Yesterday we finished our survey process of finding out all of what is happening with our church ministry partners that pick up food weekly through our Evangelistic Food Distribution program. Here are some of the highlights...
* Currently, 238 churches/ministries pick up food every week from our Lynwood warehouse/resource center. This has increased by 63 ministries since November of 2002.
* The estimated average number of individuals who receive food every month has increased from 360,325 to 401,030.
* We have seen an increase of almost 200% in congregants involved in evangelism (from an average of 9 people to 26 people from each participating church) in the last two years.
* On average, over 2100 people are estimated to have come to Christ each month, an increase of 300% since we commenced the training procedure (the growth has been from 700 conversions a month to 2142 per month, as each ministry averages nine positive salvation responses per month).
* On average, 86% of people are being followed up in some form or another, an increase of 36% since the training process was instituted. Most of these numbers are being assimilated into the respective churches.
* An estimated 57.5% of people receiving food are non-believers, up 3.5 % from last year.
We are especially pleased to see what God is doing through this program in light of the national USDA food shortage. Our USAD food allotment dropped over 75% since January 2003 (the USDA program represents about 90% of our food supply). Unfortunately, this resulted in recipients receiving less food per week then they were in 2002-2003. However, we praise God that more churches joined the program and entered the training process, thus increasing the overall spiritual impact in spite of the lesser food amounts.
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