We set up for the monthly homeless meal last Sunday; and we were doing well...we fed 105 people!
The weather was brutal with 27 °F temperatures, ice and wind.
We fed spaghetti, chili, macaroni and cheese, green beans casserole, sandwiches with Panera bread, and pizza. We loaded them up because it was Cold!
When we were shutting down, and a bunch of volunteers had already left; when we got 'the call'! The Tulsa Day Care Center for the Homeless was in trouble. Due to the extreme temperatures, they let everyone come in. Then they realized they were out of food! We fed 24 at the Denver House, who got the call from the Day Care Center; asking for help.
They gave them our numbers, and they were in a panic. We always make extra food, so we started making more foam plates.
We also began making more emergency food , using what we carry canned in our trailer. Adding chili beans to our chili almost doubled our available chili, doctored with some spice; leaving a respectable chili roaster load!
Two volunteers go for all the chips they can, and I start several gallons of cheese:
Here I've stripped an empty roaster, to begin making queso. We scrounged a quart of milk to thin the cheese where we can heat it properly. They came back with a dozen big bags of chips, and 3 cans of Rotel for heat!
The foam plates started filling:
We put chips in the large pocket, and covered one side with queso, and the other side was covered with chili. We added green beans casserole, and the remaining macaroni and cheese.
Using what we could make on the fly, along with the leftovers we stacked up about twice what I thought we could make:
With only half of our volunteers still available, we went for it.
We had made multiple sandwiches from Panera bread:
These helped fill a lot more meals. This guy and myself started this feed 10 years ago.
This was the craziest homeless feed ever, and we made at least 60 more meals. We took everything we could box up, and it was just enough. GOD plans much better than we do!
At the end of the day, everyone was warm and fed! It was a good day feeding the homeless.
Wonderful work! Thank you
They are good people in a bad spot. It's a blessing to feed them!
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Feeding the multitude just like in the Bible. A testament to His love and compassion. This is what is meant by doing things in His Name.
Before the Mayor began attacking the homeless, we used to feed close to 300. We usually set up with 13 to 15 roasters of food, but we had emergencies etc.; And the required food was not there! We actually had 8 roasters....
We set up, and prayed loaves and fishes over the food; and started serving like normal! As a backup, I sent my brother, with all the cash we could find to a local pizza shop. He ordered 15 pizzas, and waited. Since we had hot pizza coming, we served normal (heavy) servings. My home made beef stew seldom lasts for the feed, and we had 265 homeless; but when we were done, there was enough left for all the volunteers to have a bowl!
Now for the fun part...when we were almost done, my brother called me and told me they had lost our order! He was getting ready to reorder, and I looked up and down the line; without a Single empty roaster....
I told him to walk out and forget it, that GOD had this feed! Just telling you about it raises the hair on the back of my arms...my good and faithful servant came to mind. One of the clearest times where GOD himself showed us that he liked what were are doing. That was a real high point!
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Awesome work by everyone 👍
We were hanging on by the skin of our teeth for sure! But everyone was fed....
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