Send the kids off into the 2024-25 school year with a backpack full of blessings, courtesy of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, in Waretown.

School supplies are essential to student success. St. Stephen’s believes all children, regardless of their family’s financial situation, are entitled to a backpack and, as such, the congregation is helping to make that happen.

Beginning Monday, Aug. 25, the church will distribute children’s backpacks – all of them stuffed with school supplies – to 100 local children.

Families in need are welcome to come to the church Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:30 a.m.