Forward Edge- The Lords Kitchen - May 25

Forward Edge- The Lords Kitchen - May 25

Today I took a break from building houses and worked in thhe Lords Kitchen instead. It is a program that is run by Grace International, and it feeds the school children and children in the camp. They take turns feeding the kids from school and the camp kids day to day so everyone can have a chance to get food. 

We spent the first part of the morning helping prepare the food. We went through bags of rice- not the little bags that we get- each bag was 50 pounds. We took metal bowls and shook the rice, separating the good from the bad. We also sorted through beans picking out the bad ones. I think we went through around 4+ bags of rice. Then the ladies in the kitchen cooked it all and prepared it. The ladies that work in that kitchen are amazing. It is not a kitchen like ours in any sense. Everything  is done by hand and done well. I think the food tastes so much better because of it. It was very hot and kind of dim and a big experience. We got to help cook and feed 600 kids for one day. That is the reality of those ladies lives everyday. 

We fed the younger school kids first today, then we set up to fed the children and the older students. Smallest to biggest. In total we fed 618 children! So exciting! The kids all brought their buckets or bowls or jugs-whatever they had to carry their food in. Sometimes even a toddler or baby as young as 2 came walking through to get his or her little bucket filled. My job was to help Alix mark the  kids as they came through the gate gate with a sharpie. If they had a black line on their fingernail they had already got food. Each kid was so thankful and polite when they got to come in. A the same time the kids in the back or who didn't get food would start to push to the front, or fight. It was a mixture of emotions all a once. sweet and salty. 

The was still more kids outside the gates waiting for food after we ran out, which was sad, but the reality of how many we fed was much greater. That bucket of food they got was so much greater than just lunch for them. Sometimes it gets split between kids in that household- and it is one less mouth to feed for their parents that night, so the rest of the family will get that much more food for everyone else. Even for one day. 

It was amazing how the food multiplied and we fed so many. At the beginning I  didn't think that we had half the amount that we did. God definitely blessed the food that those children received and the hands that made it. 

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