Feeding the 5,000 – well, maybe the 25!

Last Saturday seemed to be a homework marathon.  We had so many high school students here doing their projects and math homework. On one veranda, the girls were working on the water cycle.  They even learned Ms. Heather’s song from the Infant School to teach to their class.  On the next veranda, someone was working on a barometer or something while the others were wading through pages of math.  Well, in the middle of all of this, twelve o’clock arrives and we start to put out a lunch.  Heather and I just kept pulling out whatever we could find.  Hot dogs, cheese, some left over macaroni, fried eggs and fried spam and then lots of bread.  When the lunch bell rang we seemed to have a flood into the dining room.  Girls, boys, children and the Oasis staff.  We all seated ourselves.  I looked around the table and felt how blessed we were.  Some of the kids I had just met, most of them I have known for a long time.  It was especially wonderful to see the kids I have known and had to the house many times welcoming and sharing with the other kids.  Kindness is contagious.  We all bowed to pray for our food, I especially prayed that the Lord would multiply what we had set out!  As we began to eat I was blessed to hear the conversation around the table.  All good, kind words and lots of fun. Our mission in Belize is to care, connect and cultivate.  It was so encouraging to sit around the table and see that our mission was being accomplished and it is also being carried on by the kids that we have been ministering to. Water may travel in a cycle, but I think that kindness does as well!

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