Backpack Blessings at Bethlehem

Last Sunday, students, teachers and staff stood front and center at Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Royal to be honored and prayed for during the congregation's annual Blessing of the Backpacks service.

Each year Bethlehem's Milestone Ministry team brings forward those with any affiliation to the school year ahead. Teachers and students representing Clay Central/Everly, Sacred Heart, Sioux Central and Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn were present with backpacks in tow to receive words of faith blessing them in the school year ahead.

Students were gifted a bag filled with treats, a Christian pencil and Christian key chain for their backpacks, all reminders of God's immense love for them. They then gathered afterward for the children's sermon, reminding them of their baptism into the Lord's family.