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Backpack Program

Serve at Southwood Serve in the Community

Southwood partners with the Food Bank of Lincoln to help distribute food to Saratoga Elementary School students.

There are three ways to be involved with Backpacks:
Packing:
  • Sundays at Noon in Southwood's Meeting Room
  • volunteers are scheduled to serve once every 5-6 weeks
Transporting:
  • Thursdays at 1 PM from Southwood to Saratoga Elementary
  • volunteers are scheduled to serve once every 4-5 weeks
Distributing:
  • Fridays at 1 PM at Saratoga Elementary
  • volunteers are scheduled to serve once every 4-5 weeks
These volunteer opportunities at Southwood are pre-scheduled.
Signing up here will connect you to our volunteer leaders who will provide specific details for serving and add you to the schedule.

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Questions?
Please Contact:

Malissa Pauling

mpauling@southwoodlutheran.org

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Christmas Giving Trees at Southwood

Giving Trees are up and filled with Christmas wish tags from our Mission Partners and Southwood Families and Community Members. By taking a tag from the trees at Southwood or online and returning the requested gift, you will brighten Christmas for someone in difficult circumstances.

Your kindness and generosity will help

  • Friendship Home – women and children escaping abuse
  • Saratoga Elementary students
  • Tabitha residents
  • Lutheran Family Services - refugee families
  • Regional Center residents
  • Children in Tanzania or Honduras
  • Mourning Hope – children grieving the loss of a loved one
  • Someone in our church experiencing crisis

Online tags are available here, where you can have items shipped directly to Southwood:  Online Giving Trees

Bring your new, unwrapped gift (with the Giving Tree tag attached) to the bins at Southwood Central by December 7 to have them delivered to our partners and families in time for Christmas.