Puppets and the Gospel

Last weekend I did a puppet Gospel magic show!!! This was before an audience of over 100 Indian children who are part of the Church of South India. They were doing a holiday club called Kingdom of the Son. The theme was based on the jungle and wildanimals featured large in the decor and in the singing!

So in keeping to the theme I introduced my Daisy Duck, a card picking mechanical duck sometime marketed as Dippy Duck, Rocky Raccoon and a monkey arm puppet.

After a lot of playing around with a Lexicon pack of cards, I then introduce Daisy Duck by saying she is going to pick a card with the letter on it chosen by a member of the audience. Daisy then pulls out a card which has all the letters of the alphabet on it!!!

After the laughter died down I then got Daisy to read my mind and think of a word. She then spelt out the word SIN. I then introduced my monkey who went onto be very naughty and disobedient in helping me to make a large hanky by magic from three little ones ( I use a changebag with this routine). His efforts result in disaster because he does not follow my instructions. This illustrated the nature of sin. Sin is when we think we know best how to live our lives and ignore the instructions of our maker.

Finally I introduced Rocky Raccoon who demonstrated to us what God did to overcome sin. At the end of my routine with Rocky I have him placed on a table a long way from me and I highlight the gap between us. When Rocky fails to cross the gap by himself by jumping into my arms, I then cross the gap myself to pick up Rocky and give him a big cuddle. I point out that this is what God did for us. He crossed the gap caused by our sin in the person of Jesus with the express purpose of showing us how much he loves us.

I closed the show by making a balloon camel and offering him as a gift to a child explaining that God offers us the gift of forgiveness and friendship through Jesus. All we need to do to recieve it is to say thank you and take it.

The kids were great fun and there was a real buzz in the church. I just loved entertaining and teaching these kids.

Blessings