AN UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT--PUPPETS!

What have you found yourself doing this summer that you never expected to do last summer? Or even last winter? 

Our list includes: 
~working with two student interns through CBF's Student.Go program;
~making instructional videos of DAVAR: Bridging to Literacy games (with said student interns);
~working with a puppet made by one of these interns for use in the instructional videos.

The Student.Go interns couldn't go anywhere this summer. However, we had a couple of media projects that they could do long distance. 

When everyone was on lock down, we started making videos so families could do DAVAR games at home. This evolved into making instructional videos with the added goal of having people from an oral culture background easily learn to lead the games for groups.

Someone suggested using a puppet in the videos. One of the interns responded enthusiastically. 

He wrote: I would like to say i am loving this program and process and i think potentially growing these videos would be a fantastic experience and definitely beautiful for a resume. Thank you for letting me do this.

Here's some photos of the puppet in progress. 

Stay tuned to see what God will do with this next!

Pentecost--All Year Through

The Sinti Romany churches in the Netherlands traditionally get together for a big tent meeting on the weekend of Pentecost. There will be preaching, singing, barbecuing, socializing, and baptizing. Services will be in at least two different languages so as many people as possible will be able to hear that Jesus can transform their lives and the Holy Spirit can dwell within them and among us to work out that transformation.
Of course, such a huge gathering, even in the open air, didn't happen this year. A lot of other things happened instead. For instance, the CBF field personnel in Europe made this video to share with you all. Thank you for making it possible for so many others to hear the Word of God in their own languages, not just on Pentecost, but all year through!