Manna! Outreach Project Begins.

Our first outreach project for the 2010 year (at our church) started on Friday, March 26th when I walked into the local grocery store (Super One) to get some frozen bread dough, butter and non-stick cooking spray. After explaining to the front desk why I was there and some confusion in back freezer area as to where the 100 loaves of bread were, in about 30 minutes I was walking out the door with the right number of frozen bread loaves and ready to get the project underway.

I would like to stop here for a moment and share something amazing God did while working with the local grocery store (Super One). Now, last year when we did this same project we paid ~$0.95 per loaf and we had to pick up the frozen bread at many different Super One locations around town. This year, in order to help save freezer space, I contacted the main Super One in town and made arrangements with the Store Manager to pick up 100 loaves on Friday evening. When I put the order in the Store Manager asked if he could connect with me later and let me know the price. I stated that would be no problem and tried to patiently wait for his phone call. It never came, but I didn't think it was too big of a deal for I was figuring and planning to pay around $100.00 for the 100 loaves. However, when I checked out God did His amazing work and blew me away when I was told that they were only going to charge us $40.00 for 100 loaves of bread. I humbly stated $40.00 that is good deal and thank you.

Now, there is no doubt in my mind that God was at work overseeing and blessing this outreach project. Ohhhh! May He get the glory!

By the way, the bread was set out by three people at the church from 11:00 pm to 12:10 am in order for it to raise and ready to bake at 8:00 am on Saturday. Whew...late night and early morning, but we'll just run on excitement.