This week was our church's turn to provide a meal for people at the local homeless shelter. Bill & I usually sign up for what has become a favorite--mac 'n cheese, (a recipe from a dear friend of mine). And this time we decided to make two lbs. of macaroni instead of one.
In the past we have always brought our dish to the church by 2PM and then those who were planning to serve the food, heated it in the church oven before leaving for the shelter. This time, however, I had the idea to bring it HOT to the church just at the time they would be loading the food into the vehicles, getting ready to leave. It would be less for them to have to be concerned about, I thought.
A friend who lives nearby called us and offered to pick up our food because she was going to be going to the church at 3:30PM and then on to help serve the meal. We were so appreciative of her offer and both trays of the mac 'n cheese were hot when she picked them up here.
Later that evening she phoned and said it was a good thing we had sent ours hot because the church ran out of propane halfway through the heating of the other dishes. The workers had to transport everything to the soup kitchen and hurriedly finish heating things up in the ovens there. Meanwhile, because the mac 'n cheese was hot, it was able to be served without delay.
This was the first time we had made a double batch of macaroni, and the first time we had had the food hot and all ready to be served at the soup kitchen. God knew what was going to happen that day, so this was His plan. Oh, how I love the way God goes before us!
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