by Helen Gibson, posted Tuesday, July 31, 2018 (6 years ago)
Photo by Marilyn Stewart
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Earlier this summer, Kay Bennett received a phone call that left her with some exciting news.
Bennett is the executive director of Baptist Friendship House, a Send Relief ministry center in the heart of New Orleans. Each year, her organization hosts a back-to-school bash, in which they celebrate the beginning of a new school year and give backpacks filled with school supplies to about 600 children living in poverty.
But plans for this year's back-to-school event suddenly multiplied when Bennett got a call from Send Relief, a ministry of the North American Mission Board, offering to donate 5,000 backpacks to the cause. Read More