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My favorite part of the ekalesia was when the ministry preformed silent night. It was my favorite beacause well, I'm in praise and worship, so I got to preform. My second favorite part is the time Kahu Kanaloa was talking about the geese and the observation he made. I liked it because it was really, well, deep. It involves very critical thinking to process it.

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Today in ekalesia I thought it was cool how you can relate geese to humans and how they don't understand us, but they understand other geese. It is just like how sometimes we don't understand God but when Jesus came, we knew what he was trying to say.

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Today in ekalasia the question that stood out to me was why was Jesus born as a child? Our kahu told us a story about a man who never really believed in Christ. In this story the man stayed home while the family went to church. When he looked outside he saw a flock of geese that were stuck in the snow. He thought of many ideas and could not get them in the barn. So he grabbed one of his own geese and let him out and the other geese followed the geese in the barn. The man now realized that our Christ cares for everything and won't give up until he helps someone or something.

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At the Christmas Ekalesia,I liked the story of the family, who lived in the farm. The reason why I liked the story was because he realized that the reason that God sent his son was to guide us. The story goes like this the family had 3 children and the mother taught to believe in God. The father didn't believe that God would send his son as a baby on earth. The children and mother went to the church but the father did not. After they left he heard a sound and it kept on going. He sensed that something was wrong and he put on his coat on, he went outside. He saw a flock of geese and he kept on trying things to get them inside the farm, they would not come in. He thought maybe if I get one of my geese in the farm the flock might follow him inside the farm, after being outside four a couple secs and they did. He was proud of himself.

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At Ekalesia today I thought it was very touching. I thought it was touching because when Kahu Kaunaloa shared the story it touched me. The story was about a man who did not believe in God and in Jesus and the strength of Jesus over came the man and he gave his first prayer. I thought this story was an amazing story. Within this story I learned that the strength of Gods love and hope will always overcome. Something that I found touching was the song " Mary Did You Know". I thought this was touching because when Kahu Kaunaloa sang the song I got chicken skin. I think that this was a great ekalesia, and it put us in the mood of Christmas.

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Today in Ekalesia my favorite part was when Kahu Kaunaloa was sharing the story of the man and how he didn't believe in God. It made me think that without a leader the geese would be lost. Just like us without God we would be lost and confused. I think that is why God sent Jesus down to the earth, so that he could be the example. I also think he was sent here because without a leader to show us what to do to choose the right path we would all choose the wrong path. So I think that now I can always be thankful that God sent someone to show us the right path. I also think that that was the mana'o nui because we sometimes don't realize that without God we wouldn't be here.

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At Ekalasia I realized the simple things that shows us why Jeasus came to earth and what he did. Something as simple as one goose leading a bunch of geese who are confused and not safe, shows what Jesus did. The one goose represents Jesus and the bunch of geese are the people that are on earth. Jesus came to the world to lead the people here who were and are confused or lost to the right path. The right path could be loving one another or doing better actions. He also showed an example of loving and forgiving others. This shows how even the simplest things can tell a great story.

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A thought I have about Christmas ekalasia was that many small things can be really important if you look at it with a different perspective! I had this thought because when Kahu kanaloa told us the story of the guy who got one goose to help the other geese get in the barn the guy didn't just say to himself wow I'm so awesome and smart he took that life lesson as a message of why Jesus was here on earth! This was pretty cool because it proved that the little things in life can make a difference and that when the guy found out Jesus was sent to earth to help us he could have went around and helped others. We can all take back from this and dig deeper into the small things that we come across in life! I enjoyed our Christmas ekalasia it mad me think in a different way!

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At the Christmas Ekalesia, I liked Kahu's story about the family on the farm. For how he compared the story to us. It was a really good story because the geese that he let out of the barn. It flew right back in. Kind of like us who want to be saved only was put out here as a test. The goose who was let out came to guide us into safety. That goose represented Jesus and had a really deep meaning. Jesus died on the cross to save us. The goose was thrown out there to lead us. The geese followed the goose because they knew that the goose knew what it was doing. I also liked the song "Mary Did You Know?" I have heard that song before recently only I don't know where. It was a really good song because how it showed all the great things that Jesus did when he was on earth. How he made the blind see, healed the sick, raised the dead and made the lame walk. He did great things and that song recapped some of it, but not nearly all of it.

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This morning at ekalasia we talked about Christmas, we read scriptures about the birth of Jesus and why the Lord would send Jesus down to earth. I had never asked myself why God sent down Jesus because I knew it was to save us but I didn't realize why he didn't just save us from the heavens. But today I learned that because the people living here at the time were afraid and confused, so God needed to send a human down to earth for us to follow God. Just like in the story it worked, and now many people all over the world have faith and believe in God and Jesus Christ as their savior. Not only do more people believe but they will also be saved and be able to go to heaven.

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My favorite thought about Ekalesia is the story our Kahu said. Thr story is cool because I just make sense when the humans are the wild geese in the cold and God is the person. God is trying to lead us to heaven which is the barn. But when the person tried to help the geese get to the barn they never listened. When the persons best geese flew to the wild geese, it came back and all the other geese followed. This means that Jesus came to earth to help us get to heaven. Still, some of the geese can stay there in the cold. It can also teach us about free will, the geese can choose not to go to the barn.

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When I walked through the door at ekalasia I felt the Christmas mood inside of me. I felt like it was Christmas already with the presentation on the screen. In ekalasia we got told a amazing story about Jesus. A guy didn't believe in God. One day a bunch of wild goose got caught up in a storm and trapped. So the guy wanted to help. So he got his best goose from his barn and flew him with the wild geese. Then the guys goose lead the wild geese in the barn. He then belived in God. He was like the best goose and everybody followed him. That was one of the best stories

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A thought that I had in Ekalesia is when we learned three songs together that was about to how it is fun to have joy and happiness. Also when Kahu kaunaloa shared a story with us that a mean didn't believe in God and Jesus. So one cold windy night he saw a bunch of geese that needed help. So the man didn't believe in Jesus and God but the strength of Jesus over took the man for his first prayer so that touched me and thought that was cool

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Today at ekalesia I liked when he told us the story about the man and the goose. I liked it because after all that happened he finally prayed for the first time . I also liked it when we sang joy to the world because we got to clap with it . I also liked when he sang Mary Did You Know because it told us about all the things that Jesuse did . I also liked it when praise and worship preformed because I thought the motions really matched the song.

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Our Christmas ekalesia was fun because I like the songs that we sang. My favorite song was silent night because it's catchy to me and I also like joy to the world. I liked the story about the geese and how the man thought of ways to get the gees in because there was a blizzard and the geese was flying around and he was trying to get them in his barn. I liked it because the guy persevered and thought of different ways to get them in the barn. The last thing that I liked was the song Mary did you know. I think the song was weird because didn't Mary know that the baby could do that from the Angel?

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The joy and message of God and Jesus is so strong. When the man was not a believer in God on Christmas Eve he was able to change. This show's people evolution. When the goose showed the way, to me it showed kokua and trust. The man helped the goose by letting his best goose into the wild and wanted a wild animal to stay warm. He had sympathy for the animals. By helping the goose he found the message he was looking for.

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This morning in Ekalasia learned a joy to the world song. The joy to the world song was about having joy. Also it was about how much joy you have in your body and to dance to let it out. One my favorite part was when he shared that story about the flock of geese and how they were like us and it is hard to make us follow other people. Just like the goose. They were scared until a different goose came and led them in so they could be warm and not suffer out in the blizzered. When Kahu Kaunaloa shared that song. Called Mary Did You Know. I really understand because she never know that her son is a king or that he can walk on wate.

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A thought that I had at this morning's ekalesia was how you can learn from anything. In the little story that Kahu Kaunaloa told us, it was about a father who learned about Jesus and God by a flock of geese. In the story, there was a blizzard and a flock of geese was flying. It couldn't find it's direction because it was snowing hard. The man went outside and thought Hmmm, my barn is warm, why don't I try and get them in there. So he opened the barn and tried to get them in. They didn't go in. So he tried making a trail of bread leading to the barn. But they still didn't go in. He tried to shoo them in, but they still didn't. He had geese in his barn though. So he took his goose out and the goose flew out and went back in. The flock followed. Jesus was like the geese in the barn helping us, confused geese in a storm.

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Today in ekalesia we had a story that Kahu told us. It was about a couple with three children. On Christmas Eve the women asked her husband if he wanted to go to the Christmas celebration with there three kids but he said no because he didn't believe. Then a flock of geese came and flew into the window. The man wanted to help but didn't know how. He tried three times and the third time worked. He started to believe and got down and his knee's and said his first prayer.

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A thought that I had in Christmas Ekalesia was that I had never ever thought about why God sent Jesus as a baby. But as I listened to Kahu's story I realized that I knew the answer all along. He sent him here because we only listen to our own kind. I also understand now that it was kind of like a test. To see if the man could understand the same way as I did and the geese did. Jesus wanted everyone to understand the power of God and how we would be rescued by God. And to be able to do that he needed to come down as one of us. He and God knew that! The song Mary, Did You Know really touched me because I always wondered every time she kissed Jesus, everytime she touched him did she know how awesome he would become. I also thought maybe she thought he was already awesome from the day he was born.

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So for our Christmas Ekalesiai had thoughts about the story that kahu kaunaloa shared. I thought about it because it shows you that people can change. It might take a while for the to notice. But when they have an epiphany, they really get it. For example the geese story.

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My highlight from the Christmas ekalasia was when we were listening to the story with the geese. The thing was I got confused in the middle because, first he was talking about Jesus, but then he was talking about geese! I FINALLY got the reason for that story when he said "I wish I was a goose". I finally got it! He was comparing us to geese and God to the guy! When he used his other goose kahu said it was his most pride possession, that was like Jesus communicating to us!