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- Children from Luther Memorial Church, Syracuse, N.Y., amassed a tower of soup to feed the hungry in their community.
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- Members of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Bozeman, Mont., collect cans of soup and other non-perishable food.
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- Youth from Christ Lutheran Church, DeForest, Wis., collect cans of soup for the local food pantry. They also accept cash donations, which are given to the DeForest Area Needs Network.
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- Young people at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Thousand Oaks, Calif., collected $536 and 50 food items for ELCA World Hunger.
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- The Souper Bowl of Caring is a huge event at Lutheran Church of Hope, West Des Moines, Iowa. The dream of this congregation is to restock the shelves of every food bank in central Iowa. Last year the members collected more than 150,000 pounds of food.
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- Teens of the Spirit Together at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, Lincolnshire, Ill., collected $1,226 for PADS.
On Super Bowl Sunday – Feb. 2 – ELCA congregations participated in the Souper Bowl of Caring. The Souper Bowl of Caring is a national movement of young people working to fight hunger and poverty in their communities. Of the 3,921 groups participating this year, churches make up more than 77 percent.
