Puppet shows and prayer
We have a puppet show that our home does as an outreach ministry. My brother helped us to make it. We do the show at various schools as a way to raise funds, and what’s better, we pray with the kids after each show. It’s a good way to witness, and the kids really appreciate it.
Early yesterday morning we headed out to a nice private school to do our show. Before starting each show we always ask the school’s coordinator or principal if we can pray with the kids, so we did again this time. The lady we asked–who was an art teacher–said we couldn’t even though she thought it would be lovely. She told us the school principal wouldn’t like it.
As it turned out, the kids (coming from a higher class upbringing) were one of the worst crowds we ever performed for. For me it only reinforced the argument that taking prayer, God, and the Bible out of schools is destroying the very foundation of education as a whole.
Today we went there again for our second show, and as before, we asked again if we could pray with the children before beginning. The school coordinator told us, "You not only can, but you must!" If only you could have seen the difference between yesterday’s crowd and todays! The children behaved and participated all throughout the show and enjoyed it all the more. When saying goodbye to the school principal, she asked if we had anything to do with some kids tapes she’d purchased from someone about 12 years ago. She mentioned a song about "the dancing trees". It’s amazing how far our material has gone and how we never know when we’ll all of a sudden bump into someone who was touched by our sample or our witness, small though it may have been, sometime through the many years.
