COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nearly 10,000 organizations, including 607 Baptist churches, have reported raising more than $4.1 million this year for charity through a project called the Souper Bowl of Caring, which coincided with February’s Super Bowl.
The Souper Bowl of Caring is a faith-based crusade against hunger led by young people who collect donations in soup pots as churchgoers leave services on the Sunday of the Super Bowl, according to Danielle Haugh, public relations coordinator for the project.
Each group of youth sent the donated money directly to the charity of their choice and simply were asked to report the total sum to the Souper Bowl of Caring officials. Baptist youth, which are not limited to Southern Baptists, collected a reported $230,098. Since the program began in a South Carolina church in 1990 and then spread nationwide, youth have raised a total of at least $32 million.
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