Welcome

James and Shannon started Puppets as kids with their Moms in  Children's Ministry at their local churches. Many years later, after  they are married with 2 girls, James found some puppets in a closet at a  Church they helped as Children workers.  James remembered the days when  an Evangelist would use Puppets for Vacation Bible School and preach to  the parents that night with the idea of the puppet shows.  After this  day Herdsmen Puppets was born.

Over the past 10 years we have been gathering many Puppets and Ideas  to help with many Church's and Vacation Bible schools in many places.   We have had Fun at birthday parties and other events too.

In 2009 James went on his first oversea Mission trip to Dominican  Republic where he enjoyed teaching puppetry and leaving many new puppets  with the churches there.

Other trips we have sent puppets on include Colombia South America and Brazil to go down the Amazon river.

In 2015 we helped  Keep Toledo Lucas County  Beautiful Create a new mascot and puppet show.

In 2019 we helped create a new puppet mascot show  for Stark - Tuscarawas - Wayne county  Time to Recycle program.

In 2020 we learned how to build puppets and more about Green screen puppetry.

In 2022  Hannah Ellis  has been growing into the business starting to do more shows.

Our Mission is to Reach the Heart with Puppets.

We follow a simple rule,   Have Puppets   Will Travel.

1. We are a Biblically Based company.   What does this mean?
  We believe the Scriptures of the BIBLE, both Old and New Testaments, to be the Words of God and therefore completely trustworthy for leading our lives.

• Bible is the Word of God    (  Bible Color Book )
  • 1 Thess 2:13 “ . . . when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe
    • 1. The Book on the shelf is just Empty pages and doesn’t help our lives. Show blank pages 
    • 2. We start to hear about the church, the bible, and God;  but it’s just good stories in a book.  Now printed with black and white drawings of the Christian story .
    • 3. If a person reads the word of God they will find many wonderful stories about our Lord and Savior. But once they get to know and accept Jesus as their personal Savior, He will fill their life with more beauty than they can imagine. Fan the pages and the pictures in full color. 
• Salvation is only one Way
  • Not By Works
    • Eph 2:8-10 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
  • Jesus is the only way to heaven/ the Father (John 3:16 John 14:6)
    • John 14:6
      • “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
• How we Teach salvation is with the Romans road Scriptures. One of the ways we use it is the Color Change Bag. First they see Black, then Red, White, Green, and Yellow. Each color has a spiritual representation. Black-Sin; Red-The Blood of Christ; White-The Clean Heart; Green-Growing in Christ; Yellow-Going to Heaven
  • Romans 3:23  Black all Sin
    • “…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…”
  • Romans 5:8  Red Blood of Christ 
    • “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
  • Romans 6:23 White Clean Heart/ forgiven
    • “For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
  • Romans 8:1  Gold/Yellow Hope of Heaven
    • “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ…”
  • Romans 10:9  Green  Growth as Christians Changed
    • “…that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved…”

2.  Reading helps your imagination grow

3.   Healthy simple living. 

• We try to live the 10 commandments as a Guide to our lives.  Exodus 20
•  We learn and apply the wisdom of Proverbs and the Bible when we can. 

4. We are to Keep earth clean and take care of it.  

The "Re-ways" is one way we follow this instruction.  ( Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)

• Gen 2:15   The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 

5. How we try to treat others. 

• Golden rule
  • Mat 7:12 “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
  • Luke 6:31 “Do to others as you would have them do to you.”
  • 1 John 3:18 “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”
  • James 2:8  “If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. “
• Love others in the Faith for unity.
  • John 15:17 “This is my command: Love each other.”
  • John 13:35 “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

6.  Why do we charge differently for Gospel Shows?

• We do this for GOD not money.
  • Matt 6:24  “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
• Money doesn't change what we do for the Gospel. 
  • 1 Cor 2:17 Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.
• We Don’t worry about the profit or stuff. ( Bird Song “Don’t worry trust Jesus”)
  • Matt 6:31- 34 “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

This is a list of why we do what we do biblically and what we teach in our shows. It is not a full list, however it does cover the basic and most common questions we are asked about the Bible shows.