Five Loaves in a Church Kitchen

In 2019, Maria Hernandez stood in the kitchen of Grace Community Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, staring at two casserole dishes and a slow cooker of soup. The church had announced a community meal for families displaced by recent flooding, and she had expected maybe thirty people. By six o'clock, over two hundred lined the sidewalk outside. "We don't have enough," she told Pastor David, her voice tight with panic.…