Newly assigned officers to a Naval Air Station are quite often
"adopted" by a family. One such young officer, a Lieut
Commander, kind-of became an Uncle to the family's only 4 year old
daughter.
One Sunday, he asked her what she had learned in Sunday School. She
said she had learned all about the ten commanders, and that they were
always broke.
This same little girl was told to draw her conception of the Hebrews
flight into Egypt. She came home with a picture of an airplane, the
passengers all with halos and one person up front without one. When
asked about it, she explained, "Oh, that's Pontius, the
pilot."
The Lord's Prayer has always been easy for kids to misinterpret,
either through poor enunciators or from mumbling congregations. One
little boy, always a classic joke, said "Harold be Thy name."
Two other lesser-known prayers though are a little girl saying:
"Give us this day our jelly bread." Or the little New York boy
who petitioned God to "Lead us not into Penn Station."
After hearing the Christmas story, and singing "Silent
Night" a Sunday School Class in Sao Paulo was asked to draw what
they thought the Nativity Scene might have looked like.
One boy did a good likeness of Joseph, Mary and the infant, but off
to the side was a roly-poly figure.
The teacher, afraid that he had somehow worked Santa Claus into the
scene asked him who that was. She wasn't sure whether she was relieved
or even more worried when the boy responded, "Oh, that's Round John
Virgin."