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The week before Super Bowl Sunday, a drama can be presented, highlighting a special offering that will take place the following week for a local food pantry.
This is the way the drama went in the church that submitted this idea. It and can be altered to best fit your church.
Some middle-school boys barged into the service at the designated time (during announcements before the offering). They were dressed in white plastic aprons, chefs' hats, and carrying soup pots and spoons with a can or two of soup in the pots. Banging the spoons and making as much racket as they could, they made an announcement to the people. The pastor (in on the drama) acted angry and said to them "You can't do this. We're having a worship service here..." One of the "chefs" pleaded and said something about it being an offering, and that the deacons knew all about it. Other bits of humor were thrown into the drama. At the end, one of the key parts was a synchronized raising of the soup cans while saying: "Remember to bring your soup and cash for SOUP---er Bowl Sunday next Sunday morning."
The next week, the middle-school kids dressed in the aprons and hats with their soup pots, collecting the cans of soup and money from the congregation. In this church, over 500 cans of soup and about $1000 was raised for their local food pantry, which was overwhelmed by the magnitude of the offering when the youth director, along with the young people, brought the soup and money to the shelter.
Not only does this get the young people in the church involved, it also helps a great cause!
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