{"id":14076,"date":"2014-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/14076\/feed-a-childs-soup\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:15:59","slug":"feed-a-childs-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/10\/feed-a-childs-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Feed a Child&#8217;s soup outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journalist was invited to go with the team from Feed A Child and Blue Ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>The minute I saw all the children and their parents running up to the vehicle, my heart stopped a beat and in my thoughts I started praying: &#8220;please Lord, be merciful and make the soup last just like the widow&#8217;s oil in the Bible. Please let there be enough!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14078\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_606601243.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14078\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_606601243-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Bongani Maimela (Feed A Child), Judy van Deventer (Feed a Child) and Themba Nkosi and Maryke Biddulph (from Premier Foods, Blue Ribbon) with a few of the children.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_606601243-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_606601243-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_606601243.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bongani Maimela (Feed A Child), Judy van Deventer (Feed a Child) and Themba Nkosi and Maryke Biddulph (from Premier Foods, Blue Ribbon) with a few of the children.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The row grew and grew, and Judy van Deventer and her team from Feed A Child just gave and gave. First the children and then they invited the parents. Everybody got a cup of soup and some of them even came for second servings!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14080\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_526583532.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14080\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_526583532-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"A two year old child enjoying the soup and bread.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_526583532-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_526583532-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_526583532.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A two year old child enjoying the soup and bread.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;How is it possible?&#8221; I thought for a second and then the words of 2 Kings 4 flushed through my mind where the widow&#8217;s little jar of oil refused to stop pouring. Judy saw the doubt in my mind earlier and after the feeding, she just smiled and said: &#8220;we see miracles every day!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Middelburg Feed a child hand out soup to Evergreen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87uSX1d_dh0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Feed A Child would like to thank the staff of Ladida for the soup and Premier Foods, Blue Ribbon, for the bread.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14077\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_574030535.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14077\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_574030535-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"A few of the children who received soup and bread from Feed A Child.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_574030535-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_574030535-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/07\/14aa22-_574030535.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few of the children who received soup and bread from Feed A Child.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an icy cold Tuesday morning the warm pot of soup which Feed A Child brought to the Evergreen informal settlement satisfied all like the widow&#8217;s oil in the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":14079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"XXXXX","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1892,1893,1894,1896,1895,1890,1891],"class_list":["post-14076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-blue-ribbon","tag-bread","tag-cold","tag-feed-a-child-sa","tag-hungry","tag-middelburg-feed-a-child","tag-soup"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Blue Ribbon","bread","cold","Feed a Child SA","hungry","Middelburg Feed a Child","soup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}