Student Jetpacks

Weekend meal bags for students in local schools

Our Jetpack Program

provides nutritious, non-perishable food to hungry children of food-deficient households for the weekend during the school year.

More than 1400 students from over thirty local schools receive these backpacks every Friday.

The Well Outreach is so grateful to the local churches and businesses that sponsor our Jetpack program and provide volunteers each week to help pack them.

Packing Jetpacks is open to the community on an “as needed” basis. If you would like to sign your group up to pack Jetpacks, please reach out to Jetpack Program Director at Betsy@thewelloutreach.org

Jetpack Family Partnership

The Jetpack Family Partnership program gives families the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of local students who face food insecurity. Through this partnership, families can:

Sponsor one or more students at their child’s school for an entire year
Serve together as a family by packing Jetpacks
Experience hands-on opportunities to support local children in need

Families of all sizes and children of all ages are welcome! As a Jetpack Family Partner, your family will have monthly opportunities to serve together and experience the joy of making a lasting impact in our community.

Enroll Your Family

You can quickly and securely enroll your family in the Jetpack Family Partnership program by completing the form below. You will receive an email confirmation once you do so, and our Director of Jetpacks will follow up with you afterward.

Participating Schools

The Jetpack program has grown each year since its inception and now provides food to more than 30 schools in neighboring communities.

Allendale Elementary
Amanda H.North Elementary
Baker Elementary
Battle Creek Elementary
Battle Creek High School
Battle Creek Middle
Bethesda Elementary
Chapmans Retreat Elementary
Columbia Central
E.A. Cox Middle

Culleoka Unit School
Hampshire Unit School
Heritage Elementary
Heritage Middle
Highland Park Elementary
Independence High School
Longview Elementary
Marvin Wright Elementary
Mt. Pleasant Elementary
Mt. Pleasant High
Mt. Pleasant Middle

Northfield Academy
Randolph Howell Elementary
Spring Hill Elementary
Spring Hill High
Spring Hill Middle
Spring Station Middle
Summit High
Thompson’s Station Elementary
Thompson’s Station Middle
Whitthorne Middle
Woodard Elementary

If you have a child in one of the schools listed above and would like to enroll them in the Jetpack project, you can register them by reaching out to your school’s counselor or administrative staff.

Jetpack Sponsors

Jetpack sponsors play a vital role in helping local students thrive by providing funding for weekend meals throughout the school year. Many sponsors also serve hands-on by helping pack and deliver Jetpacks, ensuring children in our community can count on having food when they need it most.

We are grateful for our 2026–27 school year Jetpack Sponsors, listed below.

C1 Church

Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church

Church of the City

Columbia Machine Works

Elevate Dance Studio

First Baptist Spring Hill

First Presbyterian Church Spring Hill

Gateway Church

GrooveLife

Lifehouse Church

Maury Hills Church

McEwen Group

Restoration Church

Smelter Service Corporation

Southern Springs Community

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church- Franklin

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

The Church at Spring Hill

The Church of Station Hill

Thompson Station Church

Wellspring Christian Church

Interested in becoming a Jetpack Sponsor? We welcome partnerships of any size to help provide weekend meals for local children facing food insecurity. To learn more, please reach out to the Director of Jetpack Program at Betsy@thewelloutreach.org. We would be honored to partner with you!

Snack Stash Program

The Well’s Snack Stash program provides a bin full of snacks to schools to distribute to students whose families struggle to provide school snacks for them. Bins are refilled as needed. Currently, there are 30 schools participating in this program. Items needed for the Snack Stash program are individual packages of: