Our Daily Bread

The combined Sunday School classes continue to study the Lord’s Prayer. Our segment for Sunday, June 28 was “give us this day our daily bread”. We learned that this means we are asking only for our meals today and not to worry about tomorrow.

Jim Smith had gone to some of the farm fields in the area and gathered some plants for us to study. We talked about the bread and grains in Bible times. We had wheat, oats, and rye plants to study. We talked about these seeds and could handle and feel them. We had a chance to taste and chew on wheat seeds.

We then moved on to making bread. We found that yeast is a plant that needs to be warm to grow and needs sugar to feed on. They saw the yeast develop and could smell it. Salt, butter, egg, and flour were added. Then it was turned out on a board and kneaded. As it was rolled out, cinnamon sugar was sprinkled on top and then the dough was rolled up. They began to ask, “Do we get to eat these?” Of course it was explained that the rolls in the pan had to be kept warm and let grow for a while, then baked. There were samples of rolls baked earlier however, so bread making came to a happy end.

The children were all so well behaved. It was a fun morning.
- Submitted by Eleanor Smith; photos by Sue Smith