Jana a král rybář/ Jane and the Fisher King... err, the kingfisher

The following link leads to a series of photographs of Jana, our minister's wife. Here is a wee story to go with it:

At the weekend, a friend of ours (a member of your prayer group) was christened in the brook near the Czech A Rocha centre in the beautiful nature of the NE of the Czech Republic.
http://www.arocha.org/cz-en/welcome.html
The senior minister who administered the sacrament is also an ornithologist and the centre specialises in birdwatching.
Our newly-born sister in Christ used to help out there, so no wonder one of her christening gifts was a kingfisher that they caught the very morning.

During the celebration which followed, Jana asked the pastor if it would be possible for her to have a go at holding a bird...
"Sometime in future, you know,
perhaps next time when we're here..."

Within 15 minutes she was called out and handed a kingfisher.
The second one they caught that day.

http://picasaweb.google.com/onetrickpony.m/JanaAKrLRyb#

The various young girls are members of our prayer group;
the long-haired young man is another conservationist from the centre (that's why he's not afraid of the bird);
the man in the blue stripy sweatshirt is our minister, Marek Šrámek
(Šimon stayed indoors - after all he's just two months and wouldn't remember much of it)