Copper Country Angel Mission - School Backpack Program 2023
The Copper Country Angel Mission has welcomed back their School Backpack Program for 2023! Every year, the Angel Mission offers students that need school supplies a backpack filled with grade appropriate items.
Students and parents can sign up at the store to receive a backpack until the end of August. Registration forms for the School Backpack Program at the Angel Mission Free Store, 433 Fifth Street in Calumet. Angel Mission Free Store hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11-2. If you can't make it into the store, call (906) 934-2226 and leave your name and number with a brief message. Registration ends at the end of August 2023.
Donations are still needed!
The Angel Mission is also in need of donations of school supplies to help give each student a successful start to the school year. They are still in need of:
TI 30XIIS Calculators for middle schoolers
Water bottles
Pens
Pencils
Spiral notebooks (single subject)
Composition notebooks
Other general school supplies
The program happily accepts cash donations so they can purchase last minute supplies for the backpacks. Donations can be made at the store or online: https://www.ccangelmission.org/
About the Copper Country Angel Mission
Over 20 years ago, Rebecca Koivu, lay-pastor of the Community Church in Calumet, and a small group of individuals, brimming with faith and compassion, realized that together they could effectively help to overcome local effects of poverty. They launched New Beginnings Angel Mission, which later became a mission of Portage Lake United Church, Inc. in Houghton with strong and generous support from the Presbytery of Mackinac. Since then, they have grown, broadened support, changed their name, and become an independent 501-c-3 corporation but the mission is the same: Copper Country Angel Mission promotes community welfare by serving those in need with compassion and dignity.