When
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Tuesday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM CDT 1 week
Where
Your Home
Activity Description
SERVE-at-Home is a way for your family to spread kindness and help our community on your own, anytime, anywhere! We want to keep Houston volunteering all week long! Let's make food focus packs for Bayou City Blessings to distribute to its clients!
For this activity, you will work with your family at home to assemble food focus packs for Bayou City Blessings in a Backpack. BCB distributes food to over 2,300 children in HISD and SBISD every Friday of the school year, making Bayou City Blessings one of the largest Blessings in a Backpack chapters in the nation.
Activity Directions
Pack the following items in grocery bags or other suitable packaging for easy carrying and delivery:
- Ramen
- Snack sized applesauce
- Cheese cracker packages
- Individual Goldfish snack crackers (1oz)
You can purchase supplies for and make as many food focus packs as your family is able to donate. We recommend making 3-4 packs, but making more is appreciated.
Please feel free to include encouraging notes!
- 3x5 or 4x6 index card with an encouraging phrase on it, a sticker or stamp.
Please don’t include dates, contact information, last names, religious references, or seasonal information such as references to holidays.
Delivery Instructions: Tuesday mornings from 10-12, Wednesday mornings from 9-11, Friday mornings from 8-9:30 or the 3rd Thursday of each month (as expressed on their website for Community Assemblies) from 5:00-7:00 PM. OR, there is a drop off box located in the church office during normal M-F 9-5 business hours.
- Drop-Off Address: Holy Spirit Episcopal Church 12535 Perthshire Road; Houston, TX 77024
Activity Requirements
- This activity is great for all ages!
- This Generation SERVE Houston-based activity can be completed on your own anytime during the month.
- Our program is designed to be a family experience. We want parents and caregivers to work alongside their child(ren) for all our Family Volunteering activities.
SERVE at Home Program Information
Our SERVE at Home activities are a way for your family to spread kindness and help our community on your own, anytime, anywhere! Work with your family to complete this activity anytime during the month. Be sure to take pictures of your family working together on this project so we can certify your submission when you are done. We ask that SERVE at Home activities be completed within a month of the calendar listing or within 7 days of the listing, whichever time frame is longer.
After you RSVP for this event, we will send you an email with a form for you to submit your photos and let us know you've completed the activity!
More About Our Partner
Bayou City Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes the local community, individuals and resources to provide food on the weekends and during school breaks for Houston children who might otherwise go hungry.