In 1972 during a prayer meeting in El Paso, Texas, people read Jesus' words "When you give a lunch or a dinner, or when you have a party, invite the poor." The prayer meeting decided that on Christmas day that year they would give a Christmas lunch to the poor people who lived and worked in the dump in Juarez, just across the border in Mexico. The poor people in the dump used to separate the rubbish into various types, cans, bottles, cardboard etc and then sell it to a co-op which would in turn sell it on. The prayer group prepared food for 125 people on Christmas Day. But 350 people turned up. The prayer group leaders explained to the poor people that there was not enough food for everyone but they would share what they had. All 350 had enough food, the dump people even took some food home and then came back to take more home, then returned and took more home again. There was still so much food left over that it was taken to three orphanages. The miracle of the loaves and fish was repeated in the dump in Juarez, Mexico in 1972.