My OperaOUR PUPPET HISTORY, PHILIPPINES
Saturday, February 7, 2009 6:18:40 AM
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We started with a need. I (Teddy) and my wife (Ellen) seek God for one of a kind idea to generate earning to sustain our three children. At that time, our children are on their developmental growth stage that influenced us to conceptualize children related product. This puppet concept comes into our daily circumstances that help us to connect the pieces about skits of values with my wife own composition of songs mimic and sang by 2 colorful puppets namely VALues and LIFE. We presented it to a publishing company which approved and invested on the production and marketing the product.
2004, we produced 200 puppets for 100 Values ‘n Life Puppet Kits as initial order. It takes 4 year to sell it all. During that 4 years waiting to for earning I started to look for other ways to earn from different industry to sustain my family. I went to Italy, 2006, live with my mother there exploring opportunity to earn money. After 1 year of my stint, I cant live without seeing by wife and children. I seek God to make way for me to go home. The Lord impressed me to go back home December . God tested me if I believe that. Indeed, God sent me home living Italy December 31, 2006 at 10PM and arrived home January 1, 2007.
We lived with a very limited resources then only my wife earning from her teaching piano and voice lesson service to middle class children. All the Italian made products I represents here as agent to Italian companies, made no result. Our limited resource push us to seek scholarship for our eldest daughter to be schooled which she passed the exam for scholarship of our town Mayor. We also cannot send our youngest daughter to preschool that pressure me a lot to make ways for her. In my quite time the Lord spoke to me “why bother to look for a school for her , START A SCHOOL”. I informed my wife about it and she agreed. She call her friends and started the tutorial type learning system that my wife acquired experience in an expensive school in Paranaque. We name our learning home after my daughter’s name LIFE . KIDS FOR LIFE LEARNING HOME. We have now 16 students that God brought us to learn not only reading and writing but the secret of success in life which is OBEDIENCE to God and parents.
We are not just into puppetry to make money but we are into encouraging children to have fun learning every day. With this, we excite them to pursue schooling. Our learning home always 100% attendance, children bothering their parents to bring them to school early. But the main ingredient of our system is the assurance of love they experience from my wife. As result, most of our student s can read and write at age 4. They are capable to enter to first grade. Amazing GRACE.
We thank God that all our clients are from HIM. We learn to wait upon Him concerning resources, clients, payment and sustenance. We are very particular in what is the objective our clients for purchasing our puppets. The sole purpose of our puppet making is, for education use for conveying moral, social and spiritual values.
Thru this small piece cloth puppets, God brought us even to TV questing, conducting workshop to social workers and teachers, buying books for our children, paying our bills and giving Him offering.
God blesses us where He put us. The bibl e says “In HIM we move and live and have our being”Act 17 : 28
Business Life is not about YOU it is about HIS VISION TO FULFILL THRU YOU…....
