History
For more than thirty years, the Community Soup Bowl has benefited from the generosity of hundreds of individuals and groups form throughout the Tuscaloosa Community. People have stepped forward to cook, to serve meals, to wash dishes, to paint and clean the facility, to landscape, and cut grass, to donate food, and money…. to do whatever has been need to keep the Soup Bowl operating and fulfilling its mission.
In the beginning, soup was the usual fare of the day, made in a church kitchen and transported a few blocks to a rented house. On site meal preparation with an expanded menu became possible when a rental house with a kitchen became available. In 1998, the Lord blessed the Soup Bowl with a new building, the site still used today, where over 200 meals are served daily.
But the Lord was not finished.
Serving meals five days a week was not enough when people are hungry everyday. In 2005, the Soup Bowl’s ministry was expanded. Six Sunday school classes became the first weekend teams, taking responsibility for buying, preparing, and serving meals on Saturdays and Sundays. The weekend teams have grown in number and now include many churches, Sunday school classes, youth groups, college students, clubs, businesses, and organizations through the Tuscaloosa County.