Last week I took our seminary puppet team (Amiguinhos de Jesus) and our puppet school (Cidade Feliz) to Treasure Island, where they worked at a camp for (mostly) underprivileged kids administered by missionary colleagues Doug and Renate Reiner. In one word, the week was awesome! The four seminary students that went with us did an…
Over the weekend I made yet another trip to the city of Exu, this time with our seminary puppet team, the Amiguinhos de Jesus (Little friends of Jesus). Our team worked very hard, both in preparation and presentation. We did four separate performances, one in the main square of the city, one in a school,…
This one was held at our sponsoring church, Novo Juazeiro Baptist. Normally our puppetry schools run two days, and include a instruction on how to make a puppet. This was a reduced course, however, as the purpose of it was to teach basic puppetry techniques to people in the church who will be forming smaller…