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2022-2023 Community Outreach Project

Holy Spirit is continuing its commitment to Blessings in a Backpack a year-long community outreach program supported by the parish and school families. Blessings in a Backpack provides food on the weekends for school-aged children across America who might otherwise go hungry.

The local school we will sponsor this year is Field Elementary, which is less than a mile from Holy Spirit. At Field, 80 children qualify for the Blessings in a Backpack program, and, with our help, every child will leave school on Friday with a backpack full of food!

Join us on Sundays after 10 a.m. mass to pack food for the Field students. Volunteer opportunities are for of all ages, including children. Click here to sign up.

In January 2022, Holy Spirit started the Blessings in a Backpack at Cordia School in Hazard, Kentucky, providing weekend food for 100 children. “Thanks so very much for reaching out to the students of Cordia School,” said FRYSC Director Marlea Cornett. “Many blessings to everyone that helped with this program.”

Blessings volunteers

Holy Spirit parishioners volunteer after mass. 

Click here to volunteer after mass

Because of your generous support, we have the funds to start the 2022–2023 school year by providing Blessings in a Backpack to 80 children at Field Elementary and 100 children at Cordia School.

The total cost to fund both programs, and ensure hunger-free weekends for 180 kids, is $23,400. We are starting the school year with $12,060 in our fund balance; our fundraising goal for this year is $8,440 — $2,900 for Field Elementary and $5,540 for Cordia School.

It takes as little as $130/year to feed one child on the weekends for one school year (38 weekends). You can donate to Blessings in a Backpack by:

  • Making an online donation below.
  • Writing a check payable to Blessings in a Backpack (BE SURE to indicate HOLY SPIRIT in the memo line of the check) and mailing it to:
    Blessings in Backpack
    P.O. Box 950291
    Louisville, KY 40295
  • Creating a Facebook Fundraiser. BE SURE to indicate Field Elementary or Cordia School in the title so the funds will be restricted to the program.
Cordia students with food

Children with their weekend food.

“You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works.”
– Pope Francis

Click here to read: Holy Spirit helps ease childhood hunger, educate parish community about poverty

Your Impact During the 2021–2022 School Year!

Blessings Impact 2021/22

Thank you from the bottom of our backpacks!

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