Launch of food trailer a great success

Serving lunches to those in need with the LIA food trailer Saturday at the library.

I'm always excited about a ministry opportunity at Love In Action, but this past Saturday the level of my enthusiasm and expectation rose higher and higher as the day approached. A long-awaited prayer request had been answered and was about to be launched. Saturday was the maiden voyage of our new food trailer.

God has blessed us with a beautiful, well-built food trailer that we will use to reach thousands of people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through acts of compassion. Those acts will be providing food for those who don't know where their next meal is coming from. Imagine being hungry and wondering where and when you will eat again and a pickup truck pulling a trailer pulls up. The side of the trailer goes up and people are handing you food from that trailer. You would have no doubt that God has not forgotten you.

That happened Saturday as we used the food trailer for the first time.

We started the day by serving BBQ sandwiches from the trailer at Love In Action. I wanted to start at home so we can learn what we need and don't need without being out in the city unprepared. It worked out great. Bro. Robert hooked up a new electrical plug for the trailer, and Bro. Bill brought us some step-down connections we needed to plug the trailer in. From that point, everything worked perfectly.

Our friends from Wiregrass Church smoked six Boston butts for the BBQ sandwiches. Our brother Erik knows how to use that smoker. That was some delicious BBQ, and all of our friends thought so, too. We served 100 meals at Love in Action.

Later Saturday afternoon, Martha, Dan and I took the food trailer out into the community. The trailer has a built-in, self-contained battery, so the lights work when we are out in the community. We took BBQ meals, fish dinners, and vegetable soup to a couple of low-rent hotels, the public library parking lot, and tent city. We served 75 more meals, but what made the entire day with the trailer worthwhile was a young man at one of the hotels who gave his life to Jesus.

A soul saved and 175 meals served made for a great first day with the food trailer. We know God is going to use this food trailer to reach thousands of people. We will be able to provide for physical needs, which will open doors to tell people about Jesus.

We thank God for this wonderful tool to spread His Gospel and meet needs.

The team from Wiregrass Church who helped us break in our new food trailer.

Making BBQ sandwiches inside the new Love In Action food trailer.