Brown Bag Blessings Program feeds dozens of students during the summer

DAVE GORGON

Wyandotte students who qualify for free lunch during the school year may not have such a meal waiting for them at home when school ends. But thanks to the Wyandotte Ministerial Association, there is such a thing as a free lunch during the summer.

The Brown Bag Blessing program is a local offshoot of the national Blessings in a Backpack program, which provides lunch during the school year but is not available in the summer.

Pastor Tom Ferguson of St. Stephen Episcopal Church in Wyandotte said churches in the ministerial association collect different food items and deliver lunches to Roosevelt High School, Washington Elementary School and the Bacon Library – about 100 brown bags in all.