{"id":5791,"date":"2015-04-07T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:58:27","slug":"mike-matson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/07\/mike-matson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Matson &#8217;06 launches community meal initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Five days a week, Minneapolis community members convene at Bethany Lutheran Church to dine on gourmet fare\u00a0prepared as part of the Soup for You Cafe &#8212; a program recognized by the Star Tribune\u00a0for its ability to &#8220;redefine the soup kitchen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Augsburg College alumnus, Chaplain to Student Athletes, and linebacker coach <strong>Rev.\u00a0Mike Matson &#8217;06\u00a0<\/strong>is the pastor at Bethany Lutheran and the driver behind this community meal. Supported by volunteers and one talented chef, Soup for You is a chance for people of varying backgrounds to come together in an environment that focuses on dignity. In the article &#8220;Church program offers hot soup, warm welcome,&#8221; Matson underscored that the program focuses on bringing people together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur model is mutuality, and what better way is there to show mutuality than to gather at the same table together?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five days a week, Minneapolis community members convene at Bethany Lutheran Church to dine on gourmet fare\u00a0prepared as part of the Soup for You Cafe &#8212; a program recognized by the Star Tribune\u00a0for its ability to &#8220;redefine the soup kitchen.&#8221; Augsburg College alumnus, Chaplain to Student Athletes, and linebacker coach Rev.\u00a0Mike Matson &#8217;06\u00a0is the pastor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6,7],"tags":[128,271,3619,495,3617,3618,2692],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-articles","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-alumni-2","tag-augsburg-athletics","tag-bethany-lutheran-church","tag-campus-ministry","tag-mike-matson","tag-soup-for-you","tag-star-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11778,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions\/11778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}