FCSLA In the Community:
Matching Funds Program

Souper Bowl of Caring

The FCSLA is proud to announce our first Matching Funds Activity has been submitted and approved for payment. Branch 53 in Channahon, IL, worked with the St. Ann Youth Group, G.L.U.E. (God's Love Unites Everyone) sponsoring a "Souper Bowl of Caring."

This is a nationwide, youth-led effort. The teens hold soup pots and man the exits of the church after all the masses on Super Bowl weekend. They encourage parishioners to give monetary donations to fill their soup pots as they leave church. The branch members and teens raised $673.90, in their soup kettles. The money raised was presented a week later, on February 8, 2009, to the Catholic Charities Daybreak Shelter. The teens and branch members volunteered their time on this date, preparing and serving lunch to the community's needy at Shepherd's Table.

Members of St. Ann youth Group (G.L.U.E), along with FCSLA Senior Branch 53 Officers,
Rosemarie Hamerla, Karen Wojnarowski and member Michael Wojnarowski

Katie Kaminskas (G.L.U.E Member), Ben Dry (G.L.U.E Member) and Mike Wojnarowski
(Sr. Branch 53 member) collect money after mass at St. Ann Church in Channahon.

We thank FCSLA Branch 53 and the teens of St. Ann's Church for their volunteer efforts and accomplishing this first of many Matching Funds Activities.

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