Empty Bowls - A Fundraiser for the Hungry

Assumption Hosts Empty Bowls Event Benefiting Cass Community Social Services; Fighting Poverty, Creating Opportunity Sunday, October 14, Assumption Cultural Center

For the last 12 years, Assumption Church has hosted Empty Bowls, an event to raise awareness to fight hunger and care for those in need through Cass Community Social Services. Proceeds will go toward the food program...serving over 1 million meals per year! Additionally, money will be raised to purchase a commercial grade stove and thanksgiving meals for the less fortunate.

Meet dynamic and world renowned Reverend Faith Fowler, Executive Director of Cass Community Social Services, who will address those who attend. Cass is a Detroit-based non-profit agency dedicated to providing food, housing, health services and job programs in impoverished areas of the city. Rev. Fowler, who has been at Cass since 1994, also has served as Board Member for the Cass Corridor Neighborhood Development Corp., an advisory Board member of the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, and a Board Member and Trustee for the General Board of Church and Society. She currently Chairs the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Advisory Committee and has brought Tiny Houses to her Campus in Detroit to provide housing for the homeless! Most recent, Rev Fowler has created a solar panel program employing the homeless to fabricate hundreds of solar panels to aid those still without power in Puerto Rico!

Join us at Assumption Cultural Center on Sunday, October 14, 4-6:00 p.m.

Soups and breads are offered from many Detroit area businesses. A donation of $15 per person or $25 for two and can be made in advance or at the door, and proceeds benefit Cass Community Social Services. Celebrity servers will be on hand to serve. Entertainment will be provided by The Ambassadors, a group of previously homeless men who sing all over the country, will sing gospel and Motown music to inspire and entertain!

Assumption Center, 21800 Marter Rd., is located in the communities of St Clair Shores and Grosse Pointe Woods. Beautiful hand painted bowls will be provided for each guest.

Last year's Empty Bowls community event raised over $5,000 to assist the Cass programs. This is hardly enough to cover any single program and food for the homeless. The committee is expanding to include all area churches and organizations to make a difference in the lives of many people. Contact Bonnie Mellos at (313) 410-7177 if you are interested in sponsorship or for additional information on how to join this effort to help the hungry and those in need. Visit casscommunity.org and Www.emptybowlsdetroit.com. For tickets go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/empty-bowls-detroit-assumption-cultural-center-tickets-41230192616. See attached flyer for details.

Join us for the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser at Assumption Cultural Center in St. Clair Shores 21800 Marter Rd. on Sunday, March 15 from 4-6 pm.

www.emptybowlsdetroit.com

Soups and breads donated by local restaurants. Minimum donation $10 per person. Entertainment by the Ambassadors, an all-men’s inspirational choir from 4-5 p.m.