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Where Can Our Puppet Team Minister Outside of Church?

For over fifteen years my wife and I had a traveling puppet team that ministered throughout New York State and several surrounding states. Most of our programs were presented at churches, but we also had a number of non-church venues. Here’s a list of some venues you may want to consider.

1. Nursing homes. Many nursing homes have churches and entertainers come in on a one time or monthly basis. We’ve seen God use our puppets to communicate truths there in exciting ways.
2. Camps. We have ministered with puppets at a Christian camp in upstate New York most summers for close to 30 years. In fact, we’ve ministered to at least six or seven camps with great results.
3. Community centers. During the summer, a lot of community centers are busy with programs for children. Some will allow you to do Christian based programs and share the gospel while others won’t. If they don’t, you could perform programs centered on character building. It would help you reach out to the community and promote your team so maybe some of those who attend will check out your team at church. 
4. Backyards. Set up your theater and run a back yard Bible club. You could do it as a precursor to VBS or a follow-up. You could use it as a summer outreach where you take your program to where the children are, and not make them have to come to you.
5. Fairs. Many fairs rent spaces for games, concessions, churches, etc. Rent a space, set up your theater and conduct ten minute puppet shows every hour or half-hour. 
6. Parades. Make your float into a puppet theater and perform songs. Include contact information on the side of your float and hand out promotional fliers if that’s allowed.
7. Christian schools. We’ve done chapel sessions for a couple of Christian schools. You get to minister to children and promote your team at the same time since several different churches are usually represented in the school.

That’s seven ideas. I’m sure you could come up with more. The idea is to go to where the children are, and not always make them come to you.

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