Healthy Bread

Okay, so there are a few stories between the gift card adn the bread, including getting a great deal on our car, and suriving the first few months (truly a God thing). But I decided to do thsi one next as there is so much to write I am nto sure what people are really interested in.
So this was written in April last year and I decided to not edit it just leave it as it was written as then it really captures the feelings at the time:
A few weeks ago while I was making lunch, my husband was studying the bread packet nutritional information and moaning about the poor fiber levels and general healthiness of the bread. Recently having moved to the US from South Africa, we are on a limited budget and have to settle for buying the cheapest brown/whole wheat bread we can get. We discussed how there is too much of a price difference to get better bread and had to put the issue to rest.

About 4 days later at our Trinity International wives meeting, Jodie (a friend of the ISHA director who rund Faith Acres a food pantry outreach o needy families) arrived with food for us all and shared how they at Faith Acres (FAF) prayed for a double portion of healthy food to feed the international families and asked God for organic/seed bread and how he had provided it, and had lots of loaves outside in her car for us. I was just blown away by Gods provision. He knew what we wanted, even though it was not a absolute need (could survive on "normal" bread) he not only provided our needs, but also the desires of your hearts (the ability to eat good healthy food).

Since we have been in America we have been given a whole new meaning to the prayer...Give us today our daily bread, as God has done just that!! Praise the Lord!!!!!!!!!!!"God's goodness overwhelms me to tears (if that is possible :-)) - even the silliest things, such as organic food, which I have always had a preference for, he constantly provides." Keep wellGod bless

When I was looking for my copy of this, I came across the Story of the day they brought the food that Jodie had sent out to the FAF family:
Two months back we prayed and asked God for extra food to come into "Food Source" so that we could share it with the International families that are going to school here at the Christian College. We had found out that many of these families are struggling just to buy food, because only the person enrolled in the college can work and have a job while in the states. Two different mothers told us that their children asking them, "Why the Church in America doesn't care about them and can they go back home to their own countries?" It broke our hearts; we had to do something, to help these families. God was faithful and provided twice the amount of food in (all of it free from different stores), we were all so excited! We had no idea how we were going to distribute the food, do we take it in put it on tables, do we make up boxes, what do we do? On Friday the day before we needed to deliver it, we had Moody radio on in the kitchen. Now this was crazy because Fridays at Faith Acres is busy, people in and out, not much time to be listening to the radio. Yet there was a quiet moment and this woman on the radio spoke of how in the early days of their ministry she delivered things in her van. She would just park on a side street, open the doors and people took as they needed it right out of her van. That was it; God was so faithful to show us how to do it, right out of the van. I had been invited to enjoy some fellowship with the international woman and then told them we had a van full of food and goodies. I had told them how we prayed at Faith Acres and asked God for a double delivery so we could cover the families who come to Faith Acres as well as each of their families. “Someone must be praying for "Organic Wheat Bread" because we have a few boxes of it in the van. Also there must be some little girls who want "Princess Parties" because we have everything you need for birthday parties and lots more stuff from donations that came to Faith Acres from the Hallmark store.” A South African woman raised her hand and said, “Could I tell you something?” She told all the ladies that she and her husband had been discussing the lack of nutrition in the bread and wanted to buy better wheat bread just 4 days before, but because of the currency exchange, they just can't afford the better wheat bread. Then a Chinese woman pulled me a side and said, "Two days back I asked my daughter what kind of birthday cake she wanted, sure enough a Princess cake, but never could we afford decorations." We had fruit, veggies and lot's more goodies to share in the van. It was beautiful, God had sent his Angels to do some grocery shopping and it was just what each needed and even desired. Everyone took what they needed and we still had left overs. Everything has to go, is there another family we can give the rest to? Annie who works with the international families said, "Yes, one family by my house with older children we can take it to them." The next day at church Annie came up to me and said “That last, that last box we packed for the family with the older children. The woman opened the door and told me they had no food, she told her children she wouldn’t cook today because they had no food." We stood there in awe, what a sobering moment, no food! The story on the radio telling us how to deliver the food, the wheat bread for the South African family, the princess party decorations for the little girl and now a family getting the last box had no food. How can anyone deny that this was anything less then a GOD THING? This not show us what a GREAT God we have! The God who created the heavens & the earth cares about YOU!!!!