Feeding the Hungry

Feeding the Hungry

“Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.” (Isaiah 58:10)

Our ministry of providing food staples and hot meals is a meaningful, practical way to demonstrate the reality of God's love and care for those in need. Over the years, and especially throughout this year, we have become more aware and concerned for people who do not get enough to eat.

Rainy Season makes it especially difficult for people experiencing poverty in the city or the province to obtain food.

For three years during the "COVID Time," with God's help, we gave monthly gifts of rice to the families of our fellowship and some who were not.

We provided a special hot meal to the children and staff at the King's FilAm Children's Home for over ten years. This year, we began supplying three-quarters of their monthly rice.

Since March 2023, it has been our privilege and joy to sponsor hot meals once a month for Aeta children and their families. The To God be the Glory ministry staff purchases and prepares the meals. We join them in the villages for the distribution of the meals. We pray for the people and do our best to encourage them. "Knowing" that someone cares is as essential to them as the food gift.

The love that comes from the people who send money for the food, the love that is an ingredient added by Filipinos who work to prepare the food, and the love flowing from the village pastors who distribute the meals is felt and received by the Aetas.

The August monsoons did not prevent the love from flowing and the food from being delivered. At one point, Olongapo flooded for two days consecutively, at night! Our ministry space became a Temporary Evacuation Shelter for two families escaping the flood waters.

Roads in and out of the city were impassable. In the province, there was flooding, landslides, and destruction of roads and bridges. The weather made the dire situation for the Aetas even worse. The relentless rain had damaged or destroyed their vegetable gardens and severely hampered hunting and gathering, creating a hunger emergency. Pastor Ladringan asked for assistance, and we responded with a gift to provide two days' worth of food for 40 Aeta families.

“For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink...” (Matthew 25:35)