As important as these partnerships are, we also recognize our responsibility to roll up our sleeves and get to work so that we can “be a blessing” to others, demonstrating the love of God in practical ways. That’s why we are constantly on the look-out for other ways that we can reach beyond the walls of our church to make a positive difference in the life of our community. For example, Calvary has become a main supporter of the Franklin Elementary Backpack Program, a ministry of the school nearest our church, which fights child hunger by providing a weekend’s-worth of nutritious food to students from working families that are struggling to make ends meet. Other projects have included blood drives for the Red Cross, food drives for the local food bank, and "Servant Sunday," a bi-annual ministry emphasis in which we suspend our worship services so that we can worship through serving, fanning out across our community to bless others in a variety of ways.