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Student Essentials Drive

We're building 24 baskets of everyday essentials for students at two campuses here in Burbank, the University of Redlands, Los Angeles and the New York Film Academy, before fall classes begin. Items are due Sunday, August 23. Watch the progress live, and add yours to the count.

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One of each item in every one of 24 baskets.

Items are due Sunday, August 23. We'll assemble the baskets together that morning, following Morning Worship.

Live — updates as purchases are reported

How It Works

Three simple steps

01

Pick an item

Choose anything below that still needs purchases — the bars show exactly where help is needed most. Each card's quantity comes straight from our Amazon list.

02

Purchase it

Every item links straight to the product. Buying through our Amazon registry ships it to us and marks it purchased there — or pick it up at any store and bring it along on a Sunday.

Open the Amazon registry →
03

Mark it here

Tap “I bought this” on the item so the tracker updates for everyone — whichever way you purchased.

Body wash

eos, vanilla, 16 fl oz

0 of 24 purchased

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Laundry detergent pods

Tide Pods, 42 ct — one bag per basket

0 of 24 purchased

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Flower hair clips

6-piece set — covers 6 baskets

0 of 4 purchased

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Permanent markers

Sharpie, 12 ct — covers 12 baskets

0 of 2 purchased

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Colored index cards

250 ct, 3x5, with key ring

0 of 24 purchased

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Silk pillowcase

Mulberry silk, standard

0 of 24 purchased

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Microfiber cleaning cloths

Pack of 12

0 of 8 purchased

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Flushable wipes

DUDE Wipes, 3 packs — covers 3 baskets

0 of 8 purchased

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Facial tissue

Puffs, 18 cube boxes — covers 18 baskets

0 of 2 purchased

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Throw blanket, white

Bedsure GentleSoft — one blanket per basket, half white

0 of 12 purchased

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Throw blanket, beige

Bedsure GentleSoft — one blanket per basket, half beige

0 of 12 purchased

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Felt tip pens

Paper Mate Flair, 24-count set — one for each basket

0 of 24 purchased

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USB desk fan

5.5 in, 3 speeds

0 of 24 purchased

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Stain remover pen

Tide To Go, 3 ct — covers 3 baskets

0 of 8 purchased

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Closet organizers

Pack of 6 — covers 6 baskets

0 of 4 purchased

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Command hooks

Command, 2 hooks + 4 strips — one pack per basket

0 of 24 purchased

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Academic planner

Aug 2026 to Dec 2027

0 of 24 purchased

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Fineliner color pens

24-count set — one for each basket

0 of 24 purchased

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Spiral notebooks

3 pcs, 5x7 — covers 3 baskets

0 of 8 purchased

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Bath towel set, navy

Set of 6 (2 bath, 2 hand, 2 wash) — covers 2 baskets

0 of 12 purchased

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Disinfecting wipes

Lysol, 4 canisters — covers 4 baskets

0 of 6 purchased

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Surge protector power strip

6 outlet

0 of 24 purchased

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Velvet hangers

30-pack — about 5 hangers per basket

0 of 4 purchased

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Laundry basket

Sterilite, 24-pack — one purchase covers all 24 baskets

0 of 1 purchased

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Pop-up laundry hamper

70L, 2-pack — covers 2 baskets

0 of 12 purchased

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Mesh shower caddy

9 pockets

0 of 24 purchased

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The count is on the honor system — mark only what you've actually purchased. Bought something and made a mistake? Use Undo right after, or let us know and we'll correct it. In-store purchases can come along with you any Sunday morning. We ask for a name and phone number with each report so we can follow up if something doesn't arrive in time; see our privacy policy.

Our Neighbors

Two campuses, right down the road

Within a couple of miles of where Covenant Church meets for worship, two colleges fill up with students every fall.

University of Redlands, Los Angeles

Burbank has known it as Woodbury University. It began in 1884 as a business college in downtown Los Angeles, and moved to Burbank in 1987, onto the 22-acre campus it has occupied ever since. This summer the school completed a merger with the University of Redlands that had been underway since 2024, and the campus is now the University of Redlands, Los Angeles. The Woodbury name continues in its schools of architecture, business, and design. The campus, its programs, and its students remain right where they have always been.

Fewer than a thousand students study across its four schools of business, architecture, liberal arts, and media and design, with roughly eight students for every faculty member. Most commute in from around the Valley. About a quarter live on campus, in two residence halls.

New York Film Academy

A couple of miles the other way, on Riverside Drive in Burbank's media district, is the Los Angeles campus of the New York Film Academy. It opened in 1999 on the Universal Studios backlot and has since become the school's main campus, where students earn certificates and degrees in filmmaking, screenwriting, animation, game design, photography, and acting. Production workshops still take students over to the Universal backlot nearby.

The Film Academy has no dormitories. Its housing office helps students find apartments around the neighborhood instead, which means many of them arrive needing to set up a whole home, not just a dorm room. Towels, a laundry basket, something to sleep under.

Items need to be in hand by Sunday, August 23, when we'll put the baskets together as a church following Morning Worship. Fall terms begin the week after, with the University of Redlands, Los Angeles starting classes on Monday, August 31. The hope is that a student walking into a new room finds towels, a blanket, pens and notebooks, and some evidence that a church down the road is glad that they chose Burbank for education.

Covenant Church is on mission as a church of prayer, worship, and love for our city. Both of those campuses are part of our city. A laundry basket packed with ordinary things lets students know that we're thinking of them, praying for them, and inviting them to be a part of this growing church.

Students, You're Invited

Whichever campus you're at, you have a church a couple of miles away.

We worship every Sunday morning at 10:00 AM and again in the evening at 6:00 PM, at 160 S Victory Blvd. Come as you are, and sit wherever you like. On the last Sunday of every month the whole church stays for lunch together, and there is always a place at that table for a student. If you'd like someone to look for when you walk in, write to us and we'll be watching for you.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Galatians 6:10 · ESV