What's In My Teapot?

We made it! We fed the young people and we fed ourselves and we had enough for everyone (with leftovers!) and we chatted our way through the cleanup so that it took way longer than it should have and we returned to our respective homes thankful that Bible-school comes only once a year!!! How's that for a success story on feeding the multitude? Just in case you wish to know more (and since I promised details!) here are a few things for the record... We served right around 95 people (10 were children and the rest youth through adult.)  Keep in mind, though, that a group of young people never eat as much as you think they should during Bible-school, with their well-fed and under-active lifestyle, so if you were preparing this menu for a crew of young people who had just put in a hard days work, you may want to figure accordingly!!! Enchiladas: we made 101 and had several pans leftover (exact amount unknown) but I would still make about that many again if I was aiming to f...

If there is one word that sums up what we want to give our young people this week, I think we could say it is nourishment . We want to give them solid, Kingdom-based teaching, opportunities to form good relationship and interact with other youth, and plenty of food at our tables. If we can do all of these things, we will have nourished the soul, the emotions, and the body respectively, and in turn should be looking at a healthy bunch of young people when they stand up to sing on Sunday morning! As you already know if you read my other two Bible-school-related posts this week, The Beginning and The Dynamics , I am on the physical food side in the nourishment department, and my kitchen can prove it! When I signed up for providing supper for the Bible-school students on Thursday evening, I already had in mind that I would like to do a repeat of the meal I did last year! It may not sound very creative to do the same thing twice, but sometimes, trying to figure out a menu for a cr...