Rob Shepherd lately hosted a vacation potluck however with a brand new spin: soup.
The Virginia pastor even created a festive title for his occasion.
“Soup-mas was a enjoyable get-together with our small group from church,” Shepherd instructed Fox Information Digital in an interview. “We meet weekly for a Bible examine, and this was our Christmas occasion as a gaggle.”
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Sometimes, he mentioned, the group does a potluck, however this 12 months they have been open to revolutionary concepts.
“My spouse, who’s an educator, threw out the thought of everybody bringing a soup to share,” recalled Shepherd, who’s lead pastor at Subsequent Degree Church in Yorktown, Virginia.
Virginia pastor Rob Shepherd mentioned his spouse, Monica, at left, got here up with the thought of a soup potluck for his or her annual church group vacation occasion. (Rob Shepherd)
The concept was a winner. However the subsequent challenge was how company have been going to benefit from the soups on the potluck occasion.
That led to a different nice concept to be cooked up.
“My spouse shared the thought of additionally bringing muffin tins to put cups of soup in in order that it will be simple to pattern the assorted soups,” Shepherd mentioned. “There are six {couples} in our group — so we had 5 totally different soups, and one couple introduced dessert.”
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The muffin tins proved a intelligent serving concept for the soup picks: tomato, vegetable, broccoli cheese, sausage tortellini and hen tortilla.
“All of them have been scrumptious, however my favourite was the broccoli cheese soup,” Shepherd mentioned.
Shepherd was so happy with the potluck that he determined to share the thought on social media.
Muffin tins have been used to carry the soup cups throughout the vacation potluck. (Rob Shepherd)
“There might be plenty of negativity on-line and one in every of my targets is to supply optimistic content material,” he mentioned.
Shepherd mentioned he went on TikTok in 2020 “just because I had extra time on my palms.”
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“I submit video games, recipes and household enjoyable,” Shepherd mentioned.
And his soup submit was sizzling.
“I didn’t anticipate it to go as viral because it has. There are 3 million views on TikTok and three.9 million on Instagram,” Shepherd instructed Fox Information Digital final week.
Earlier than posting the video on Instagram, he had 1,500 followers. After the video, it jumped to fifteen,000 followers.
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“I am blown away by the response,” he mentioned.
Rob Shepherd’s vacation soup potluck occasion along with his church group featured 5 picks – tomato, vegetable, broccoli cheese, sausage tortellini and hen tortilla. (Rob Shepherd)
There have been 1000’s of feedback on the submit, however Shepherd cited two of his favorites.
“Low cost, simple and a enjoyable approach to get the fam collectively, I am so down,” wrote @kodarodriguez97.
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“That is my dream. Soup is my fave meals. I want new mates,” wrote @BRXJ.
Not solely is Shepherd thrilled that his soup potluck theme has been so well-received, he is additionally stunned by the attain of his submit.
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“I’m regularly despatched messages from mates who’ve been despatched the soup video by their mates, and they’re very excited to let their mates know that they know me in actual life,” Shepherd mentioned.
“The entire thing has been enjoyable.”
