No, it’s not a joke.
I’ll take it one step further. The church doesn’t provide the bread they use for sacrament either. One of the boys is tasked with bringing the bread each week. Out of their family’s own pocket.
Now some will argue, “what’s the big deal”? Well, if the family is scraping the barrel, every dime and every slice matters to that family, that’s the “big deal”.
How’s that for “cutting expenses”?
I wonder how that $4B mall in SLC is coming along. That’s worth a couple of billion loaves of bread.