Sunday, October 18, 2009

One Way Street Puppet Festival- Indy

POPS was thrilled to host their first One Way Street Festival. It was a lot of work and a ton of fun. Thanks to all the volunteers from Franklin Community Church and the other FCC who helped throughout the weekend. POPs could not have done it alone and all the support was much appreciated!
A good crowd showed up for the festival and and tons of GREAT workshop leaders were there! It was amazing to learn from some of the best in the ministry.


The other FCC was kind enough to let POPs use their facility for the weekend. Which was such a blessing. There is no way everyone would have fit in our sanctuary. The other FCC's members were helpful and encouraging throughout the festival as they shared the facility for soccer or preschool.

The other FCC also loaned us their pastor of music Terry Wagnor. He ran the lights and sound for the whole festival. He was amazing. He is such a great man of GOD. I don't think we could have hosted without him. He took our biggest concern and made it flawless. He was such a blessing. Now if POPs could only develop a plan to steal him.....................

Leah Messer dazzled us all with her amazing cooking. She prepared three meals for the team and One Way Street. Everyone was full and happy all weekend with Leah's cooking. She went above and beyond as usual! She's one in a million and POPs is thankful that the Messer family are members of the team.


Kathy Shertzer did a great job of working with One Way Street to plan the event and did an amazing job at communicating every one's role. She made sure everything went smoothly throughout the weekend.

Sherry Young was a huge trooper this weekend. She worked with little rest having just overcome a three day illness. She wasn't 100% with her strength, but you wouldn't have known it by her attitude and work effort.

POPs is very appreciative to the two founding members and all the hard work and time they pour into the ministry!
I was able to monitor three of Christy Watkins classes. As many of you may know, POPs has been inspired by Power Company and have learned so much from their performances. It was a blessing to get to spend time with the founder and director of the troop that has so revolutionized our idea of the creative arts. She was more creative and kind than I could have imagined.




Picabo was one member of a clown family that performed this weekend. They were all very talented and did a great job of sharing the message. Picabo's two children talked to me about how their mom and grandma were clowns and that they were clowns too. They were too adorable!

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