American Missionary Fellowship

We had something very interesting happen in December. Most years, one of our supporting churches (Ten Mile Community Church) gives us a little cash bonus for Christmas. This year they did not. Instead, I got a call out of the blue one day from a lady in the church, explaining that they had taken a food donation for us this year.

After some coordinating and discussing the best way to handle things, I ended up making the 200-mile round trip down there to pick up the food. I came down on a Sunday and was able to share in the service how thankful we were for this blessing. When I got there, I was taken aback by the large amount of food. I had been told it was a lot, but I had no idea it was this much! I had brought down four large storage trunks to put loose items in and was driving my pickup with an eight-foot bed. Well, we filled every trunk as tight as we could and filled the back of my pickup, and the back seat and floor of my extended cab, and the floor of the passenger seat!

We had much more food than we needed, so the church suggested we share it with some of the people in need around where we lived. So far, we have given large amounts of food to four families and still have a large amount left we are hoping to give to a fifth family. Even so, we were able to make use of a lot of food for ourselves as well. What a fun time it has been giving out the food to people! God has blessed us with smiles and eyes that look upon us in a way that speaks much louder than words. What a blessing it has turned out to be not to get our Christmas cash gift this year!