{"id":3854,"date":"2022-05-16T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitsforacause.com\/featured-kit-packer-2\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:02:33","slug":"featured-kit-packer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitsforacause.com\/featured-kit-packer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Kit Packer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet Kristin Finch \u2013 she is the Outreach & eGroups Director <\/em>for Elevation Church Toronto and is a Kit packing aficionado! We recently sat down with Kristin *virtually* to understand how Kit packing allows her church and members to connect with their mission and the community around them.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What\u2019s your cause? Why do you Kit pack?
\n<\/strong>We partner with 38 organizations around the city all year round! Every summer we intentionally set aside one week and go all out in blessing our partner organizations with supplies. This year with COVID, we wanted to bless many of them with some much-needed items and we wanted to do it on a bigger scale than we ever have before because we know the need is great. We were able to pack over 800 backpacks\u00a0to support children and youth heading back to school\u00a0and 2000 hygiene kits which will be distributed to shelters across the city.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>We pack kits because we want others to feel loved, seen and supported during\u00a0this time. COVID has caused lots of financial challenges and many do not have access to resources they\u00a0may have had before. We know that these kits can make a big difference in an individual\u2019s life because it reminds them that there is someone who cares for them. Kit packing also engages people at our church and allows them to learn about the organizations we partner with and in turn increases their passion to serve and help others. We do outreach events all year long but with COVID, our church building has been closed and a lot of organizations have closed their doors to groups but that wasn\u2019t going to stop us from serving, loving other people and showing our partner organizations that we want to continue to support them on their mission.<\/p>\n