On the Road Again…

I’ve been at the Indianapolis Puppet Festival for the last couple of days. It was a good weekend of sharing, teaching and inspiration- rubbing shoulders with people who are serving God with creative means mostly with puppets. I judged two competitions, taught three workshops, helped to close the conference with a devotional thought and prayer [...]

Read Full Post »

These are a Few of My Favorite Things..the M&M Puppeteers’ version!

There were so many good parts of our M&M Puppeteers 20 year reunion last week. Here are a few of my favorites:
the dinner and the cute M&M memorabilia
watching old videos of puppeteers in action
our awesome performance (which we didn’t video…however, five different groups came to me afterwards and said they did and would send it to [...]

Read Full Post »

M&M Puppeteers

Once upon a time, there was a team called the M&M Puppeteers. We traveled, we ministered, we competed at Puppet Festival competitions, we served in Children’s Church, local community outreach centers and even on missions trips to foreign countries. And we started all of that 20 YEARS AGO! This season, we decided to put together an M&M [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

20 Year Anniversary!

1987!
On television, it was the end of some TV shows: Dance Fever, The A Team, Remington Steele, Fraggle Rock and Welcome to Pooh Corner all went off the air in 1987. Oh well.
On the other hand, TV exec’s had some new shows to introduce in 1987: TeenAge Mutant Ninja Turtles, Colby’s Clubhouse and Ducktales were some of them.
But most notably, [...]

Read Full Post »

Lots of stuff

Here’s what I’m working on right now:
Concepts 21 Kids Club (see Square Peg Ministries tab above)- this is the last week of Superbook Olympics. We’ve been studying the book of Mark. We’re only going to finish through Chapter 5. However, we did learn a lot of Bible stories and where to find them. Most importantly, [...]

Read Full Post »

More I-Fest Stuff

I love traveling in the Midwest. I just love the wide open spaces, the farmland and the prairies. I think it’s really pretty and it’s also very soothing to me. Something about being able to see so far. Here are just a couple of shots around Bourbonnais where I-Fest was held:

                          

I noticed some very interesting church and [...]

Read Full Post »

IFest Photos

I-Fest is just fabulous- really. The chapel services were inspiring, the evening programs ranged from hilarious to moving to just plain fun. I felt like the workshops I taught, for the most part, connected with the folks attending them. Here’s what I taught:
Drama and Puppetry Together I talk about simple drama basics and terminology. Then we watch [...]

Read Full Post »

Traveling is a Mixed Bag!

Travel is fun and interesting and outrageously difficult and boring all at the same time. Like the title says: a mixed bag. Especially when traveling by air.
I am at I-Fest this week. That’s the International Festival of Puppetry and Ventriloquism, hosted by One Way Street. It’s outside Chicago- and it was a “planes, trains and automobiles” [...]

Read Full Post »