Backpack Program
OUMC routinely provides nearly 70 breakfasts and lunches for children who attend Galena Elementary School. For many of these children, the only regular source of food they receive is from the school meal service. The backpack ministry uses a combination of food donated from the Maryland Food Bank and purchased directly and the backpacks that are provided to these children provide breakfast and lunch for weekends and holidays when school meals are not provided. No child should have to know hunger and the backpack program helps to provide much needed assistance.