Baking and Breaking Bread

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

                

-Robert Browning

This week's homemaking session: Breads and Spreads. The kitchen was filled to the brim with bakers. Emma supplied everyone with ingredients and recipes for cornbread, pretzels, cheesy garlic bread, and any other carbohydrate-filled dream our hearts desired. Compensating for a portion of the calorie intake, we shook up some cream into butter. Courtnay also whipped up a sweet and delicious lemon curd. There was more than enough to go around at dinner!

The bustling kitchen during our "Breads & Spreads" homemaking session

Top Left: Courtnay (Staff) and Allie (Wheaton) present their completed loaf of bread. Top Right: Mieke (Calvin) and Sylvia (Calvin) present their finished batch of butter. Bottom Left: Tyler (Messiah) and Kris (Messiah) with their cheesy garlic bread fresh out of the oven. Bottom Right: Betsy (Messiah) with her finished cornbread, perfect to accompany our chili at dinner.

We had Mick Duncan back this week for the second half of Sustainable Communitiy Development. Mick focused more on application and "take home strategies" for students as they return to their school and home communities in December. Students found his message convicting and empowering. 

Matt Hui (Messiah, '13) described his experience as follows:

“Mick was an inspiring professor. His stories challenged, but also encouraged, me in my walk with God. He taught me that sustainable community development is a lifestyle that anyone can and should participate in. After taking his class, I am more aware of Jesus' heart for the poor and inclined to come alongside those who need love most.”