The Soup Kitchen That Wouldn't Run Out
In 2012, a church in Moore, Oklahoma — a small congregation of maybe forty people — opened its doors the morning after an EF5 tornado...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 9:11b-17.
In 2012, a church in Moore, Oklahoma — a small congregation of maybe forty people — opened its doors the morning after an EF5 tornado leveled entire neighborhoods. They had almost nothing to offer. Pastor Linda Bridges counted what was in the church kitchen: three cases of bottled water, two bags of rice, and a handful of canned vegetables. She looked at the line forming outside and felt her stomach drop.…
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