Happy Birthday, Jesus

Our final Christmas event for the kids in our ministry was the “Happy Birthday, Jesus” party. We played Christmas games, acted out the Christmas story complete with costumes, had a surprise visit from Vicki the puppet; aka, my daughter Amanda, passed out treat bags, sang Christmas carols, ate cupcakes and sang “Happy Birthday.” See how Miss [...]

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Turkey Gobble

Today we held a Thanksgiving “Turkey Gobble” in our ministry apartment. Our final count was 61 kids and about 15 volunteers in a two bedroom apartment. And we only own 45 chairs…you can imagine what eating a Thanksgiving meal in that crowd was like! Anyway, we had a great day. Besides many of our regular [...]

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We’re No Dummies!

JUST FOR FUN!

The truth really is that the greatest number of people unreached for Christ world-wide are kids.
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The “New” M&M Puppeteers

Tonight was our second week of practice. You can tell these are little girls! We have six 5th and 6th graders and one 9th grader (don’t ask!) Here are a couple of photos from the first practice. Seasoned puppeteers- you can see we made “eyeballs” for practice. We’ve used them, as well as real puppets both weeks- and Julie [...]

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Compassion In Action Day

Over 6,ooo volunteers from area churches are serving throughout Atlanta in their local communities this weekend. The end result will be cleaned up yards of senior citizens, food pantries and clothes closets organized and stocked, public school teachers blessed with thank-you gifts, visits made to nursing homes and donated furniture will be delivered to families in need.
In [...]

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Why We Do What We Do

It used to be that if we didn’t reach kids by high school, it was too late. Then junior high and now elementary. If we don’t reach these kids at 5,6,7,8 years old- we will lose an entire generation!
  -Josh McDowell 

We see it every week at Kids Club (grades 1-5) and Mealtime (grades 6-8). We [...]

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A Few Random Pix/Vids from this week…

Lydia loves nature: dogs, leaves, birds, bugs and exploring. We spied this beautiful monarch butterfly in the backyard. Lydia was a little leery of holding the butterfly, so we put it on her foot.  I haven’t seen anything much more adorable than that little baby foot adorned by God’s colorful creation!

Amanda had a Survivor party, to [...]

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Back to School!

Friday was our first regular ministry afternoon of the new school year. We had a wonderful time. There was excitement and expectancy in the air. The kids were cooperative. We had put in a couple of days of cleaning, organizing and preparing…and it was well worth it!
This school year we decided to to our best [...]

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School’s In!

The county in which we do our weekly ministry went back to school last week. We usually begin our Homework Help and Tutoring a couple of weeks into the school year so the kids are ready for our help. Today we had our annual Open House to begin signing up kids for the program. Here’s [...]

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On the Road Again!

Whew, I just got back from Mobile, AL. I was teaching and working at a one-day puppetry event, Summerfest, which One Way Street hosts during the summer only (good name!) For those of you who know the puppet festival format, there are a few differences. Like I said, it’s Saturday only instead of Friday night [...]

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