On May 19, 2026, I had the honor of joining more than 60 people gathered in the mission space beneath the Sanctuary of Building A at Resurrection Leawood to finish up the 2025/2026 season of Backpacks for Hunger. This was a Backpacks fill event—where the bags that went to the schools were assembled.
The crowd moved through two long lines of food, filling one bag at a time and depositing it on the tying table. From there, the bags were tied, placed in tubs, and stacked on pallets to be delivered to the schools. Our amazing volunteer truck ministry team would deliver the tubs to the schools the next day. When we were done, we’d created over 1,900 bags for the final week of school!
In the 2025-2026 school year, Resurrection provided over 60,000 Backpacks for Hunger bags to kids in nine schools here in the Kansas City area on both sides of the state line.
Backpacks for Hunger has been operating in one form or another at Resurrection for the last 20+ years. Backpacks for Hunger is also part of Resurrection’s Vision 2030 goal of helping close the opportunity gap for food-insecure children in Kansas City elementary schools. Resurrection provides schools with enough bags for every student receiving free or reduced-price lunch to receive a bag of food. Each bag has a protein energy bar, popcorn, instant oatmeal, pudding, and many other items. The schools are helping provide for the students’ food needs during the school week—Backpacks is designed to help provide for them on the weekend.
At the end of the event, when all the bags were filled and in the tubs ready to go to the schools, we all placed our hands on one of the tubs, and we prayed over them. We prayed for the kids who would receive these bags and that they would sense God’s love and presence through this gift. We also thanked God for the opportunity to join in helping with God’s work on earth.
Backpacks for Hunger will be back in August as the new school year starts again. Then we’ll meet every week at Resurrection Leawood and once a month at Resurrection West on Serve Saturday (the third Saturday of the month during the school year). Watch HERE for the opportunity to join us in the 2026–2027 school year!
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