Summer B4K Delivery Help

Sometimes sharing your faith means sharing your food!
And even though it's summer, OSLC gets to keep on sharing food with our neighbors through the Backpack 4 Kids program.
For 5 weeks this summer, we will pack and deliver 100 bags.
Contact Kristi, if you are able to help with delivery.

Contact Kristi

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Did you know that the Franklin Pierce School District has the highest rate of free and reduced lunch in Pierce County? For many children in our immediate area, school lunches are the only nutritious meals they get, and they are hungry over the weekend.

Backpacks 4 Kids (B4K) is a weekend feeding program that reaches these hungry kids. Food is packed each week by volunteers, placed into individual bags, and sent home with students on Friday. Each week during the school year, we serve over 300 kids in Franklin Pierce.

B4K is only sustainable with your help!
B4K is fully dependent upon volunteers, gifts, and donations. New members are always welcome to the B4K team. Helping out is easy, and it makes a world of difference to developing children.

Here are some ways you can help:
1. Volunteer!! 
​Wednesday night packing in the B4K program is a BLAST, but it takes a village. It takes 12-15 volunteers each week to pack the food bags. Packing shifts are very popular with community groups, so sign ups for all packing shifts are online. Contact Kristi for the link to view the online, sign up sheets. 

2. Give Cash for food purchase.

• Participate in the "Power of 7."
  • $7 = Feed a child for one week
  • $28 = Feed a child for one month
  • $252 = Feed a child for one school year
  • Other = Choose your own "Power of 7!"
• Go to Online Giving and enter your donation for Backpacks 4 Kids.

3. Donate food in the church lobby.
Wish List: Food items that are child friendly, easy to use and open with no preparation... **items of greatest need.

• **Hearty, Chunky-type soups with pull top lids
• **Individual mac & cheese (microwaveable)
• **Oatmeal envelopes
• Small, 100% juice boxes
• **Canned pasta meals with pull top lids (ravioli, spaghetti, etc.)
• Canned chili with pull top lids
• Fruit cups

• Peanut butter filled crackers
• Cheese filled crackers
• Granola bars
• Fruit snacks
• Single serving, shelf stable milk
• Peanut Butter—16oz jars

4. Host a food drive with your team, club, workplace or neighborhood
(contact Kristi for available months)

• Food Drive Kit: Business
• Food Drive Kit: School
• Food Drive Kit: Neighborhood
• Food List
• B4K Brochure​

Thanks for your support!

...do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. Hebrews 13:15-16

Our Savior Lutheran Church is thankful for financial support from the following:

• Foresters Financial
• Franklin Pierce Education Association
• Franz Bakery
• Klein Foundation
• MultiCare
• Columbia Bank
• CHI Franciscan
• United Way Power Packs
• Puyallup Food Bank
• Thrivent Financial