Find the sheep

St Peter’s Presbyterian Church wants Tauranga Moana children to enter The Great Christmas Sheep Hunt competition.

This year Tauranga's St Peter's Presbyterian Church is offering an opportunity to the children and families of Tauranga Moana to interact with the Christmas story in a new way.

Organised by the church, The Great Christmas Sheep Hunt is asking children to help the Christmas story's shepherds to find their sheep so they can go and visit baby Jesus.

'There is a shepherd searching for his sheep in Downtown Tauranga, and there are several soft toy sheep hiding in the city centre's shop windows – and St Peter's Presbyterian Church needs your to help find them,” says pastor Cate Burton.

She says the Christmas tale tells the story of the birth of Jesus; about everyday people who experience something extraordinary.

'There is an angel with a message about a manger, a handful of shepherds and some other guys with presents.

'But it's also a story set in the Middle East two millennia ago amidst a time of social, political and religious turbulence. And it's a story about a person who brings peace – something our world desperately needs.”

And this Christmas Tauranga's children can enter the sheep-hunting competition.

Information sheets and entry forms are online at www.stpeters.org.nz/youth--kids

Or collect an entry form from St Peters in the City, 130 Spring St.

Prizes will be drawn at the Children's Christmas Eve service, starting 6pm on Thursday, December 24 at St Peters St Peters in the City. Winners will be given a sheep to keep.

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