Soup from secret recipe raises thousands to aid indigents

From South Carolina-

Every chair in the fellowship hall of Grace Episcopal Church was full Thursday as the congregation hosted its 41st soup luncheon, which this year will help fund medical care for some of Anderson’s poorest families.

Dena Cullen, who took over planning for the luncheon two years ago, walked — and sometimes ran — from the kitchen to the backup dining room in the church’s parlor and down the hall to a classroom where volunteers packaged soup lunches to go.

Cullen said about 400 tickets for the $7 meals sold in advance and dozens more were selling at the door as the church opened its doors at 11:30 a.m. About 100 gallons of soup for the lunch was donated by individual church members who made a batch (or three) at home and brought it in to be mixed together for the fundraiser.

Grace Episcopal has about 300 members total.

“It is all hands on deck for this fundraiser,” Cullen said.

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