Hub City Empty Bowls
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RJ Rockers 226 W Main St., Spartanburg, South Carolina 29306
Hub City Empty Bowls is pleased to announce that their annual Soup Day will return on Saturday, Nov. 5 at RJ Rockers from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For $20, you will get a bowl, plentiful soup prepared by local restaurants, bread, tea and fellowship. A silent auction will be held from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
“After waiting two years, we’re so glad this event is finally happening. We’ve been anxiously awaiting its return and we know the community has as well. We can’t wait to bring it back and see the crowd it brings in,” says Bruce Bowyer, campaign chairman. “We can’t thank RJ Rockers enough for being so accommodating and working with us the past three years to make this event happen.
Hub City Empty Bowls beneficiary, TOTAL Ministries, is also excited about Soup Day’s return.
“Soup Day and our collaboration with Hub City Empty Bowls is our biggest fundraiser for food of the year. We’re extremely excited for this event to come back and I know the less fortunate population of Spartanburg will be grateful for the outcome,” says Traci Kennedy, TOTAL Ministries’ Executive Director
Hub City Empty Bowls is one of Spartanburg County’s most respected and successful grassroots fundraisers organized by Carolina Clay Artists. Its purpose is to use the making of pottery bowls by the public and professional potters as a means to raise money that will help feed local citizens who don’t have enough to eat. Each year, Hub City Empty Bowls raises thousands of dollars that are given to a local charity that is aligned with this purpose.
TOTAL Ministries got its start in 1982 as Project Eat. The founder of Project Eat, Dannie Horne, saw an unemployment rate of 9.7% and saw that many people in Spartanburg County were hungry. During the first 17 months of Project Eat’s existence, $190,000 of groceries were distributed in an effort to alleviate that problem. In 1983, TOTAL Ministries of Spartanburg County, Inc. was incorporated by 12 Spartanburg churches to carry on the work of Project Eat. Since then, additional emergency services have been added to the TOTAL mission in an effort to help those in need.