Blessfest is a project of GOImpact360 and our goal is to bring hope and meet the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of Southwest Detroit. The Blessfest is for people of all age, ethnicity, gender, and faith who live in Southwest Detroit. There will be free resources for families, seniors, veterans, homeless, single parents, and just about anyone. Each family will receive free groceries, a free hot lunch sponsored by Burger King, access to a free Resource Fair, prayer and resources at the Prayer Tent, and kids can play in our awesome Kid’s Zone with inflatables, Disney Characters, face painting, and more.
F.A.Q.
Everyone who lives in Southwest Detroit! Any race, ethnicity, faith, citizenship, and gender is welcome to this event and it’s 100% FREE.
Absolutely! We encourage you to invite ALL your friends and family to this event!
Everyone attending BLESSFEST will receive for FREE:
- The ability to meet Great Organizations serving your community.
- A hot lunch sponsored by Burger King
- A safe Kid’s Zone which has inflatables, face painting, games, Disney characters, and pony rides!
- Around 10 pounds of groceries. (per family)
- Access to free clothing at the Clothing Tent
- Get prayer and free resources at the Prayer Tent.
Nope! Just yourself, your friends, and family! You will receive a plastic bag to hold items from the Resource Fair and we’ll bag your groceries.
Registration only takes a few minutes. You can then spend as much time as you would like in the Resource Fair, Clothing Tent & Prayer Tent, and the Kid’s Zone. Lunch is served throughout.
Whenever you’re finished drive to the Groceries Station and we’ll load groceries into your vehicle! So really it’s up to you, you can stay as long as you’d like or leave as soon as you need to.
No need to register, just show up between 11:00am and 3:00pm!
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Resources
Forgotten Harvest
Detroit Area Agency On Aging
Karmanos Cancer Center
Karmanos staff and volunteers visit various venues conducive to informing individuals on ways to prevent cancer and its warning signs, and the very latest in screening, diagnostics, treatment and follow-up care through educational presentations, materials and displays.
PACE
Our goal is to provide our frail senior community members with the care, medical treatment and support they need to achieve the highest quality of life – while staying independent as long as possible.
www.pacesemi.org
Generation II Generation
Generation II Generation is a Home Visiting program for pregnant women and infants with Medicaid insurance. MIHP is a program for all Macomb, Oakland & Wayne County women with Medicaid health insurance who are pregnant and all infants with Medicaid. The MIHP program provides support to promote healthy pregnancies, good birth outcomes, and healthy infants.
website
Kindred at Home Hospice
Kindred at Home seeks to deliver quality professional medical, rehabilitative, palliative and end-of-life care for all patients, including those with acute, long-term or terminal needs.
www.kindredathome.com
Faith Recovery Center
Faith Recovery Center is a Social Service Agency offering transitional housing and permanent supportive housing for homeless and chronically homeless individuals. FRC caters to serving individuals in recovery from drugs and alcohol or who have mental illness.
www.faithrecoverycenter.com
Adult Well Being Sevices
Adult Well-Being Services is a Detroit non-profit that has provided quality services to individuals and families throughout Wayne County since 1953. Started as one of the first Senior Centers in the country, AWBS now provides services to individuals of all ages.
www.awbs.org
Gospel Against Aids
Our mission is to empower religious leaders to become change agents in their communities of faith by equipping them to provide on-site preventive education, technical assistance and outreach support to those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Rapid HIV/AIDS Testing with results in 15 minutes!
www.gospelaa.org
Right To Life Michigan
Nonsectarian, nonpartisan organization committed to articulating and protecting the right to life of all innocent human beings, born or unborn.
www.rtl.org
Southpoint Community Christian Church
Southpoint is a non-denominational, “Come as you are” church. We’re striving to be the kind of church described in the Bible — with engaging teaching, authentic worship, sincere friendships, heartfelt prayer, and compassionate care for those in need.
www.southpointccc.com
Southwest Solutions
Southwest Solutions has pursued its mission to help build a stronger and healthier community since 1972. We provide a broad range of programs in the areas of human development, economic development, and community engagement. These three areas together form a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy and effort that impacts more than 20,000 people a year.
www.swsol.org
Voyageur Academy
Voyageur Academy is a free, public charter school serving students in grades K-12, with students in grades 3-12 attending our campus across the street at Consortium College Preparatory High School. We are chartered by Ferris State University.
www.voyageuracademy.com
Beaumont Health
For more than 55 years, Beaumont has served the people of Metro Detroit and beyond. We have a deep commitment to provide the highest quality health care services to all of our patients safely, effectively and compassionately. We will be providing heart health screenings consisting of blood pressure, glucose, and cholesterol screenings.
www.beaumont.org
Michigan State University Extension Program
Michigan State University Extension helps people improve their lives through an educational process that applies knowledge to critical issues, needs and opportunities.Health & Nutrition Institute: We provide SNAP-Ed & EFNEP nutrition education based on the USDA MyPlate standard. Select staff also provide Bilingual (English/Spanish) nutrition education programs.
www.msue.anr.msu.edu
Wayne County S.A.F.E. Program
The mission of the S.A.F.E. program is to provide comprehensive and compassionate medical-forensic care to Wayne County survivors of sexual assault in a timely manner with immediate crisis advocacy, follow-up care & counseling, and provision of expert witness testimony.
www.wcsafe.org
Detroit Hispanic Development Coporation
Courage Church
Courage Church has a campus in the Mexicantown area of Detroit, as well as our founding campus in Hamtramck. We have a passion for the city and believe God is living and active within it! Our mission is to help spread the good news of Christ, which brings with it hope, purpose, revitalization, and passion for life.
www.couragechurch.com
Wayne Metro Community Action Agency
The mission of Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency is to
empower low-income people and strengthen communities.
www.waynemetro.org
LA Sed
Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development (LA SED), is a 5o1c3 non-profit agency serving Hispanics and residents of Southwest Detroit since 1969. LA SED assists people of all ages with variety of bilingual services.
www.lasedinc.org
DTE Energy
We will be providing information regarding our utility assistance program and much more.
www.newlook.dteenergy.com
First Spanish Baptist Church
La Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana es una iglesia bilingüe con miembros de 14 países que está alcanzando a una variedad de personas de la zona metropolitan de Detroit para Cristo.
First Spanish Baptist Church is a bilingual church with members from 14 countries that is reaching people for Christ from a wide variety of people in the Detroit metro area.
www.pibhdetroit.com
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