Seeing and Hearing through the smoke . . .

Keith & Mary with some of the Papiamentu "voices"

Did you know God could work through cigarettes? I sure didn’t. Last Saturday it was my turn to do yardwork around the church building in Arnhem, the Netherlands. A fellowship of mainly immigrants meets in the building on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. One of Christian sisters who was waiting for that service to begin came out for a cigarette break while I was finishing up. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have gotten into a conversation. She had a warm, open personality. I soon learned that she was originally from Curacao. Last summer my husband Keith Holmes and I spent two months in Curacao recording the New Testament in this sister’s first language, Papiamentu. She knew nothing about the recording. When Keith showed up, he showed her how to find it on Internet. The audio recording has been put into a video of the Gospel of Mark. She was amazed and delighted to see it. “I’m going to look at that at home!” she said. “I’m going to show it to my children!” I’m not saying God wants people to smoke cigarettes. But He can use even a nicotine additional for good. Hallelujah!

With Fur On

The puppet continues to develop. 

It now has a name (Albert or Alberta, depending on the voice of the narrator) AND fur.

We are hoping to have some DAVAR instructional  videos completed in the next week or so.

They will be available in several languages, beginning with English, Dutch, and Romanian.

Beginnings (without puppet) available here: DAVAR GAMES on YouTube.

(Videos, and video plans, also continue to develop.)