When Sunday School students and teachers at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Madison, Wisconsin, heard that the theme for Annual Meeting 2007 would be "What does it take to be a healer?" they eagerly took on the challenge. First they decided to study the Beatitudes from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:1–12) from the standpoint of how the Beatitudes that Jesus taught relate to healing.
As a result to their study, the kids then created a colorful, wall-sized mural displaying the words of the Beatitudes along with students' accounts of their own healing work.
One student wrote that the Beatitude "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God" (Matt. 5:9), helped her stop hating a classmate and how that led to their becoming friends. Another student told how the Beatitude "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" (Matt. 5:8) showed her that God saw her pet rat as perfect. She prayed about this idea, and her rat, who had not been well, got better.
