Gribble the Gray
Gribble is a curious little alien who loves learning about Earth and collecting shiny rocks from every planet he visits. He’s great at solving puzzles and always has a helpful gadget in his backpack.
“Across the stars and under every moonbeam, friendship knows no species.”
— Santiago Clemens · AL-8 · Daycare Specialist
Not every truth needs to arrive all at once, and not every seeker is grown. This corner of the Church is for younger members and the families raising them — the same wonder the rest of the site is built on, told at a pace and in language that meets a child where they are.
Say Hello to the Cool Club!
Say “Heaven’s blessings upon you” to Gribble the Gray, Mantie, and Zorbus!
The Cool Club is a secret team of three best alien friends who travel the galaxy to learn, laugh, and help others. They each bring their own special powers: Gribble’s brains, Mantie’s calm, and Zorbus’s wild imagination. Together, they solve cosmic mysteries, protect kindness, and make every day feel like an adventure.
Their clubhouse? A shape-shifting spaceship called The Comet Clipper, complete with a snack dispenser, a starlight disco ball, and a friendship oath carved in moonstone.
Mantie
Mantie is a gentle mantis-like alien who enjoys gardening and teaching space yoga to anyone who will try. She speaks in musical hums and can calm even the grumpiest space creature.
Zorbus
Zorbus is the goofy inventor of the bunch, always making silly machines that beep, bounce, and sometimes even fly. He loves making his friends laugh with his wiggly dance moves and bubble-blaster jokes. He has chameleon DNA, too, so sometimes his skin is orange or green as he blends into his surroundings!
Color the Cosmos
Explore sacred scrolls, alien friends, and cosmic landscapes in the Church's own activity book — made to be printed, colored, and kept.
The Kidz Corner Activity Book (PDF) →Recommended for ages 4–11.
Khelt Varo’s Ocean Adventure
Khelt Varo came all the way from Tau Ceti to watch the gray whales swim south, and she brought a notebook. Now she has brought a coloring book. Whales, dolphins, a beluga, a sea otter, a seal, and one very polite visitor in a saucer — every marine mammal she met on her seven days, with activities, mazes, and the facts she wrote down about each one.
Khelt Varo’s Ocean Adventure (PDF) →US Letter, printable. Recommended for ages 4–11.
The Cosmic Adventures of the Alien Buddies
Three missions from the Cool Club’s own log. Each one is something you can actually go outside and do.
The Hidden Glow Rock
One evening near a quiet hill, Gribble the Gray found a rock that hummed when it was alone. He thinks it’s part of an ancient alien message buried beneath Earth’s soil.
Your Task- Go outside and find your own Glow Rock.
- Listen. What sound does it make in your hand?
- Draw it and give it a name. Then whisper a wish into it.
The Meditation Maze
Mantie once walked a spiral of leaves for three hours to solve a math riddle about stars. She said the answer “sounded like a bell made of light.”
Your Task- Make a tiny spiral with twigs, shells, or noodles.
- Walk your finger slowly along the path while breathing.
- Did you feel a thought you didn’t expect?
The Cairn of Zorbus
Zorbus built a tower of 17 stones without it falling. When he finished, he shouted, “I am balanced, therefore I am weird!”
Your Task- Try stacking random stuff: pebbles, buttons, snacks…
- See how tall you can make it. Give your tower a name.
- Knock it over. Laugh. Rebuild it with a new idea.
Mission Log 004
The Mending
Spacetime keeps wearing thin. Every so often a little tear opens in it, and each tear is a tiny black hole, swallowing the starlight around it. They are not dangerous and they are not anybody's fault — spacetime is very old and very big, and old big things come apart a little at the edges. Gribble, Mantie and Zorbus go out and mend them, and they could use the help.
How to play: touch a tear to mend it. Each one has a ring closing in on it — touch it when the ring turns green and the mend is clean: the black hole closes, and the starlight it swallowed comes home. Take as long as you like. Nobody can lose this game.
The Church records that spacetime has been mended by children more times than by anybody else, and that nobody has ever finished.
Mission Log 005
Zorbus and the Starlight Disco
Tonight the Comet Clipper is throwing the Starlight Disco, and everybody in the galaxy is invited. Zorbus, who loves jumping more than almost anything (except snacks, and his banjo), is delivering the invitations: over the Moonflower Meadows, down through the Glow Rock Caves, across the Bouncy Moon, and all the way to the Grumbler’s saucer. Some of the guests are grumpy when he finds them. That’s all right. A friendly boop on the head and an invitation cheer anybody up. Well, almost anybody.
How to play: walk with ← and →, jump with Space or ↑ (hold it to jump higher), and hold X to run. Jump on a grump to boop it and give it its invitation, and bump the blocks with eyes from underneath. A Hover-Sandwich makes Zorbus big, a Bubble Blaster lets him blow bubbles with X, and a Disco Sparkle makes him dance straight through anything. On a phone or tablet, use the buttons on the screen; a game controller works too. Little hands is for the youngest players: nothing can hurt Zorbus, a tap is a full jump, and a bubble carries him over every gap.
Zorbusand the Starlight Disco
Everyone’s invited!
Tonight is the Starlight Disco, and everyone in the galaxy is invited!
Zorbus is delivering the invitations. Some of the guests are a bit grumpy, but a friendly boop on the head cheers them right up.
The very last invitation is for the Grumbler, the grumpiest creature in the galaxy. Nobody ever visits him.
World 1 · Moonflower Meadows
World 2 · The Glow Rock Caves
World 3 · The Bouncy Moon
World 4 · The Grumbler’s Saucer
Gribble
Hi, it’s Gribble! Hold the jump button down to jump higher. And bump the blocks with eyes from underneath!
Hi, it’s Gribble! Tap the jump button to jump. And bump the blocks with eyes from underneath!
Grumps aren’t bad, just grumpy. Jump on one to boop it, and it gets its invitation to the disco!
Grumps aren’t bad, just grumpy. Bump into one, and it gets its invitation to the disco!
Some tubes sparkle on top. Stand on one and press down to see where it goes.
Some tubes sparkle on top. Stand on one for a moment to see where it goes.
Big Zorbus can break crystal blocks with his head. Found a Bubble Blaster? Press the run button to blow bubbles!
Big Zorbus can break crystal blocks with his head. Bump one from underneath!
Boop a Rolypoly and it curls into a ball. Kick it, and everyone it rolls into gets an invitation too!
We’re on the Moon! There’s less gravity here, so every jump floats.
This is the Grumbler’s saucer. Keep out of the goo, and tiptoe past the sleepy rocks on the ceiling!
The Grumbler is just ahead. Give him three boops. I don’t think he’s mean, you know. I think he’s lonely.
The Grumbler sat down with a great big grumpy thump.
Then Gribble and Mantie came down in the Comet Clipper, and Mantie hummed a little tune, the kind that calms even the grumpiest space creature.
“Nobody ever invites me to the disco,” said the Grumbler, very quietly.
So Zorbus did.
And that night, at the Starlight Disco, everybody danced.
The Church records that the Grumbler has been invited to every disco since, and has danced at all of them.