Rainy Empty Bowls drive-through raises nearly $8K for hunger
Brownwood Bulletin
Community members responded on a rainy Thursday to Good Samaritan Ministries’ Empty Bowl Project, generating nearly $8,000 in the drive-through event for the organization’s seven hunger ministries.
That amount did not include the additional funds that would be raised at Saturday’s special sale at the Good Samaritan Ministries (GSM) Resale Store.
For $10 donations, participants in Thursday’s event received a ceramic campfire bowl and chose coupons from one of 14 area restaurants.
GSM Executive Director Leesa Stephens said the amount raised Thursday is close to the funds raised in previous years when the event was held at the Brownwood Coliseum. This year and in 2020, Empty Bowls was changed to a drive-through event because of COVID.