️ 🛍️
Camp Creek Baptist Church purchased and packed October 2025 bags.
Sycamore Church Youth Group packed November 2025 bags.
First Baptist Church of Saltillo purchased and packed December 2025 and March 2026 bags.
First Baptist Church of Tupelo packed February 2026 bags. (Children’s Sunday School Class)
All Saints Episcopal Church packed May 2026 bags.
If your church, youth group, business, or organization would like to volunteer to purchase and/or pack Blessing Bags for the 2026/2027 school year, please message us!
The Blessing Bags program is a backpack program in which we supply children in need within the Saltillo/Guntown schools with food items for the weekends while they are not in school.
We pack the bags with breakfast, lunch, and snack options. All food selections are non-perishable and "kid-friendly", so that they can be prepared and eaten without adult supervision.
We currently provide 78 children with Blessing Bags weekly, and we anticipate that this number will fluctuate due to inflation and changes in the economy. The SJWC also sends home extra food bags when school breaks occur. The total monthly cost of running the Blessing Bags program is roughly $1650 or approximately $21 per child.
