We all can recount the story of Jesus Christ feeding the crowd of 5000 men with just five loaves of bread and two fish. We read the conclusion of the story in Matthew 14:19-22 (NKJV):
Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
You may be wondering why I am wearing this apron, aren’t you? Last Monday evening, several of us journeyed to the heart of the needy section of Philadelphia to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless and hungry. Thanks to the generous outpouring of our congregation, we were able to serve dinners Monday evening, have enough to feed the children in the school the next day, have the food multiplied to be handed out to community on platters Tuesday evening and feed the school children again on Wednesday. The number of meals served from the food provided by you was 682 meals.
The cars that traveled to Philadelphia were packed with enough to serve the dinners for just Monday night. God supplied a miracle and multiplied that food to fill 682 stomachs. The evening started with a service where the school children sang songs followed by a short message by the pastor. After the service, those who attended lined up for the food.
In my book, “Feeding the Five Thousand”, I started with a mock news article where several eyewitnesses of the day were interviewed. This is what I penned for the disciple John:
John, another disciple of the teacher, commented, “People need additional food after a period of time. Likewise, people need more of God’s Word lest they faint from spiritual hunger and perish. Today, these people have been fed spiritually and physically.”
We were able to spread the Gospel and feed the physical need that night. God, 
through His Son, multiplied the food to continue feeding multitudes the following days, just as He had done 2000 years ago. Glory to His Name. Thank you for Your Love, Father.
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