LIVING AS CHRISTIANS: Week of March 20-26, 2023, Are you preparing for the most important day of the year?, Video Transcript: How to prepare the Memorial bread. Analysis and Answers.

LIVING AS CHRISTIANS: March 20-26, 2023, Video: How to prepare the bread of Commemoration, Analysis and Answers.

Are you preparing for the most important day of the year? (15 min.): Speech and video by the service overseer. Tell how the congregation is doing with the campaign. Interview siblings who have had good experiences. Mention the program for the Memorial Bible reading (pages 8-9) and encourage everyone to prepare their hearts (Ezr 7:10). Talk about what we can do to make our guests feel welcome on that day (Ro 15:7; mwb16.03 2). Play the video How to Make the Memorial Bread.

Let's welcome our guests

On March 23, we are expected to welcome some twelve million Memorial guests. The speaker will explain that Jehovah made a wonderful gift to mankind by offering the ransom and that we can all benefit from it (Isa 11:6-9; 35:5, 6; 65:21-23; Jn 3:16). But the speaker will not be the only one who will bear witness on that special day. We too will have the opportunity to give guests a warm welcome (Ro 15:7). Let's see some suggestions to do it.

• Instead of sitting around and waiting for the show to start, welcome the guests and the inactive. Smile at them and be friendly.

• Pay special attention to your guests, but also be aware of whoever attends because they received a printed invitation during the campaign. Invite him to sit with you and share his Bible and his songbook with him.

• After the speech, find out if the person has any questions. In the event that your congregation must leave soon for the next one to enter, meet with the person to meet in a few days. You might say, “I'd like to know what you thought of the program. How could I get in touch with you?"

ILLUSTRATION

A Jehovah's Witness welcomes a guest to the Memorial; a Jehovah's Witness shares his Bible with his guests at the Memorial

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT HOW TO PREPARE THE COMMEMORATION BREAD.

It is always something that always comes to my memory, my mother's hands carefully preparing the bread for the commemoration of the death of Christ, she took it very seriously for all that it means. The night before his death Jesus took a piece of bread and said to his disciples: "This means my body" when they finished passing the bread and wine, Jesus commanded them "Keep doing this in memory of me" to this day we do the same . 

Shary, can you pass me the flour please, thank you. In reality it was a simple mixture, do you remember what follows now, the water, exactly, can we add anything else to it? No, it is very important that we make bread as it was made in Jesus' time, with wheat flour and water, nothing else. And if you can't get wheat flour.

Well, it can also be prepared with rice flour, barley, corn or another similar grain, but nothing else should be added, just flour and water and no yeast, not even salt. Do you remember what Jesus said in Luke 16:10? The person who is faithful in the least is also faithful in much. That's right and we want to be faithful to Jehovah in all things right 

After making the mixture, my mother kneaded it and meanwhile the flour jumped from top to bottom, then she let me stretch it out, then we put it on a tray that we had greased with a little oil, when the bread was ready, it didn't look like it at all. nothing we usually eat, it was a dry plain bread, almost like a cookie it broke easily so it was perfect.

We were proud to take it to the Kingdom Hall, now that I am preparing the bread for this year's commemoration, I remember with joy that those moments and when I think of what Jesus did for each one of us, I appreciate the great honor of contributing a little to the most important night of the year.

HOW TO PREPARE THE MEMORIAL BREAD

1. Put in a container 1 cup (140 G) of wheat flour, or replace it with corn flour, rice flour, barley flour, or another similar grain.

2. Add ⅓ cup (80 ml) of water.

3. Mix until the dough no longer sticks to the sides of the bowl.

4. Knead gently for 5 minutes on a floured surface.

5. Divide the dough into two equal parts.

6. Stretch it until it is about 3 millimeters (⅛ inch) thick.

7. Place on a lightly oiled tray.

8. Poke small holes with a fork.

9. Put it in an oven preheated to 230° Celsius (450° Fahrenheit).

10. Bake for 8 minutes.

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