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Romney Methodist church, Romney WV spearheaded the annual Souper Bowl of Caring for Hampshire County

Our church contacted eight other churches and four organizations to hop on board for our annual food drive for the local food pantry. We had exercise groups, scouts and a local bank plus the churches. We were very pleased with the collection this year. Mnk

Soup and Cracker Smackdown!

Our congregation turned our Souper Bowl of Caring food drive into a friendly month-long competition, dividing into 2 teams based on the month of your birth. We collected cash, cans of soup, and boxes of crackers for our charity. In the end, the Campbell's Crusaders defeated the Progresso Pirates by a score of 919-763. We collected a total of 1068 cans of soup, 69 boxes of crackers, and $545 in cash for the Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry!

Small congregation, huge heart

As the years pass, we look around in the pews each Sunday at Gloria Dei and see more grey hair (or just less hair). more folks taking a bit longer to shuffle up the aisles, and sad to say, more empty places where "Bill" or "Susan" or "Martha" or ... used to occupy faithfully. Yet, each year, our generous members drop dollars and dimes into the soup kettles held by our young acolytes and servers. This year, our congregation, which puts feeding the hungry right at the top of its social ministry…

Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Dillsboro, IN

Our church has an aging, but active 15 members, that are young at heart! We enjoy collection soup for Souper bowl. We also collect fruit for the Final Four and cereal for the World Series. It is a great way for us to "Defeat" food insecurities in our community.

BAMBY

The Huntington City Mission is dear to the heart of our youth. this year, with Soup pot collections AND donations collected from a BBQ dinner at church we were excited to collect over $1800 for the mission.

In an effort to help the food bank, Youth Ministries (BAMBY) challenged childrens Ministries in a Cereal Collection Drive. The collected cereal was donated to the FAcing Hunger Food bank. The winning team will be awarded the Silver Spoon and be served Ice cream by the other team

Our Big Game

Our church is has a relatively small congregation with an average attendance of 40 to 45 members on Sunday mornings and only 4 youth in our Teen Class. This year we had members sign up to join either Team Chicken or Team Tomato and then bring in items to support their team. We started accepting donations the middle of Jan. While Team Tomato was in the lead for much of the time Team Chicken made an amazing come back to tie the game. Both teams collected an amazing 314 food items.

The…

Awesome Girl Scouts!

Our awesome 2nd grade Girl scouts of Eduardo Mata Montessori held a donation drive at school, and also personally donated pantry items. These girls rocked it!

Our project: teens supporting teens

The Soup Bowl of Caring project was held on February 1 and 2 to raise money to support a meal at the Huckleberry House. In the end we raised $1262.00, minus $60 for supplies. In addition, we used $249.72 of $250.00 that was from a Thrivent Action Team Impact Card to support this project. So, the grand total raised was $1202.00. We sold homemade soups, sub sandwiches, and snack mixes on Super Bowl Sunday before, in-between and after services. Our youth and youth leaders solicited our youth…

Souper Bowl of Caring -- Knock Out Hunger

This year our friendly competition was led by Souper Heroes who helped us to see ways that we can Knock Out Hunger. Visitors came to our worship each Sunday to inspire us to give. On Souper Bowl Sunday, our kids dressed as Souper Heroes and took up a "noisy offering" to collect money in addition to the items we collected. Our local food pantry had a great need for personal hygiene items this year, so that was the focus of our collection. All items and monies were donated to the food pantry…

The Blessing Box

St. Paul United Methodist Church is located in a Food desert in East Winston Salem. The evangelism ministry of the church placed a blessing box on the corner for persons to receive or donate food as they desired. We have noticed a large number of children taking things from the box particularly in the afternoon once they get off of the school bus. The larger food pantries in the city do not focus on this side of town but give to all of the city. We decided that an area with limited food…

Christ Present in the Community

We always enjoy the Souper Bowl of caring and helping others. The youth enjoy wearing their favorite team jersey as well as the congregation. All donations are given to our local food bank, the Community Food Bank. We always want to bless others. We are Christ Present in the Community!

Souper Bowl of Caring collection at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, North Fort Myers, FL

The United Methodist Women group at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in North Fort Myers, FL have conducted the Souper Bowl of Caring collection at all three services the weekend of Super Bowl, for many years. The collection is given to the Harry Chapin Food Bank in Ft. Myers, FL. We put your flyers in the bulletins, post the poster, and explain about the Souper Bowl of Caring and the food bank at the services and in the church newsletter. The people were generous and this year $1300…

2020 Souper Bowl of Caring

Our church group collected food items as well as monetary donations. This year we had two football helmets for collecting monetary donations. One helmet represented the San Francisco 49ers and the other helmet represented the Kansas City Chiefs. Church members were asked to place their monetary donations in the helmet of the team they felt would win the Super Bowl. The results were that more money was placed in the Kansas City Chiefs helmet. Our church predicted that the Kansas City…

Souper Bowl of Caring

St. John's Lutheran Church collected $534.00 Cash for Souper Bowl of Caring for St. John's Lutheran Church Parish Food Pantry and 343 food items.

Sister Church

Trinity has been participating in Souper Bowl of Caring for several years now. We are a small church in a small town but we have big hearts!

This year Trinity UMC shared a pastor with Glenville Presbyterian Church and they wanted to join us in the Souper Bowl campaign.

For 4 weeks in January and February, both churches collected specific food group items for our local Community Resources food pantry. Each week, both churches presented short skits - often adapted from Souper Bowl…

Youth Report For 2020

Our Cedar Run Youth will be sending $300 to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. We also will be sending $300 to The Broadway Presbyterian Church Food Bank. Our total for this year is $600. Our church has been collecting food items for several years for the Broadway Presbyterian Food Bank.

Helping Others

The Burlington-Graham chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. supported Souper Bowl of Caring 2020 in a small but mighty way by having every Jack & Jill donate $5.00 or 5 canned goods in support of the Caring Kitchen in Burlington, NC and God's Store House in Danville, VA. Our 35 Jacks & Jills collected 170 canned goods along with $15.00 at their January Age Group Activitiy and the Mother's Business meeting!

Our Church Family

These are the people that donated, the food that was donated, and the receipt from where we donated our proceeds.

All grown up

Our youth who used to participate in collecting food and money for the "Pay It Forward" Food Pantry have all grown up.
However we are still collecting cans of soup and money and having a soup and sandwich lunch on "Souper Bowl Sunday" and enjoying it very much.

Souper Bowl at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church

Our youth group made soup and chili and sold it to raise money for our local soup kitchen. Our congregation got on board, ordered the soup / chili and took it home after worship to eat during the Super Bowl.

Souper Day at the Diner

Year three of original skit! Customers at diner are now also volunteers at the Addison Township Food Pantry and the diner owner decided he should volunteer, too! Three main performers and some audience participation! Collected money in large soup pot! We collect quarters the first Sunday of every month and that all goes to our food pantry. We have a good number of members who volunteer at the pantry also. In addition we serve at Feed my Starving Children at least once a year and about 25 to 30…

Groundhogs Day Fun/Pun

Since the Super Bowl was on Groundhog's day this year, and because we live in Pennsylvania, home of the world's greatest weather prognosticator, we felt the need to promote the Souper Bowl of Caring with a variety of groundhog related puns. The people of our congregation always practice Punxsutawney Phil-Anthropy. Therefore we didn't have to shadow anyone to get them to chuck in a contribution. Yes, we have a Punxsutawney Phil-Osophy of giving.

OK, that's it. We promise.

Souper Bowl 2020 at Hope Lutheran

Thanks Hope for making a difference! You predicted correctly the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl. The Chiefs table won our competition with 98 food items and $140. The 49ners donors gave 51 food items and $40. All donations benefit the Genesis Food Pantry.

jack and Jill of America, Inc. MLK Day of Service at NAM

On Saturday, January 25, 2020, the NHS Jack and Jill of America, Inc. children and teens had the most amazing community service project in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The MLK Day of Service benefitted Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM). Our TOPs teens worked in the Resale Shop sorting and shelving items, our L&G youth & moms delivered groceries to home bound seniors for the Meals on Wheels program, and our P&Ps made special hand crafted notes to be delivered with the packaged…