When the worship service was over our daughter asked if she could invite some friends over to swim in the pool. David wanted to invite a few buddies also. We said it would be all right but they would have to go home in time to change for church at 5 PM.

All total we had 18 teenagers in our pool when a really bad thunderstorm rolled in at about 4:30 PM. I called each parent and told him or her that their children could eat at our house and go to church from there at 6 PM. Hopefully the storm would have gone through by then.

The young people changed back into their Church clothes while I prepared Dinner.

I only had one chicken, plenty of potatoes and several cans of green beans. I prayed for God to multiply the chicken as I cut it up. I made fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and cornbread.

Everyone ate their fill and rushed across the street to church while there was a break in the weather at 5:30 PM.

Al & I put the dishes in the sink and gathered up the leftovers. When Al put the 5^th chicken leg in a zip-lock bag, he got all excited. He took the left over chicken to show the church that God had multiplied the chicken. I don’t know who else believed it but the children did – they saw me cut up just one chicken.

1 Ki 17:12-14 So she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die." And Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. "For thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the LORD sends rain on the earth.'"

Mat 14:19-21 Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.