October 29, 2008
The "Brilliant" Idea
For the last three days I have been running around trying to get everything set up for our puppet presentations during the big evangelism push this year. My biggest headache (and biggest expense) has been getting permission from the city to use electricity. We ended up paying twice as much as last year, and we still have the hassle of sending somebody to the location early in the morning to meet the technicians.
Which made me think...what if we had our own moving puppet stage.
We could get a vehicle like this...
...or this...
...or even this...
...give it a nice paint job, modify the back of it, and voila! we have our very own mobile puppet stage.
Aside from our participation in the big evangelistic push every year, this would also be perfect for doing evangelism in the surrounding cities. We could leave the seminary on a Saturday morning, be in a given town within an hour or so (depending on the town), spend the rest of the morning and a part of the afternoon doing presentations and passing out literature, and invite everybody to a BIG presentation that evening.
This would be especially awesome because certain religious groups (read, THE religious group that has held sway over this area for the last five centuries), when they find out we are coming to an area to do children's programs, schedule their own programs to compete with us. If we had such a "mobile unit" we could appear with no warning, and there would be NO WAY for them to interfere.
In most of these small towns there is nothing to compete with an attraction like this, and we would have the attention of the WHOLE TOWN for the WHOLE DAY.
I did a little preliminary research, and it a project like this would most likely cost about $25,000. Of course, we do not happen to have that kind of cash lying around, but this is not a problem for God.
We would love to have your input on this. Does this sound like a good idea? Would you be willing to help make it a reality? Let us know what you think.
Posted by Andrew on October 29, 2008 5:47 PM.
Comments
Posted by: pregador27 at October 30, 2008 11:00 AM
Thanks! We are going to try to make a go of it...see if God opens doors.
Posted by: Andrew 
at October 30, 2008 11:09 AM
I think it's a great idea! You're right, the vehicle can definitely add to the advertising and be a real attention-getter.
Personally, I prefer the third van painted in some hippie colors and flowers and call it the Mystery Machine like on Scooby-Doo. Kids'll love it!
Posted by: Jeff Bartz at November 5, 2008 1:12 PM
YES! And while we are at it, we can give away free Scooby Snacks(tm)!
Posted by: Andrew at November 5, 2008 9:57 PM
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That idea ROCKS!!! We will pray God releases the money to you.