A Christmas message from Pakistan

 Merry Christmas!
 
I am back from Pakistan to be with my family during this time of the year to celebrate Christmas. Thank you so much for your prayers and support; This time, I was in Pakistan for three weeks and I went to four different areas (Youhana Abad, Narowal, Shahkot and Murid-Ke) to hold crusades (evangelistic & healing meetings).  I also ministered in two churches in Lahore and God moved in all of these meetings in a powerful way. Thousands of people came to these meetings. About 1600 hundred people made the commitment to the Lordship of Christ and many received healings and miracles. We saw lame people walking, partially blind eyes opening and 

many other healings and deliverances took place.  To God be the Glory! 

 
This year again we did the Christmas project in which we gave gifts to hundreds of children. We also gave new clothes and shoes to the kids at the Children's Home orphanage. And we served a big Christmas dinner to hundreds of children and poor people in Youngson Abad. Children and poor people were greatly blessed by this year's Christmas project. Again, thank you so much to those who gave toward this year's Christmas project. God gave us favor with the local authorities and with the government of Punjab (One of the four provinces of Pakistan). And so a big local official from the district of Nankana Sahib and a provincial minister for "Human rights and Religious Affairs" had also come to the CFP Christmas event. And two friends (Robert and Melissa)from Denver, Colorado also came to the Christmas

event and they participated in other ministry events as well.They were a great blessing and encouragement to us in Pakistan.CFP medical team did a free medical camp in Youngson Abad.In this camp our medical team treated 

more than 400 people including children who were suffering with various diseases.We also gave them free

medicine. This year in our Bible College we trained 31students to evangelize Pakistan with the gospel of our

Lord Jesus Christ.

Please keep these students inyour prayers. And also 

please continue to keep "Christian Fellowship Of Pakistan" 

(CFP) and all of its ministries (23 Churches, a school & orphanage, 

Bible College, Widows ministry, medical ministry and the evangelistic 

ministry) in your prayers. Thank you!
 
May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you richly and use you continually 

to expand His kingdom in the Muslim world.
 
In Christ,
 
Salik John Barkat
Pastor
 
P.S. Our new 4WD vehicle was a great blessing in travelling to all these 

different areas in Pakistan. Again, thank you so much 

for contributing toward this vehicle. 
 

Romania Field Trip

Over the past 8 years I have had the privilege of visiting one or 2 orphanages in Romania and to help out on various projects, but this trip opened my eyes to the desperate needs facing the forgotten children of this impoverished country.

 Romania, a slower developer than other former communist countries of Eastern Europe, The legacy of communist-era leader Nicolae Ceausescu, who was feared and loathed in approximately equal measure, lingered long after the uprising which brought his execution on Christmas Day 1989. Failure to push ahead sufficiently with reforms meant that the country was not on the list of new EU members four years later. However, in April 2005 Bucharest signed the EU accession treaty, paving the way for Romania to join the union in January 2007.

It’s Population is over 21 million with over 640 state and private orphanages responsible for over 100,000 children, with a further 100,000 street kids who require assistance every day. Most of these children are affected drastically by the global financial crisis. Many of them left with relatives whilst their parents have sought to find work across Europe or even left to fend for themselves.

Feed The Hungry have chosen to partner with Bread of Life  to bring the Every Child Every Day food program into Romania, Our goal on this trip was to establish the start of this new venture with a commitment to feed 530 Children Every Day with Vitamin enriched Soup mix and Beans.

Part of this program we visited on this trip included 2 Churches in The Southern Region Of Calarasi in the villages of Spantov and Chiselet where we are providing food every day for over 220 Children, where unemployment runs at over 70%, here we had children walking to the Churches in their parents shoes as they did not have any over their own. Walking into a room of fun loving kids who were so appreciative of the food was a great blessing, but also a wakeup call to the enormity of the situation.

From the Calarasi area we travelled 9 hours to our next destination up in the Northern Mountains to a small town of Brosteni, to The Bread of Life orphanage, where we were met by Gabi and his team who care for children aging from as young as 3 to 18 years of age. The statistics where a stark reminder of the needs in this country as exemplified by the rural town of  Brosteni with a population of around  8,000 people which has a state orphanage caring for 50 children, as well as The Bread of Life orphanage which has 95 kids and an extended food program for another 50 children in the area.

Yet whilst we were there we were given a taste of the heart of the team and the children, when we were invited to follow the ‘meals on wheels team’ of young lads from the orphanage who go out every day on their bikes with hot

food in back packs to widows and less able people in the area. When asked why they do it, there reply is ‘its good that we can give a little from what we receive’ it was a very humbling experience to meet such great young lads who will ride up to 2 hrs to get the food out to those in need.

The following day we travelled south to Piatra-Neampt the largest town in the area, where we visited a feeding program at a local church for 70 kids. What was beginning to hit me was that even though we were only there for a few days, and only had a snapshot of the needs in these towns across Romania. It was also a timely reminder that we need to remember the dedication of the cooks and helpers, who are there every day for these children.

On our way back to Bucharest we visited an orphanage in Ploiesti run by a young family who have dedicated their lives and finances to help the fatherless, building a orphanage which holds 35 children and with the assistance of Feed the Hungry in partnership with Bread of Life is able to extend its program in the area to open up its kitchens to provide food daily to a further 35 local children.

These are a few of most fortunate of the forgotten, there are only part of the untold multitudes of children that are abandon or orphaned each year. At Feed The Hungry we believe that God has a special love for the fatherless, and hope that you will share in God’s commission in James 1v27 ... Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.......

Partnering with the many dedicated people across Romania, and with the diligence of the Bread of Life team in distributing the food to the projects across the country, we believe that through your help we can make a real difference to the lives of many..... £4 is all it takes to help feed a child for a month no more than the price of a take away.

Please help today to make a difference in bringing life giving help to the forgotten children of Romania.

Kibera Relief - News Flash

Over the past few weeks,Feed the Hungry have had a container of food awaiting release in Customs. Due to unforeseen circumstances the container has been waiting desperately to be released to assist in feeding 1500 children in the Kibera slums of Niraobi.


With the assistance of Daniel in our Czech office in sorting the clearance fees, the container has now reached the Soweto Academy.


As you can see from the photos Pastor Chris Okumu and his team made short work of unloading the packages of fortified rice meals ready to be delivered to the 3 schools. 


A great Gift of God through the generosity of his people worldwide working together to provide food to the helpless.

Thank you for all your prayers and assistance in making this possible  

Haiti Cholera Outbreak

Cholera-contaminated drinking water has already claimed over 900 lives…14,000 are sick…and the numbers are sky-rocketing

CLEAN DRINKING WATER IS THE KEY.

Right now, Feed The Hungry has the opportunity to install two 10,000-gallon water purification systems that will provide 20,000 gallons of safe drinking water PER DAY in the heart of the cholera outbreak area. But we must raise £28,000 immediately to make it happen.

Every £1.40 you share will provide a gallon of life-saving water DAILY until this crisis ends.  A one-time gift of £14 will provide 10 gallons of clean water every

day through the end of the cholera crisis.

Your one-time gift of £56 will provide 40 gallons of drinking water DAILY!

Clean drinking water is vital to prevent the spread of disease as well as to treat already-infected cholera patients.  PLEASE GIVE AS GENEROUSLY

AS YOU CAN TODAY.

Call today on 0845 519 6025 or email me gwilliams@feedthehungry.org

May God bless you for whatever you can share today to help save lives!

Childcare Kitgum Servants – Uganda

Kitgum district is in the northern part of Uganda. It is located between Longitude 320E, and 340E, Latitude 020N and 040 N. It is bordered by the Republic of Sudan in the North, Kotido District in the East, Pader District in the South and Gulu District in the Northwest. Kitgum is almost exclusively an agricultural district. The land available for subsistence farming In Kitgum is 3,200 sq. km, producing mainly food crops such as beans, pigeon peas, millet, simsim, cassava and sorghum. Cash crops grown in Kitgum are cotton, rice, maize and tobacco. 53,103 hectares are forest reserves, which belong to both the Central government and the district.Most animals in Kitgum were rustled away during the insurgency. At the moment there are 3,946 indigenous and only 35 exotic (crossed) heads of cattle in Kitgum.

‘Kitgum is located sixty miles to the south of the Sudanese border.  It has been ravaged by a civil war for the last twenty years, thanks largely to the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army).You can feel the pain and suffering that the war has caused wherever you go in Kitgum. The children were to afraid to sleep in the villages where they might be kidnapped and be forcibly recruited in the LRA.  They walked many kilometers every day to the relative safety of the night shelters. Most adults lived in the IDP camps (Internally Displaced People).  Their own villages are either too unsafe or just not there: the mud brick huts are just too easy to burn down.  We heard many stories of people perishing in mud-huts set alight by the LRA.’

This is an extract from a journal from 2006, since then peace has come to the area with the LRA chased out of Uganda and Sudan. However the ravages of war are still apparent in the stories of the people and children you meet. For an Australian woman: General Gradma Irene Gleeson as they call her,  not only live through but achieve so much in the last 19 years is more than extraordinary. Her story is an epic  tale in itself, yet her heart is for the people and especially for the children who have gone to Hell and back in the past few years.

Creating not only a safe house or a place of rest, but a place of restoration and hope, working with the children to enable them to reach to their full potential, and if there was no opportunities for their skills to be used elsewhere she has developed the opportunities for them to excel. As part of the endeavour to make this happen Feed the Hungry support the feeding program for the school, which is a significant task as they use 8 tons of Rice, maze and beans every week, to feed over 8,000 children through the 5 different schools they run in the area.

The Schools program has been extended by developing A technical college for the youth to learn building skills, carpentry, metalwork, tailoring and even a driving school, whilst also developing creative opportunities for the young people to express themselves through painting, dance, music, and rap. Guns for guitars is one of those programs helping  child soldiers get over there traumatic experience of being forced into war and being able to release their energy in a positive way. Seeing Hakiim teach rap and dance moves to the younger kids was exquisite, and standing in front of 15ft high murals painted by Everest Otto was extraordinary. 

 

All this would not be possible without your support, as there is no government funding ( though this is becoming closer: please pray for a breakthrough ) or very little from the family members or clans to support Childcare at Kitgum. Feed the Hungry are proud to support the work at Kitgum and look forward to supporting Irene And her team, as we see how a pound here can make such a huge impact 4,500 miles away. 

Through the generosity of our partners and friends none of this would be possible, it cost us less than £4 a month to feed a child as we have been provided with meals to send out to our projects world wide, so all we have to do is provide the means to get the meals to the projects across the world.

Over the past 12 months due to the HUGE help of 

people worldwide we have been able to stretch 

out our comittment from around 23,000 meals 

every dayto just over 30,000 meals every day 

for children who without your help would go without.

If you would like to help please call me today 

On 0845 519 6025

or email me at

gwilliams@feedthehungry.org

 

 

Kampala

Since the late 1980s Uganda has rebounded from the abyss of civil war and economic catastrophe to become relatively peaceful, stable and prosperous.

But the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the north remain blighted by one of Africa's most brutal rebellions. In the 1970s and 1980s Uganda was notorious for its human rights abuses, first during the military dictatorship of Idi Amin from 1971-79 and then after the return to power of Milton Obote, who had been ousted by Amin.

During this time up to half a million people were killed in state-sponsored violence.

Since becoming president in 1986 Yoweri Museveni has introduced democratic reforms and has been credited with substantially improving human rights, notably by reducing abuses by the army and the police.At home, the cult-like Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has perpetrated massacres and mutilations in the north for nearly two decades.

The group's leader has said he wants to run the country along the lines of the biblical Ten Commandments. The violence has displaced more than 1.6 million people and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or kidnapped. The UN estimates that the group has abducted 20,000 children.

Uganda has won praise for its vigorous campaign against HIV/Aids. This has helped to reduce the prevalence of the virus - which reached 30% in the 1990s - to single-digit figures.

It’s amazing how much a cup of rice or cornmeal can brighten a child’s day! But that’s exactly what the partners of Feed the Hungry provide for children in Uganda through the Every Child Every Day program. The Effects on the children’s health is immense even down to simple things like hair growth, stronger teeth, and the largest  change they see is a significant change in concentration levels and the ability to retain information. 

Pastor Solomon, our outreach ministries partner in Uganda helps oversee the assistance of our daily food program at several locations outside the capital city of Kampala. The King Solomon Academy, Good News Evangelical Ministries, Vineyard Christian School, and Little Angels Christian School help bring the love of Christ and provide a hot nutritious lunch to 1400 children daily.

Along with the School curriculum Pastor Solomon Runs a sports outreach, which over  weekends ranging from playing chess to netball and the most popular football, in which they have one several under 16 trophies, which sit very proudly on his desk.

Ever mindful of the support that Feed the Hungry  provide the program pastor Solomon  has now a small farm of around 4 Acres, were he a chickens goats, cows and is looking at creating a fish farm in order to support and expand the school program. He hopes that the farm within a couple of years will support around 400 children enabling the work to outreach to other communities around the Kampala region.

Through the generosity of our partners and supporters for Feed the Hungry, and our partners on the ground, we can break the bonds of poverty and hunger, and reach out to a people in need.    

North Korea

Feed the Hungry has been involved in feeding North Korean children since 2006 in Sunbong, North Korea,which is an economic free zone close to the China border of Tumen River. We are to feeding 400 children with a piece of bread and a cup of soymilk during school days, we invite our donors to commit HKD$150/£12 each month to feed four children. For the price of two takeaway’s  a needy child’s hunger pang is kept away. 

Most children went to school without breakfast, evening meals may or may not be served on the table, but the security of receiving something to eat in school is a joy and comfort to teachers and parents.After a few years of good relationship building and trust, I have come to love and respect the hundreds upon hundreds of lives touched by the ongoing work of Christ in DPRK through Feed the Hungry, and through other Christian ministries, who quietly and faithfully working for the good health of North Korean children.

Over the summer period, I was invited to visit Children Homes in Pyongyang, to see if we would like to partner with a North Korean agency to help orphans, I said yes right away to such invitation, but the visa did not arrive till the last week of September, and we planned on leaving for Pyongyang via Beijing on 7th October. We were told by our minder, to bring a formal evening wear with us. We joked and said did they plan for us to have a photo session with their leader, Kim Jong Il….. little did we know, we were quite close to that.Whatever fantastic tales come out of North Korea and quoting from the New York Times, “would-be successor has had cosmetic surgery to make him resemble his grandfather.” Or from a Newsweek recent issue, they reported “Kim Jr., now heralded as the “brilliant comrade” in Pyongyang propaganda. Some analysts believe he was the brains behind the March attack on the South Korean ship Cheonan.” I am just as curious about this nuclear-armed “hermit kingdom” and Kim Junior and if Pyongyang is a model city of North Korea, I would like to see. This would be a special trip to me. On one occasion, when I looked at Kim Jong Un close up, I thought wow he does look like his grandfather, Kim Il Sun.

Our formal dress turned out to be very useful, our minder never told us anything except once or twice he slipped and said we would see the power of North Korea, like all the Pyongyang citizens, our minder was keen to show visitors and the world through the eyes of the journalists that all is well in their country, the young heir has been appointed, the ruling power is still in control. I have visited Sunbong a few times, I walked the embankment of Tumen River many times, across the river, North Korea generally is all dark. But today the whole city’s lights were on, from my hotel bed room I could see the Juche Tower clearly. Juche ideology insists that 'humanity is the heart of everything’, this dominates how the North Koreans live, behave and call for total loyalty to the Kim Dynastic ruling power. 

When the fun was over, we were back to the real agenda of our visit, which was to visit the Orphanage Schools in North Pyongyang. We took a six hours train ride from the city centre to Shinaju, along the way, it was nothing but rice paddy fields, as we travelled further away from the city, we saw many rice fields were destroyed by the recent flooding. This year will not be a good rice harvest, this year many will suffer from hunger again, even on a good harvest year, the nation’s demand was still higher than supply. We visited three government run Orphanage Schools. 

We travelled past so many check points, soldiers were everywhere, if we did not have our proper papers or right accompanying units, I don’t think we could travel around the country side at all.At the age of 5, children enter Kindergarten for 2 years, between the age of 6 years old to 16 years old, children need to attend school, which consists of 4 years primary school and 6 years middle school. Children came to the Orphanage School when their parents died and their neighbours reported them and the school would take these children in. When we met with the workers and helpers, they admitted honestly that the Government had tried to supply their needs, but much resources were still lacking to support the young children in their formative years, their main sources of supply for food, for building materials, for general needs are from the designated village that were called to provide. But the farmers themselves were also in the lacking. The first school principal was sharing how some of the windows in the school could not shut well to keep the rain or wind out, farmers in their unit, whenever they got money, they would supply two or three new window frames or glasses, then they had to wait for the next round of haves. The School Principals were reaching out for help for the good of their children.The second school tried to do experimental farming within the school, their tries brought them extra 10-12 tons of vegetable last year, and they were happy with the result, the green house technology, know-how and equipment was the contribution and donation from a group in Europe.

 They admitted children were under nourished, they needed better food; the school faced clean water and sanitation issues as well, the children became sick because of these two unresolved issues, and they did not know how to resolve the problem given the lack of resources. We found a school hall of over 200 children watching DVD cartoon on a little TV set. We were shown 7-8 children a room playing or singing with their minders, this would be their sleeping area as well as play area. When we walked in, they were so happy to greet us in traditional Korean greeting, but they would not have a second greeting or any other answers to any questions we asked. It was sad to see the children were like robots being winded up, and computed to say certain greetings. Despite it all, we found them happy, playing football and skipping ropes in the playground, no toys around, we did not see any. No school library, no computer room, no game room.


The third School was deep in the countryside, we found classrooms to be basic, good stationery and reading books were absence, no educational toys, no musical instrument that one would see in a school. They were supposed to be high school kids, but they looked so tiny small compared to their same age group counterparts in Asia. The average intake of any given orphanage school was 1,000 children maximum, with 45 teachers serving these children. Most of the funding to sustain these schools came from overseas. In an open conversation, the Principal shared their needs of stationery, warm clothing, noodles, sugar, cooking oil, soybean, wheat flour, bedding etc; their roof top needed fixing, windows were falling away; no medicine in the medical room. The list went on.down our journey, we deeply felt the urgency to help these orphan school children, most of the children carry the after effect of one that gone through hunger or malnutrition. Hunger created many ill effects to the development of a child’s future growth, not just physically but the development of the brain too. We need to help them to eat well when they were young. We also believed God would use His Church strategically to make disciples of all nations. It is our sincere prayer that many people will be raised up to help the poor, feed the hungry and have God’s heart for North Korea. To give hope and a future to those not able to help themselves.


This report filed by our FTH Hong Kong Director, Armanda da Roza

My Trip to Kibera in Kenya

KIBERA

‘There are approx 2.5 million slum dwellers in about 200 settlements in Nairobi representing 60% of the Nairobi population, occupying just 6% of the land. Kibera houses almost 1 Million of these people. Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa and one of the biggest in the world.

The average size of shack in this area is 12ft x 12ft built with mud walls, screened with concrete, a corrugated tin roof, dirt or concrete floor. The cost is about Ksh 700 per Month (£6). These shacks often house up to 8 or more, many sleeping on the floor.

Until recently Kibera had no water and it had to be collected from the Nairobi dam. The dam water is not clean and causes typhoid and cholera. Now there are two mains water pipes into Kibera, one from the municipal council and one from the World Bank. Residents collect water at Ksh 3 per 20 litres.

In most of Kibera there are no toilet facilities. One latrine (hole in the ground) is shared by up to 50 shacks. Once full, young boys are employed to empty – they take the contents to the river. UN-Habitat and a few other agencies are trying to help and improve this situation but it is painfully slow.In Kibera there are no government clinics or hospitals. The providers are the charitable organisations: They do a great job. All people are encouraged to have a free HIV test and if positive to take free generic ARV medicine.

Kibera is near the industrial area of Nairobi where up to 50% of the available workforces are employed (usually in fairly unskilled jobs). However, there is still an unemployment rate of 50%. This is why the training and teaching of skills is very important.’ 

(Facts from kibera.org.uk)

In amongst the squalor, garbage strewn alleyways tin clad shacks there is a pearl that shines out in the form of a Church run School called Soweto Academy, run by Pastor Chris & JoAnne Okumu, providing a feeding program through its 3 schools to over 1500 children, and providing an education which is now acknowledged as one of the top schools in Nairobi, a huge achievement, which Feed the Hungry is proud to support with a feeding program in conjunction with Stop Hunger now, to provide nutritional meals every day for the children and teachers.

Having just got back from visiting The Academy you can only admire the hard work and dedication that the team put into providing a stable environment, giving hope where there were none. The contrast of people living in such a hopeless environment to the work at the Soweto Academy was immense. The contrast in health for those who attend the school is huge, and it was a privilege to be able to spend some time to be part of the lives of those children through helping to serve food at the schools, which was a very humbling experience. 

Though reality struck home when Pastor Chris made us aware that a lot of the children will store half of their food to take how as this was the only means of food their families would have.

The school has provided some really stories of hope for the children from the achievements of those already having graduated from the school, to become nurses teachers and even one of the students now being one of the chief software engineers for Microsoft in Kenya.

Pastor Chris Okumu is not one for holding back, or being totally dependent on aid or state support, and has developed a medical clinic for the local population, and drilled 600 ft to provide a clean supply of water for the school and which they provide free to the surrounding community.

Through the dedication prayer and financial help of our partners and supporters of Feed the Hungry is what makes all this possible to bring hope where there is none, life where there is despair, and a future out of a dark place.

Continued help for the flood victims

From Pastor Salik John

Before I left Pakistan I took our medical team to the flood affected areas again and we did medical camps in four different areas. Our medical team treated about 1500 flood victims that had cholera, malaria and skin diseases. In all of these four places we shared the Love of Christ and prayed in the name of Christ with the flood victims before we started the medical camps...............


I am again leaving for Pakistan next Sunday to do more relief work; We will be installing water purification systems (which will be donated to us by Feed The Hungry, Germany). And we will also be distributing tents and winter beddings. We will continue to do the medical camps as well. Please pray that the Lord may provide more finances and resources to continue with the relief work.  Thank you!

Thank you from Sudan

Thanks to your support, over 700 children in South Sudan have not had to worry if they’d get to eat each day. They've been able to know each day of the year that they had a good, hot meal waiting for them at school or at the local church.

£4 will feed a child for an entire month, and one gift of  £45 will provide a daily meal to a child for a whole year!  We have 723 children in our Every Child Every Day program in south Sudan right now, and 3,000 more urgently waiting to be included.

Your generous gift today will help us rush much needed food staples to Sudan for the year ahead. We won’t give up on our commitment to these children. We will not let them go hungry. Thank you for considering this great need and acting today.

May God richly bless you!

Niger report

 Over the coming weeks I will have the privilege of listening and reading the testimonies of those people on the ground benefiting form your generosity and look forward to sharing them with you on this Blog. Below you will see photos and some extracts from there report from Ong Vie Abondante who partner with us in Niger which is going through a very long period of drought.

COUNTRY:  Niger      City: Niamey / Maradi / surrounding villages

Organization Name:  ONG Vie Abondante

Director(s) Name(s):  Rev. Neal Childs

School / Orphanage/ Location Name(s):  

The majority of food this year has been given out to families through 30 church  locations

Number of Children fed daily:  approximately 1400 children & 500 adults

 TESTIMONIES

From Pastor Hasimu, Eglise Vie Abondante – Maradi.

We give thanks to God that through His grace he has provided this rice which is like the manna from heaven that children of Israel received.  It is a big help supporting us and especially the children of Niger.  This food has really strengthened the children's bodies.  They are always desiring this food and it has been like a medicine to their hunger.  We testify about these kids that many of them had emaciated bodies, even close to death, but when the rice came it helped them to put weight on and they changed a lot.  They were strengthened greatly.  Even now they are able to run and play games.  Now they are happy especially when they see the rice being cooked. 

So we the parents thank you and request that you continue to send the rice.  We thank God for you and pray that He blesses you.  Thanks for your giving heart to the children of Niger.

From Pastor Moctar, Eglise Vie Abondante – Niamey

1. This is about a man that received the Manna Pack rice from our church.

The man and his wife with their 3 children are passing a very difficult situation in their Ramadan period.  We doubt there is any food in the house at all. This was first time to receive this rice, and they were very grateful to the church for helping to survive in the hard times.  They said, “Our children are really enjoying the food.”

2. A family man with 1 wife 8 children and no work or source of income.  He was very surprise to the pastor bringing a carton of rice for him at the right time of need in his family.  Now the man is very close to the pastor, and his giving a good testimony about the church.

3. A widow with 5 children and have stay at home to fulfill the Islamic religion/tradition.  When she receive the 2 cartons of the manna pack she was very happy and surprise to see a gift from the church. The pastor wife has a good relationship with the family now.