Shortly thereafter, members of the team, Roland and Theresa Poirier, were introduced to Silas Owiti-Oduor, a resident of Canada, native to Siaya, Kenya, by Lynn Fraser, a local business person as well as long time friend of Silas' wife Kimberly. Together they discussed the issues and concerns in the village of Alego, Siaya. Given the backgrounds of everyone who was brought together, the answer seemed to be pointing to food production and community gardens in the village. When the initial team discussed this meeting with the leaders of TBCO, and notified them of their plans to visit this village, TBCO took on the project as one of their outreach missions. Read more about the issues and concerns of this district and the current status of the village of Alego projects under the Current Villages section above.
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Why the name YouFeedThem? The decision to name the mission 'YouFeedThem' came about when recalling the historical event referred to as "the miracle of the loaves and fishes". As thousands gathered to hear the teachings of Jesus Christ, his disciples realized that the crowd was getting hungry and asked him to send them away so they could get something to eat. He responded by saying "You feed them". A small boy brought a basket containing five loaves of bread and two fish to Jesus; he gave thanks, broke and gave the food to the disciples to set before the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. (Luke 9:10-17) The YouFeedThem group is hopeful that this miracle will be duplicated for the many starving people in our world. |
'You Feed Them'
is a ministry of Trinity
Bible Church of Ottawa