For the Sharing Kindness Foundation (SFK), outreach began with a question of faith and ended with what the organisation calls a miracle of provision.

When planning started, the team knew they did not have the capacity to feed more than 300 people on their own.

Two additional feeding initiatives were added in the same week, and again the team says they had faith that they would make a way to feed all those people.

For three months leading up to the event, almost no food donations came in.

So they prepared anyway. “We packed and prepared as though we already had the food, even though we had nothing,” said founder Nic Janse van Rensburg.

Then, less than 18 hours before the outreach, which takes place every Thursday, a walk-in fridge at a local business in Mulbarton broke down.

The business owner asked Nic if he could come collect the food. This donation represented a miracle for all involved.

The team was able to supply all three committed outreaches that week and still had enough to feed everyone.

As preparations begin for this year’s outreach, the organisation says it is stepping out with “great expectations” and trusting God to do it again.

Janse van Rensburg reflected on the story: “When you have nothing left but faith, you see God move in ways you can’t explain. That fridge breaking at around 14:00 was not a coincidence to us. It was provision.

As we continue to feed people this year, we’re not carrying fear – we’re carrying expectation, because we’ve seen faith carry us through before,” he said.