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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Puppeting!

Winnie asked me how my Good Friday was during PEG today... and I realised I haven't quite got the opportunity to gush about the kids at the puppet show to anyone yet!!! So I think I totally tortured her with my rapid, enthusiastic, overloading of how adorable the kids were and so on... Oops. : p

And now I'm going to overload it more on my blog. I think all the practices (noisy and tiring they were) we had for consecutive weeks was TOTALLY WORTH IT because children are the most innocent things in the world and the gospel was really meant for them! Initially I feared the Ragman script would be too deep for them because it was really quite obscure, and very different from the usual joking playful script we were used to. But thank God the response from the kids was great!!!

The funniest part was when the Ragman pretended to die (parallelling Jesus' death on the cross), and Cyrus (the narrator) was supposed to look away in grief, while the Ragman would sneak off (paralleling Resurrection of Christ), so that it seemed that the Ragman aka Jesus rose from the dead! But of course the kids could see the Ragman get up and walk away, so when Cyrus turned around and pretended to be surprised that the Ragman was gone, all the kids were screaming "He went that way! Behind the stage! That way!!!" And poor Cyrus had to ignore all of that and go on saying "He has risen from the dead!"
I nearly laughed into the mike!

And the most endearing thing is at the last part when Cyrus asked "So do you want to invite Jesus into your heart today?", the kids raised their hands so easily as though you had just asked them if they wanted to eat MacDonalds. Haha. I love kids!!! They can just so freely accept the truth about Jesus, and to them, their Saviour is like their friend to them!

Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them. Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
Matthew 19: 13-14

Jesus prayed for little children! How cool is that?!

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