Online Info Session for Bread Starters
Learn how to be a “Bread Starter” to help make Bread Day happen at your local meeting and build intergenerational relationships through baking bread!
Bread Day is back for round 2 this year on March 4th, and we want to know who is feeling the nudge to step into Bread Day leadership in their local meetings. This session might be right for you if:
You are listening to what yeasts are bubbling in your meeting around fostering intergenerational relationships
You're hungry for more hands-on spiritual learning
You carry a concern for centering youth and deeper spiritual connection in your meeting
You are excited about sharing bread-baking as a spiritual practice with others
You're not able to attend the in person training / you'd prefer something shorter and online
Additionally, there will be an in person training hosted at Providence Friends Meeting on Saturday, February 4th from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., the details for which can be found here.
What’s up with all the bread metaphors?
When you bake any kind of bread, you need to add something alive to the dough to get it to rise and transform the mass of flour and water into something delicious and nutritious. With lots of kinds of bread, you add yeast. A spoonful of yeast contains thousands of microscopic live organisms that eat up the sugars from the flour in your dough and release gas that makes the dough grow bigger and rise up in the bowl. When you make sourdough bread, instead of adding yeast, you add a bit of something called a starter, which is a gloopy stinky mixture of flour and water and little organisms that make it alive, and turn the rest of the dough alive and make it grow once it’s mixed in. In a way, anyone who follows a leading to transform their community is being like sourdough starter, or like yeast.
Watch this video about what Bread Day is all about
What do you mean by “Bread Starters”?
We are (somewhat jokingly) calling the local leaders who make Bread Day happen "Bread Starters" as a way to connect the life of the Spirit within us to the life of sourdough starter or yeast within bread. Bread Starters will be the people who plan and host each local Bread Day gathering at Quaker meetings all over New England. If you are considering serving in this role, or you're unsure if it's right for you, this is a good opportunity to find out more and discern if you'd like to do this work this year.
What will we DO at this info session?
Connect to the central spiritual purpose of Bread Day and reflect on how this might resonate in each of our local meetings
Brainstorm a variety of ways we can foster authentic relationships between youth and adults and across age differences during Bread Day
Learn some best practices for building intergenerational relationships and centering youth and families
Receive resources to help with the logistics of community-building and baking bread with a group, especially with kids
Answer your questions about how to be Bread Starters in your meetings!