Ralph and Rosaline - The story of the puppets
Meet Ralph, male puppet with green shirt and Rosaline, girl puppet, and Granda (took a lot of time to think of that name!!) Last week was very exciting for me as I have had the idea of using puppets in Thailand for a very long time!! This is the rather amazing story of how it has all come about. Almost four years ago aah!!!! I went to Italy on a short term trip, for evanagelism they used puppets. When I was in Thailand last time I thought I think this type of evangelism would work here not only with kids but also with teenagers and students. So when I realised I had to organise an evangelistic event in October - straight away I thought puppets!!! But number one I had no puppets number two I have never used a puppet in my life before!!! And then I got sick!!! One night when I was sick I very randomly asked another associate if he knew of anyone who had used puppets before in Thailand. He looked at me a bit strangely and said Why? I explained. His reply was "I've got a bag of puppets under my bed" My response was "What!!??Why?!" He had been at a Church a few months before he was walking out of the building with the pastor and they noticed that someone had thrown the puppets on the rubbish heap. The pastor was very annoyed so Steve offered to take the puppets. So problem number one solved I now had puppets. After more conversation regarding using puppets found out that he had attended a puppet course. Problem number 2 solved - I invited him to come and train two Thai students and myself. Result - a puppet show and two Thai students who hopefully will use the puppets themselves as a method of evangelism : )