We had our annual chili cook-off with 7 types of chili submitted for judging and everyone to enjoy. It was a lot of fun and we raised money for ELCA World Hunger, and collected canned food items for the Grand Forks food bank. Thank you to all who participated!

Our congregation really enjoyed the skits provided by Souper Bowl of Caring. Our youth did such a good job with all the skits we did during our children's sermon time.

The youth group of Luther Memorial Lutheran Church led the canned food collection by sponsoring two drives at the local grocery stores in Blacksburg. The congregation pitched in by giving generously to the cause. The younger children of the congregation and their families did the final tally of items and delivered the goods to the Blacksburg Interfaith Food Pantry on a snowy Sunday. All in all 1300 items were donated. It took the hands and hearts of all to make our Souper Bowl Sunday a success.... More

Hope Hall received 16 bags of food and a contribution of $360.81 in celebration of the 2012 Souper Bowl of Caring. We are grateful to Youth Minister Sue Condolucci, the youth and the congregation at St. Mark's! Your compassion will allow Linda's Cupboard to be provide non-perishable food and personal items for Hope Hall families.

Our Outreach Coordinator had challenged us to reach 500, and we thought that we had surpassed that goal by 51 food items. But, SURPRISE!, when we counted everything that people had brought we had received 726 food items to distribute to local food pantries. And that still doesn't include the 15 other bags of groceries that people brought that were not soup-related! WOW!

The youth of our little church have participated in Souper Bowl for the last few years - collecting food and money for local food pantries. This is the 1st year we participated in the service blitz though. The kids and adult chaperones were so impressed by the need for help we decided to make our service blitz project a regular service project for our youth group.

We may be a little church, but we have a lot of desire to reach out into the community in both service and ministr... More

On Super Bowl Sunday (Feb 5th), some of our church youth group got together and held a soup luncheon where they served the adults. They did everything but the cooking! It was an amazing event. The youth were thrilled to be serving others, all the while raising money for Cornerstone Ministries. The youth raised $326, and brought in 244 pounds of canned goods.

Collections at Mass on February 4th and 5th $394.22.

K $7.70

1-A $17.61***Winner of Popcorn Party

1-B $6.87

2-A $5.48

2-B $1.43

3-A $6.59

3-B $5.09

4TH $4.50

5TH $9.59

6TH $1.89

7TH $8.32

8TH $3.00

9th-12TH $3.05

TOTAL $81.12

Pickle/Popcorn Money from yesterday also donated to Souper Bowl was $77.00

TOTAL Classes + Fundraise... More

Our Youth Ministry set up a display for "The Souper Bowl". If you were an AFC fan rooting for the Patriots you were to donate a can of Chicken Noodle Soup. If you were an NFC fan rooting for the Giants you were to donate a can of Tomato Soup. Chicken Noodle Soup WINS 35 -31. The can soup was donated to St. Marks' Food Bank!