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Luksong tinik
self-centered
Filipino kids love to play games just like you.
Here’s a fun outside game that you can play Attitude
with you and at least two friends. In English,
it is called “Jumping Over the Thorns.” Mira Meefirst:
You need to know that in Tagalog... I noticed that you bow your head

Lukso means “jump.” and pray before eating your
lunch at school. Aren’t you
Tinik means “thorns.”
worried about what the other
Taya means the person or group of people who are kids will think of you?
“it” in the game.

Divide the players into two teams. Each team
selects a naynay (mother), usually the person who
can jump the highest.

The taya (it) are two players who sit on the ground OR
facing each other. The taya stack their hands and
feet on top of each other, forming tinik (thorns). Outreach Otto:
One at a time, players from the opposing Mira, in the Bible, Paul said
team attempt to jump over them without to the Thessalonians,
touching the hurdle. “ ...we speak, not to please

If a player fails to do this, man, but to please God
the group’s naynay can who tests our hearts.”*
step in and successfully
jump over the hurdle I believe I please God
in order to save them. when I thank him for my
food.

*1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV
Christ-centered
oops!

Aunt Kim liked working with kids. Gratitude
She desired to speak Tagalog so
she could teach Filipino kids Max is on the move again!
about about the love of Jesus. But
sometimes, she made mistakes Can you guess where Max
when she tried to teach in her new will travel next?

language. Here are some clues:
One time, she was trying to explain to the children that • 7,000 miles of coastlines on
they could ask Jesus into their hearts. Before she knew the Pacific Ocean and
Caribbean Sea.
it, all the kids were laughing! Kim had mixed up the
word for heart, puso, with the word for cat, pusa. Oops! • The Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza are one
of the seven wonders of the world.
When she realized her mistake, Kim explained what she
was trying to say. • The world’s smallest volcano (43 feet) is
located here.
The children smiled when they understood how much
Jesus loves them. Now they know that they can ask • Quesadillas, molletes, and tortas are eaten.
Jesus into their hearts!