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Carrying love on their backs
Mission program sends kids home with weekend of food for family
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Blane Dixon, left,and Josh Lineberry load backpacks Friday for delivery to needy students at Hall County and Gainesville schools. - photo by Tom Reed
If you saw a student carrying a backpack home on a Friday afternoon, you probably wouldn’t give it a second thought. If you did, you’d think he’s just using the pack to carry his school books and homework, not enough food to feed his family all weekend until school starts again Monday. But every Friday, nearly 400 students in Gainesville and Hall County schools are able to do just that through the Backpack Love ministry sponsored by area churches and SS Revolutions Ministry, a nonprofit organization in Gainesville.