This is a slideshow we showed to our youth group to kick off our Blessing Bags Mission.

1. Our Home:
Kingsport, TN

2. But to some…

3. The streets of Kingsport
are their home.

4. 52,962 individuals lived in
Kingsport in 2013.

5. Of those individuals, 19.6%
were below the poverty level.

6. That equals to 10,381 people in our
community below the poverty level.
To put this in perspective, this would be about
• 9 times the amount of people in your county
high school

7. These people mostly live
without

8. The bible says we can help
Acts 20:35 NIV
“In everything I did, I showed you that
by this kind of hard work we must
help the weak, remembering the
words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It
is more blessed than to give than to
receive.’”

9. How?
1. We can cook them food.
2. We can give them our clothes.
3. We can volunteer at the shelter.
4. We can talk to them and be their
friends.
5. Most importantly, we can open our
bibles with them and share the good
news.

10. What are we doing tonight?

11. Blessing Bags For The Shades
Of Grace Ministry in
Downtown Kingsport

12. What is Shades of Grace?
“A church empowering the lost,
abandoned, and misplaced people of
the Kingsport area to meet Jesus
Christ and reach out to others with
the message of Love.”

13. Shades of Grace
• holds worship services
• houses the homeless on cold nights
• cooks meals and provides necessary items
for the hungry and in need
• provides high school equivalency courses
for those that want to learn
• holds the Get Real recovery ministry
• brings about a community of joy

14. This is Roy.
He told a
volunteer at
Shades of
Grace, “Thank
you for talking
to me.”

15. A
community
of joy and
fellowship.

16. Free to Worship

17. Love

19. Steps To Make The Blessing
Bags
1. Grab a Ziploc bag
2. Take one of each item on the table and fill
your bag up
3. Grab a marker, pen, and bible
4. Pick a verse to share with someone who will
receive that bag and write it on the paper
5. Put the paper in the bag and take a moment
to pray for the people who will receive it
6. Repeat all of the steps until all of the bags
are full

20. Last Thing
After you are finished, work together to
make a poster for the people of our
church to thank them for all of the
items they donated.

21. References
• http://images.classmates.com/pho107/n/z/Z/
d/11362444_display.jpg
• http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47/47
39560.html
• Pictures are from the Shades of Grace
Facebook. Some of the pictures are taken by
Amy Garst Archer.