Things Children Say

Before I forget these, I'm going to write them down.

Me (teaching Sunday School): Our worship service is divided into two parts, like two halves- but put together they make a whole. Does anyone know anything like that, that has two parts that you put together to make a whole?
Josh(having watched a show about splitting atoms): I know- An atom.
Me: OK- what else?
Ellery(hearing Atom and thinking Adam): Adam and Eve were the first people on the earth.
Me: Well, that's true- they were the first two people and together they made the first family. Can you all think of anything else?
Margy(not to be outdone): I know who the first people on earth were- they were the Indians. I am reading a book about them.
George(said with a 6 year old accent): No, the first people on earth were the Austro-pith-e-cus.
Me: Okay- how about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? You put the two parts together to make one sandwich. That's how it is with our church service.

I should have stopped then.

On a different day, when I was teaching Children's church:
Me (reading a story about Jesus' last night- the last supper, garden of Gethsemane, arrest): And so, after they ate their dinner, Jesus and his disciples went to an olive garden, and there he prayed.
Hannah: An Olive Garden? I love eating there!
Me: what?
Another savvy adult: Not an Olive Garden restaraunt, a garden grove where they grow olive trees.
Me (trying not to laugh): OOOhh. Yes, that's right- a garden with olive trees.

Lastly, my favorite story of Burke and communion
Burke goes to communion with his friend Peter, and Peter's mom. Burke takes the bread and the wine, but Peter only takes the bread. The wine is administered with these words," The blood of Christ, the cup of salvation." Upon noticing that Peter has not taken the wine, Burke says quite loudly, "I like mine with a little salvation, you should try it." Peter's mom, the priest and chalice bearer all try hard not to completely lose it at the altar.