2000 sandwiches

When I was a kid, I read about David Wilkerson who took to Gospel to the gangs of NewYork. I even saw the movie "The Cross and the Switchblade"that was made about him. Many know about that, but most don't know what happened in his church just eight years ago. In the fall of 2001, Pastor David Wilkerson, of New York City, was warned by God that a calamity was coming. For six weeks they felt an intense burden and enormous heaviness. A critical need for intercession was so profound that PastorWilkerson canceled everything on the church calendar –mission's, conferences, youth events and every guest speaker. For six weeks, there wasn't a sermon. Instead, there wasintercession for our nation with weeping and repentance. They knew something was coming and that something was bad. And that something was soon. So they prayed. And prayed …and prayed. Then Wilkerson felt God telling him something that seemed rather bizarre. He felt God telling him to make sandwiches lots of sandwiches. What were they for? Who would eat them? That part wasn't clear, but his church did what they believed God was telling them anyway. And on the 10th of September they stayed up all night making hundreds and hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.By morning they had about 2,000 sandwiches. At 8:46 a.m. thefirst plane hit the World Trade Center and Times SquareChurch was ready to feed and minister to rescue workers and victims of our nation's worst attack.