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Day Worker's Lunches

St. Hilary's Episcopal Church provides lunches for from 50 to 75 workers each week. These are the men who wait , sometimes all day, at hardware stores or in parking lots to pick up day work to help support their families.

Our church provides sack lunches that include a sandwich, chips, fruit, cookies, protein bars, water and often other items as they become available. We also serve hot coffee at each stop.

Several of our Sunday School pupils have helped put together these lunches. The…

One person makes a huge difference

We made a Facebook post about having a peanut butter drive for Souper bowl of Caring and there was a sale at a local grocery store. One person asked her Facebook friends to donate $20 and she would pick it up and take care of delivering everything. That one little post turned into 840 jars of peanut butter! The ripple effect of one person is amazing!!

What to look at when opting for co Working Offices?

Co working spaces was an alien concept in India till a few years back. However, with the passage of time more and more people are actually discovering the various virtues of sharing a work space. Right from saving on overhead costs to meeting the brightest talent under one roof there are actually many positives of sharing a work space. However, since it is a relatively new concept we still need to understand that what are the factors that we need to keep in mind when opting for a co working…

Matching Donor

This year we had an anonymous matching donor who pledged to match all funds we collected up to $2,000, and he did. That accounted for increased interest and our highest total ever of $2,520. It generated a lot of excitement!

MLK DAY OF SERVICE

Food Pantry Donations at New Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. Moms, Teens,
Children and Guests presented food donations to church food pantry. Helped stock pantry
and other assistance as needed. Food pantry donations complied with "Souper Bowl of
Caring" national program and was be registered at www.souperbowl.org. This program is
focuses on combating hunger in America and is youth led.

Holy Cross Faith Formation Children/Teen

The Holy Cross Faith Formation children/teens did an outstanding job collecting for the SouperBowl of Caring.

The proceeds went to the Holy Cross Sandwich Ministry and Christina's House.

#1st Annual Kevin Campbell Super Bowl Soup & Sandwich Lunch

The Youth Group of Trinity Baptist Church, Newton, NC sponsored the 1st Annual Souper Bowl Lunch benefiting the Backpack Program of Catawba County in memory of Kevin Campbell. Kevin was a deacon and leader in our church, but passed away in May 2015. Kevin passionately promoted The Backpack program at Trinity Baptist for many years. Kevin was an educator, teacher and principal in our local school system and saw first hand the need to eliminate hunger of young students. His wife, Kim Borton…

2019 Souper Bowl

We have not yet had an opportunity to sponser an event this year but are still trying. Robert Hudgins

Souper Bowl of Caring SouperB OWL Competition

We had a SouperB OWL friendly competition to collect items for our Souper Bowl of Caring. As the donations came in, each team's owl flew higher and higher. Our collection was a great success and we took 1100 items to the food pantry at the local Human Services. The Sunday School kids also held a "noisy offering" at the end of our Souper Bowl where people could put noisy coins (as well as silent dollar bills and checks) into soup pots. The money collected was also sent to the food pantry. …

Souper Bowl of Caring

Center for Achievement did an amazing job collecting can and dry goods for our Souper Bowl of Caring Event. Each grade was so excited to contribute to the cause. Our 4th grade team (students) led the event and got each classroom excited about helping our community. Can't wait until next year!!

Taking Care of Home

This year Centerville Chapel AME Church has been focusing more on community outreach at home. The YPD (Young People's Division) decided that their collection of canned foods and non-perishable items would be donated to a family in need at the church.


The previous Sunday before our collection we gave out Community Boxes as our Blitz project. The boxes included items such as toilet tissue, dish detergent, denture cleaner, and basic food products such as applesauce,…

Feeding Our Neighborhood

Gloria Dei has been rooted in South Bend's inner city for more than half of its 140-year history and works cooperatively with a mission church next door to support the homeless and needy in our community. This year, as they exited church on Souper Bowl Sunday, our members dropped $200 into the soup kettles held by our young servers and acolytes. That money was converted into supermarket scrip and donated to Broadway Christian Parish to help keep its food pantry shelves full.

Harvest Park Middle School's 10th Annual Souper Bowl of Caring Drive

Harvest Park Middle School, in Pleasanton, CA (San Francisco Bay Area), participated in the Souper Bowl of Caring during the month of January, leading up to the Super Bowl. Leadership students decorated football-themed collection containers for each classroom and the office. Each Friday on HPTV, our closed-circuit TV broadcast featured student-produced public service announcements to educate the students and staff about the impact of hunger in our community. Some teachers held classroom…

GNWI Souper Bowl Of Caring in Three Segments

The GNWI Chapter tackled the Souperbowl of Caring head on as we used a culmination of events to serve, honor, and support the community.

Annual Holiday Party
December 1, 2018

During the holiday party the chapter collaboratively collected monetary gifts to adopt two families who could use extra support, especially during the holiday season. These two families were selected through Catholic Charities. This organization provided GNWI Chapter a list of the needs and desires of the…

EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK

We had a great time volunteering at the East Texas Food Bank in Tyler, Texas. Grant Chapel-Palestine, Bethel-Montalba and Ebenezer-Tyler, just a few churches on the Tyler District were Blessed to be a blessing! We look forward to volunteering and donating again.

Our Giving

Our Confirmation students collected money after Mass to benefit the Feed My Starving children organization. We will be going to pack food in April and will present them with a check for $593.91

Children's message at FOV

We collected donations and food and hygiene items February 3 at both services for the Souper Bowl of Caring. Carrie Donovan and the youth hosted the coffee time with a tailgate theme. The items and donations were taken to Carol Hockin for the food pantry at ACTS.

Hampton Chapter continues tradition of service on MLK Day!

The Hampton Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated, believes in spending the day "on" for the MLK holiday. Because service is an integral value for JnJ, the chapter members have been collecting food for the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank for seven consecutive years. Each year, the children encourage local shoppers to consider adding to their grocery baskets for those in need, or making a cash donation. This year (2019), the children encouraged participation on behalf of those…

New Life in Christ Lutheran Church

We held a Souper Bowl of Caring Tailgate Pot-Luck that was a "super bowl" success. Our grill chefs cooked up some "super" delicious wings and our youth collected money and food items from our members. Since some of our members forgot to bring their items, we decided to continued to collect items on the following Sunday. This turned out to be a "super" success as we were able to collect more money and food than we had in past years by holding the event on two consecutive Sundays.

Super "Snack" Bowl of Caring

• Super Snack Bowl of Caring--Results--Thank you to all who supported, contributed and helped...make... sell...buy...the snacks (Texas Trash, Dill Pretzels, Chex Mix, Muddy Buddies, White Chocolate Puffs, Candy Chex Mix), dips (Buffalo Chicken, Queso, French Onion, Dill) and subs (Italian) for the Super Snack Bowl of Caring. These snack, dips an subs were sold between services on Super Bowl Sunday. We raised $577 to feed the poor. Great job and thank you to our 15 youth, 8 parent helpers and…

Schwarzwald Luther Church - 2019 Sunday School

Each year we collect money in soup pots after service on the day of the 'big game', as well as accepting designated plate offerings for a few weeks.
We also have a Sunday School competition to see which class group donates the most soup from early January thru the week after a certain football game. This year we extended it by one week, as one of our January Sunday's was snowed out.
This year the 1st thru 3rd grade group won with a 1014 cans/ packages of soup.
For their efforts, they…

So far...

So far our youth has collected over 300 canned goods!!! We will ended our collection on February 17th. We are almost close to our goal of 500 cans!! Let's keep going youth and tackle world hungry!!

Fairlawn United Methodist Church, Columbia, SC

Youth from the Fairlawn United Methodist Church of Columbia, South Carolina joined the thousands of young people from across the United States in support of the 2019 Souper Bowl of Caring offering.

They received a total of $655.00 which is being forwarded to the Harvest Hope Food Bank in Columbia. These funds will be used to provide food for those in need in and around Columbia.

Youth in the photo are: McKenzie Wooten, Bennett Luthren, Lily Calhoun and Alex Calhoun.