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TRANSFIGURATION
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	"Transfiguration"
	Today's selected readings: – Mark 9: 2-9
	Kid's Church talk: - • What are the types of things you are good at? (discuss) • If you were wanted to become a builder, would it help you to become a builder if you were taught how to mow lawns? (Discuss) Have them offer suggestions. • Or what about being a baker - And they taught you how to dig drains. (Discuss) • Share the story about the Eagle and the chicken. • This story is also about us as Christans. Would being a good Christian, be someone who goes round robbing banks or killing people, swearing at other people and calling them names? Of course not. (Pass out pieces of lemon) - Then give them a lolly to take away the taste. • If we are about the Jesus business of being good Christians, then the sourness of the lemon reminds us of the awful things Christians should not be doing. • The lolly reminds us of the nice things we as Christians should be doing. - Kindness, caring, helping, sharing etc. • So what do you think Christians should be like. A common chicken or a proud, powerful and magnificent eagle? • God wants you to be like the eagle and to be proud of Jesus and to be proud that you are part of Jesus' family here at Saint Thomas.
	Kids Church Activity: To make a chicken yard with chicken nests, eggs in them, chicken coop and an eagle flying overhead. Use story of the Eagle - Stress how we can be transformed into effective and powerful Christians. Powerful like an eagle.
	What you need to get ready: Shoe box lid or you could use a paper plate. Cardboard to make a chicken pen, straw for the pen, little chicken rail for them to roost on, small round foam balls for eggs in the nests, eagle and chicken cutouts, popsicle stick to affix Eagle onto, staple gun, quick setting craft glue, coloured texta's or pencils.Pieces of lemon and lollies.
	THE CHICKEN-HEARTED EAGLE A man found an eagle's egg and put it in the nest of a backyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the backyard chickens did, thinking he was a backyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air like the chickens. After all, that is how a chicken is supposed to fly, isn't it? Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird far above him in the cloudless sky. It floated in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he said to his neighbour. "That's the eagle, the king of birds," said his neighbour. "But don't give it another thought." So the eagle never gave it another thought. He died thinking he was a backyard chicken.