After last year's Souper Bowl, Leah Freeman of Amsterdam, N.Y., wrote a letter to project organizers, saying she liked helping the less fortunate. I'm so glad I could contribute to this recipe of kindness. The concept makes sense to Dan Ott, on the staff of the Souper Bowl, based at Spring Valley Presbyterian. It's just young people standing outside worship centers, collecting money for their own communities. The other thing is the grass-roots aspect.
People give money and then see it at work.
Too often, Ott said, today's generation of young people is wrongly portrayed as apathetic and self-centered.