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Last Tuesday was our Christmas celebration at Food for Life. Of course, celebrating Christ's birth was the primary focus of the teaching time and singing. Angie Gould sang "Emmanuel, God With Us." It was a beautiful song talking about the call upon Christians to live out the love of God to a hurting world at Christmas time. Then Paul read the passage from Luke about Christ's birth.
The gospel message was clearly presented, and a young lady named Wynn prayed a prayer of salvation. She is on the street and is a drug addict. She started talking to Angie after the teaching time about her struggles, and when asked if she would like to call out to God for salvation, she responded positively and prayed. Our hope is that her conversion was genuine and that God will deliver her from her addiction and provide her with a home.
After dinner, many Christmas presents and raffle prizes were given out. A couple of local, Christian businessman as well as FFL provided funds to pay for three homeless people to be able to stay in hotel rooms for one week. What a Christmas blessing for those people! Rico actually won a hotel room, but since he is not homeless he generously gave the room to another man living on the streets. Rico's face beamed with delight at the opportunity to be a blessing to another person. He personally thanked us for giving him the opportunity to give his raffle prize away. FFL was also able to give $10 gift cards to Bi-Lo, McDonalds, and Arby's as raffle prizes, and a couple of kind ladies prepared gift bags for everyone.
Precious children and their mother were also with us for the yummy, Christmas dinner, and we were able to give them Christmas gifts since their mother shared that the family was struggling to provide gifts for the children this year. Apparently her husband is on disability, and she stays home with her three children, so money is extremely scarce.
It was a wonderful Christmas celebration. We had lots of new volunteers from a local church, over 30 volunteers in all. We were also able to give out 130 plates full of ham, potatoes, green beans, and more.
Because of Christmas and New Years Day being on Tuesdays, we will not be meeting for Food for Life again until January 8.
~Charity
