Hebrews 10:24

Calvary The Brook - Grand Terrace California

(6/13/2011)  An old friend of Ripples, Airika, has agreed  to come on board and help us out for  the summer. Heather will soon be  giving birth to little Evangeline and  will need to take a break for the  summer. Airika has graciously offered to help  out this summer so that we will not  miss a beat and the shows will  continue for the kids.  She is taking the summer off from performing her own music to help us and we couldn’t be more thrilled. She is very talented and we know the children will be  blessed as she puppeteers for us over the summer  months. Stop on by and say hello and you will be  blessed as well. Ripples is growing.  Well, in a manner of speaking. Director and Mrs. Davies added a new potential, future puppeteer. On July 9th. Kai, A healthy 9 pound baby boy was born to Director Davies’ oldest daughter.

This means that Ripples will not be performing this month as Director Davies will be visiting his new grandson on that weekend. We apologize to all of our little puppet fans for the missed show but we promise to return in September with another awesome truth from the Word of God.  Ripples was invited to share puppets with the children of the community at Grand Terrace Days. It was our pleasure to say yes. So, on Saturday July 26^th 2011, we pulled up our trailer in the park and set up the one- man stage, prepared to enlighten and entertain. The day was picture-perfect, warm and sunny at Richard Rollins Park in Grand Terrace. Soon children were pouring in and getting their faces painted and enjoying the games and fun in the “Kids Zone” tent. Along with our puppet show, the kids played games, won prizes and even got free bike helmets.  The committee which invited Ripples to join in the  community event, placed no limitations on what we  could do except to say that we were to keep our  performances from 10 to 15 minutes in length. Director Davies had no idea what he was going to  

do, but after a little prayer and some thought, it  was decided that we would use “Where’s Me  Treasure?”, a skit we did a couple of years ago  for the children of the Brook. It shares the story of  Captain Blueberry Beard returning to claim his  buried treasure and go into retirement - only to  find that thieves have stolen his gold and jewels,  rust has ruined his thingamabob and moths have  destroyed a treasured shirt. The Captain  ultimately learned that we are to store our  treasures in Heaven - a great message indeed. Interestingly enough, the theme for the Kids Zone  was pirates - amazing that Director Davies would  have chosen a pirate sketch. Maybe God had a  plan eh? We had a great turnout for the event and we even  gave every child that watched the skit a million  dollar bill! (It was a Christian tract of course - but  the children didn’t seem to mind.) Smiles were in  large supply as well. We did four performances, 10:15, 11:15 etc. and played  to eager children and their parents. All-in- all, they seemed to enjoy the performances. A special thanks to all of you who attended the  event and made it such a success for all  involved. We are grateful for your support.  We have not yet posted any video from the  performance since the tent was very noisy and  this makes the audio very difficult to hear. If we  are able to clean it up, it will be posted later.  Ripples can’t wait for the next Grand Terrace  Days! If you didn’t make it this time, then perhaps  you can join us at the church, or the next show.