Fall 2012

We made grape jelly and mixed berry jam in September.

We did "Baking with Pumpkin" in October.  We baked pumpkin muffins and also learned a bit about spices.  We also did pumpkin pasties, which is a hand held pie.

November we made a "Master Baking Mix" and bagged it up for our church food pantry to give out with a list of recipes.

December we had our Christmas Party.  We made easy toffee,  pictionary style games, and gift exchange.

February 9

We made brownies!
We used the recipe that I learned in 4H back in the 70's
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup melted butter/margerine
2 eggs
1/3 cup cocoa
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup nuts, or chocolate chips or other candy ( we used M&Ms)

Mix sugar into melted margerine, add eggs, vanilla and then the dry ingredients. You can add the extra goodies in the batter or sprinkle on top. Bake for 25 minutes at 350.

We finished our study on Gladys Aylward. Gladys did many dangerous things in her life, but she always looked to the Lord for her guidance and protection. She is a very good role model for our girls.


We will finish our baking unit February 23. I've changed the lesson plans- we will finish with pizza!

January 26

We made yellow cake from scratch. Was tasty, but the church oven isn't all that great and the bottom burned.

We continued our study of Gladys Aylward. Gladys was determined to spread the good news of Jesus wherever she found herself.

November Meeting

We are only meeting one time in November. Last night was our meeting. We made pumpkin muffins, and started learning about Gladys Aylward, missionary to China.

Gladys had tremendous faith and trust that God would take care of her. She crossed Europe and Asia by train during a war, with only a Bible, passport, train tickets, and £2. Gladys demonstrated great courage leaving all she knew to follow the Lord.

Would we have that much faith and courage?

We are using Christian Missionaries to Know Lapbook during our lesson time. This will fulfull the Missionary badge requirement. Another missionary study that would work great is Faithbooking: Missionary Biographies by Fortunately For You Books.

Baking

Faith Girls Baking Lessons

Making Biscuits

We meet twice a month from 6:30-8:00.

We have a brief announcement time, & I assign work groups. Our girls range in age from 8-14. We usually have 3-4 groups of 2-3 girls. We do a baking first then the othermoms watch the oven for us while we have our Missionary lapbook lesson. After that the goodies are done baking and that is the snack, with leftovers to take home.


I've encouraged the girls to pick a skill at home to work on, and then bring the project to a meeting to share about it, similar to 4H demonstrations. This builds self confidence in Public Speaking as well, hhhmmmm, I'll have to see what the requirements are for Public Speaking. So far only my daughters and the pastor's daughter are doing any work at home.
We are reading the NT, and Anna is memorizing 1Cor 13. So we don't have anything to show and tell about.