Food Program - a place for the Homeless

Ethiopia, Thursday October 25th 2007

Every Wednesday is't time for Food Program. This is the best attended service in the entire week, a couple of weeks ago we had about 300 visitors, 50-60 of these were children. The only thing that differce this service from others are that every person receives a food package afterwards.

Every week men and women come and sit down with their children and worship the Lord, and every week they give what they can in the offering. It might not be so much in our eyes, but compared to what they have, many times it's more than most people give. After the message there's always an invitation to make Jesus Lord and saviour.

Children and adults at Food Program in Dire Dawa

Many choose to stay and eat after the service, and it's amazing to see how many choose to share their food with others, even though this might be the only cooked meal they eat for days.

The children have their own service in one of the rooms close by. It's impressing to see 50-60 kids sit quietly for so long to listen. many of these kids live on the streets of Dire Dawa. Children that Jesus love and gave His life for!