Want a puppet ministry with pizzazz?
Take your puppet pal up close and personal! Touch audiences with your heart and humor in scripted conversations or unscripted visits — and make your message pop!
Puppet Ministry Pizzazz is for churches, families, homeschoolers, and individual puppeteers of all ages. Although geared to readers interested in puppetry for faith-sharing, it’s a valuable resource for anyone using a puppet buddy for general education, entertainment, or just plain family fun.
This conversational, nonsectarian guide is jam-packed with information and advice. Dozens of cartoon illustrations, fourteen sample scripts, eighteen skill-building activities, and a glossary of special terms will help you develop a personalized solo puppet ministry—one that perfectly suits your style, your circumstances, your message, and your audience. There’s even a whole chapter devoted to writing your own great scripts.
How-to topics include:
- Plan your ministry/teaching goals
- Pick and personalize your puppet pal
- Use vocals and body language to animate conversations with your pal
- Find performance opportunities
- Select, prepare, and perform scripts
- Interact with your pal and your audience
- Handle humor, and cope with catastrophe
- Manage business matters
- Puppet Ministry Pizzazz does NOT provide detailed instructions for ventriloquism or puppet fabrication
Want a chuckle?
Check out the book trailer I made with my pal Moochacha. (You might want to have your local pizza joint on speed dial…)
What A Time and A Place magazine had to say about Puppet Ministry Pizzazz
Columnist Jessica Reed’s enthusiastic book review
Order Puppet Ministry Pizzazz
Get copies for yourself, the budding puppeteer in your family, your church’s youth group or drama team, a creative teacher or librarian, and that quirky kid you need to buy a unique gift for. (My quirky kid, Jeff, had a great time doing puppet ministry. He grew up to be a talented digital artist, who drew the illustrations for Puppet Ministry Pizzazz. ♥ You can see some of them in the “Look inside” preview on Amazon’s book page.)
Amazon (paperback) 135 pages, 8.5″ x 12″
Amazon (Kindle) Includes hyperlinks to Scripture verses cited in the book, the glossary of special terms, and other handy items. No Kindle? No problem! Amazon offers free apps for reading Kindle books on a variety of devices.
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