Souper Bowl of Caring

 

Super Bowl Sunday has become a day of festivities and parties, and delicious food and drink  is as important to football fans as their big screen televisions and team jerseys.  As homes across the country prepared for Super Bowl parties and celebrations on February 7th, 2010, the youth of St. Johns Lutheran Church in Summit, NJ, took a different approach to gathering food for “Game Day” by participating in the “Souper Bowl for Caring.”  Armed with large soup pots, the youth gathered after both Sunday services to collect donations.  The $306 collected will be donated to Loaves and Fishes, Summit’s community food bank.

The event, sponsored nationally by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), uses Super Bowl weekend as a time to mobilize youth to fight hunger and poverty in their communities.  This year, 8,406 groups (a total of 194,222 young men and women) participated and raised more than $7.5 million.  Participants collect both monetary donations and donations of food—which they count as $1 for every pound of food collected.

(Pictured are St. Johns Youth Max Braden and Zach Bowman, with Rev. Dr. Andrea Walker and Vicar Fred Becker)

Tags: Loaves and Fishes Food Bank, Souper Bowl, St Johns Lutheran, Summit Youth, Super Bowl