Grace Church decided a few weeks ago that we would try to feed the hungry in our neighborhood. We prayed and pooled our resources, and found that we could afford two turkeys and the fixings to go with them. Not being a cook, I did my research and found we should be able to feed about 40 people with the two turkeys.
Then God began to move. Two women from His church, but not Grace Church found out what we were doing, and they both cooked a turkey for us to serve. Another woman cooked up two big pans of stuffing. Being the math wizard that I am, I deduced we could now feed 80 people.
We had 100 Styrofoam containers, so we decided to think big. Let's try to feed 100 people. God moved some more. And before the turkey was gone, we had fed around 140 people.
The next day, God showed us that he thinks bigger. We were given 32 frozen turkeys, each with a laundry basket filled with canned food, boxed food, and baked food to give out to our neighbors. So before we were done, we had been able to feed about 400 people.
Only about twenty people make up Grace Church, and ten of them are under the age of twelve. There is no way we could feed 400 people. But God did.
We thought He was finished, but Sunday, we were in the building were we hold service, and someone opened the freezer. Tucked inside was one more frozen turkey. We KNOW it wasn't there before.
As we stood around scratching our heads, I think Jesus and a great cloud of witnesses were up in heaven just giggling. I'm still blown away that God let me join him in this adventure. All praise to the God of miraculous math!
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