The Christian Community Service Center’s (CCSC) Back To School program returned this fall to help prepare children in the community to begin a new school year. The annual event provided new school supplies, backpacks, and clothing gift cards to more than 4,000 students in pre-K through 12th grade. Since 1986, CCSC has collected and distributed supplies to children. Families registered for the event at Bellaire United Methodist Church and supplies were distributed at Faith Lutheran Church with the help of hundreds of volunteers.

Pictured are 2025 CCSC Back To School committee members (top row, from left) Sara Hans, Alma Lopez, Jessica Canizales, Priscilla Aguilar, Karen Womack, Terri Drabik-O’Reilley, Amy Holmes, Sarah Lopez, Anne Stewart; (bottom row, from left) Kenya Rodriguez, Shellyn Shoenthal, Leisa Novak (chair), Miriam Zatarain, Elizabeth Detweiler, Perla Kenley, and Courtney Lerch; not pictured: Maria Berretta and Whitney Anderson.