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What are Chatbots and Why They are Important for Your Business

There is a profound buzz about Chatbots that they will transform the way people do business and communicate with their customers. We all have used chatbots knowingly or unknowingly but, still, we are not entirely sure, what are they and why they are important for our business?.

These fundamental questions led me to write this article. So, I will start with a concise definition of a chatbot. It is basically an automated computer program that simulates human conversation through voice…

2018 Souper Bowl

This year our Junior Youth and Senior Youth groups went head to head to see who could collect the most items for Boyertown Multi-service. The Senior Youth won, with a total of 364 items being collected by both groups during our two worship services. The youth also stood at the door ways at the end of both worship services with empty pots and collected $156 for Boyertown Multiservice. After the food and money were collected and packed into Pastor Kim's car the youth participated in a lunch…

CARING FOR OTHERS

OUR MISSIONARY SOCIETY HELP DONATE SNACKS AND BLANKETS TO THE CANCER CENTER.

Herb Bernett- KAIR - an organization in the Florida Keys (Marathon) that helps people in need.

2018 x We collected$1480 in memory of Herb Bernett who worked at our designated charity KAIR- Keys Area interdenominational Resoures for years.

Our 2018 Collection Updates...

For the last few years the RHPC congregation has donated monies and dry goods to a local food panty, The Way Station.
We love this organization's mission and staff....they make our community whole by caring and sharing.
Although, they are chiefly sponsored by another church in the community...we at RHPC feel a responsibility to support this mission as our own!
The numerous Scouting groups who utilize our church facilities ( Cub, Boy, Girl, Adventure Crew) also show their support for The…

Feeding 2000 Utahans for a Day!

Freedom Preparatory Academy's high school student council attended a Community Action meeting early in the 2017-18 school year. There our students and advisors learned about the hunger that members of our community faced every single day and how doing a project for the Souper Bowl of Caring could help. We learned that with local food connections, Community Action of Provo could feed a family of four for a day, and that started us thinking of ways we could raise money and help fight hunger in…

David and Goliath

Our whole church got so involved this year! Last year our small church in KS (about 20-25 regulars) donated 180 cans. We challenged ourselves to 200 cans this year. We exceeded our goal - donations were 280 cans!!!
We had a poster up at the front of the church of Goliath - and explained that Goliath represented hunger - and our small little group represented little David. WE had to be strong - and fight hunger. We piled the cans up in front of the poster each week as they came in - and…

Souper Bowl of Caring in Grant County South Dakota

The 4th annual Souper Bowl of Caring in Grant County (South Dakota) filled the Grant County Food Pantry shelves to overflowing after our collection on Super Bowl Sunday. Over 500 items were collected in the churches in our community (the exact number is unknown as unmarked sacks of groceries were left outside the Food Pantry Monday morning, in addition to those donations from the churches). Donations of $349 in cash were received, including $41 from a bake sale held by the Boy Scouts of…

Sunday School kids offer Hope

Because of epic snowfall on Feb. 4, it took a couple of Sundays for Gloria' Dei's Sunday School class to reach and exceed their modest goal of $100. Seven-year-old Mackenize took the microphone during parish announcements, and proudly proclaimed on behalf of her classmates and in keeping with that Sunday's lesson on the work of angels, "We are angels and we are collecting for children's programs at Hope Ministries." Our members opened their hearts and pocketbooks over the next two weeks,…

SOUPERSTARS - BATTLE OF THE BANDS!

We divided the congregation into 2 teams based on the month of birth. Members born January through June were the Kings and Queens of Country and members born July through December were the Royalty of Rock and Roll. Whichever team collected the greatest number of cans of soup (or cash equivalent at the rate of $1=1 can) between January 1 and Super Bowl Sunday would be declared the winner. The Kings and Queens of Country won the competition by a final score of 900 to 802. As the losing team,…

Another generous year!

We were able to collect $260 to donate to our local food bank - this from only 11 individuals! We may be small - and elderly (we have no one under 50) - but our heart is in helping the many who are hungry in this area. North Pend Oreille County has one of the highest unemployment rates in the State of Washington, and our poverty level is extremely high (more than 60% of our students qualify for free breakfast/lunch in our school district), but those of us who can, do. And the Souper Bowl is…

Soup+Soup=Awesome Souper Bowl

Our small congregation has been participating since 2012 by collecting soup for our local Food Pantry, St. Barbara's. Our goal was 251 cans of soup, a 28 can increase from last year. The congregation responded to our 2 youths announcements and we brought in 337 cans of soup and $10.-Yeah!

Souper Bowl of Caring 2018

On Sat. and Sunday, Feb. 3 and 4, 2018, our team of youth and adult volunteers from Peace Presbyterian Church and Hope Church in Pearland, TX, solicited donations from Kroger #308 and Randalls at 518. We collected cash, bags of food, and "virtual" bags from shoppers to support Christian Helping Hands Food Pantry in Pearland, TX. Altogether at Kroger we collected the equivalent of $4875 at Kroger #308. Our team at Randall's was led by Stacey Perez and they collected 279 virtual bags for a…

Sharing and spending time with the Sick and Shut

The Conway Circuit YPDers decided to prepare dinner and eat with the Pack Family for our Souper bowl of caring mission.The Pack Family are members of our church Hemingway CHAPEL AMEC and have been sick off and on for the pass three years.
After our Pastor Rev. Ron Taylor served the holy communion we (Ypders and other members of the church stewards,trustees and missionaries) feasted and fellowshiped with the Pack's.
They enjoyed and appreciated it and we really enjoyed it just being there…

Community Soup Lunch

This year the youth group decided to host a free Community Soup Lunch on Souper Bowl of Caring Sunday. 7 large pots of soup were donated by members of the congregation. We served a bowl of soup, a small roll, a glass of water and a cookie to everyone who attended. Our church hosts Manna House, a community soup kitchen 5 days a week and a second program, Bread of Life, on Saturdays. Many of our weekday guests joined us on Sunday for the lunch. The youth group put out baskets for folks to…

Souper Bowl of Caring For Jones AME Praise And Worship Center

We so far have collected $95 and a few can goods to donate to our Food Pantry.

The challenge

10yrs ago when I was at another church, two young people in youth group came up with a "challenge" to go with our monetary collection on the day of the big game. The "challenge" was to have all our Sunday School classes compete to see who could donate the most soup in the 4 weeks leading up to the big game. The winning class would have breakfast prepared by our youth group.
Fast forward to 2014, and my family is now at Schwarzwald Lutheran Church. A thriving faith community with…