Back to school

By Teagan King, Wisconsin State Journal – There’s a lot of prep work into getting schools ready for another year. Decorating bulletin boards, sharpening pencils, printing worksheets … For the last couple of weeks, more than 300 volunteers put in about 930 hours of service helping with these and other tasks, part of a growing volunteer project known as Love Dane, a partnership between more than 20 Dane County churches and Madison-area schools to prepare for the start of the school year. This year, 26 churches are registered to participate at schools around Dane County. Read more of this story.

By David Dahmer – Madison365 – End Time Ministries International, in partnership with Families Back to the Table Inc. and Darren and Shoney Pruitt, owners of The Nutrition Lounge in Rockford, Illinois, partnered to give away over 300 backpacks filled with school supplies to children in the Madison area during the annual End Time Back to School giveaway and mini-carnival on Saturday, Aug. 16. “We strategized and pooled our resources together,” Bishop Godfrey Stubbs of End Time Ministries International tells Madison365. “We had a budget of $5,000, and although we went a little over, we didn’t mind because we genuinely…

By Fred Grossenbach – Backpack drives are taking place all over the city as school openings approach.  This year Lighthouse Christian School and Church partnered with Christ Church Madison to “take it up a notch” to bless the community in multiple ways. Christ Church provided over 300 backpacks. Assisted by a generous grant from the Madison Christian Giving Fund, Lighthouse provided free school supplies.  Pencils, pens, notebooks and calendars were available for free on a first come first served basis. But there was more: a bouncy slide and face painting for the kids, a taco truck, music and the Extended…