14 Jun Sunfield Providing Free Sack Lunches to Children

Leigh Pearson (right), administrative assistant, Sunfield UB Church (Sunfield, Mich.)

In our area school district, 70% of the children participate in the subsized school lunch program. For the summer months, we are partnering with a local buinsessman to provide a sack lunch to children in the Sunfield area. The sack lunches are free and are available Monday – Friday from noon to 1:00 pm. We started the program on Wednesday, June 6, and during the first week the number of kids participating tripled.

It is such a joy to pull up at the park and see all the kids waiting for you to help you unpack your car and pass out lunches. Each day, we have lunch and then the kids participate in some type of Bible-related craft or activity. Then we head out into the park and play games.

We are so blessed to have the opportunity to talk with and build a relationship with our children in the area over the course of the summer. We are really excited about it! I know we’ll be sad to see the summer end and will miss spending the lunch hour with them. But hopefully we will see a lot of them here at our church.