“I keep spare newspaper in the trunk to help with this,” Flavio says as he removes the soup covered paper. He is carrying 5 large containers of soup that will feed over 100 people. One of them has sloshed over.
Flavio began a friendship with the owners of a popular restaurant in town last year, who were looking for a place to give their leftovers. Throughout the day, whatever is not eaten is thrown into the soup pot—and then put into six large plastic containers.
Five of these go to Paudalho, where Tony, one of the elders at the church, distributes them from his home. It is an amazing ministry reaching and making a daily difference for around 50 families. The last container goes with Flavio: three days to Cajueiro Claro, and two days to Mussurepe.
Flavio worked at a pharmacy in Paudalho for many years, trying to save money and live a decent life. Then God called him to something more. In 2010, he began walking a couple miles each way to start a Living Stones for the children in Cajueiro Claro. In 2011 he was given a motorcycle to help him get around faster. In 2012, God provided a car.
This is election year, and the restaurant owner is running for a government position. Apparently doing things like donating soup isn’t allowed, so the owner has given the whole job to Flavio to continue. Just another blessing to add to his plate, and another grateful prayer that he has a vehicle.
Since Flavio wasn’t able to use the soup on the weekends, he has connected the Baptist church working at the dump with the Saturday and Sunday soup, meaning that all three Living Stones projects are now receiving over 100 servings of soup a week for the children and their families. Praise God!
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