Hi, we are so thrilled you have found what started as just our family’s little passion project and has now grown into a non-profit that is able to bless the lives of hundreds of families within our community.

Shepherd’s Little Sheep began as a crazy idea between Matt & Ashley Byrd and Kelsey & Tyler Fry. In December of 2020 our family was going through the motions of an gut-wrenching, unexpected loss of Tyler & Ashley’s father, Frank Fry, while also juggling the weight of a life-threatening liver disease diagnosis with Tyler & Kelsey’s 3 month old, Shepherd.

While juggling the unknowns, and leaning heavy on our faith, we recognized the need there was to help families that were going through tragedies of their own. We started by creating blessing bags for families in our local children’s hospitals. With the help of our existing children’s hospital social workers and staff we decided to include the items that we found to be most helpful, including but not limited to, phone chargers, gas gift cards, door dash gift cards, journals, decent coffee, insulated cups, blankets, simple distractions and self care items, in hopes to bring a glimpse of joy to these families faces, even if just for a moment.

Since then, we have been able to create hundreds of these blessing bags as well as raise enough money in hopes to be able to bless individual needs within these families as the opportunities arise.

With the help of our incredible community and our sponsors, we have successfully raised almost $50,000 in our first three years and we are just getting started!

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.”