Sacking Hunger 2
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Great Plains Conference Communications
The Kansas City Chiefs are playing in their second-consecutive Super Bowl and their fourth in the past five years. While we love seeing the Lombardi trophy raised by players wearing red, white and gold, we love even more when we can serve Christ by feeding the hungry.
So the Great Plains Conference and sister annual conferences in the United States have an opportunity once again score a victory against hunger.
Bishop David Wilson of the Great Plains Conference and Bishop Bob Farr of the Missouri Conference have teamed up to invite colleagues in the California-Nevada, California-Pacific and Oregon-Idaho conferences to a friendly competition to see which team's fans can collect the most food for food pantries in their mission fields.
During the time of last year's Super Bowl, the Great Plains and Missouri combined to collect 105,367 pounds of food. Our friends in the Greater New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania conferences overcame the loss by their beloved Eagles to gather 74,560 pounds of food.
The goal for Kansas City fans is to collect even more than last year's amount!
So let's get the word out to our congregations to bring nonperishable food items with them to church or another designated drop-off point through Thursday, Feb. 15, the week after the Super Bowl. Churches can decide for themselves to which food pantry they want to donate the food. It could be their own food pantry or another that operates within their communities.
But before you drop off the food, make sure you weigh it! And by the end of the day Thursday, Feb. 15, please have someone from your church fill in this simple form: https://gp-reg.brtapp.com/SuperBowlSackingHungerChallenge.
Churches with multiple locations can choose either to submit on a single form by adding the weight together or can submit individually. We just ask that you take steps to ensure you aren't double-counted in the total. The bishops are pondering a friendly wager. Last year, our Great Plains and Missouri bishops won Philly cheesesteaks and TastyCakes, but we went ahead and sent along some Kansas City barbecue to our friends in the Philadelphia area.
Either Kansas City or San Francisco will win the Super Bowl, but together we can score at least one victory against hunger in the communities we serve.
Good luck!