Here is a Blessing of the Backpacks event you can do in church at the start of the school year to remind students that God blesses them each day of their lives as they reach out in faith as a blessing to others. This kit includes instructions for coordinating and presenting a 10-minute event, a script to bless the backpacks, a children’s sermon, tear-off notes for parents to put in their children’s backpacks and 10 luggage tags for the children to attach to their backpacks that feature the theme, “Live By the Spirit,” and Galatians 5:22-23.