MARK AND MARTHA

Mark and Martha Mission are puppets who travel around the world visiting our missionaries in order to learn about missions and then report back to the children at Black Rock. Mark and Martha’s mission is to stir interest and excitement about missions among Black Rock’s preschool and elementary age children.  Their goal is to educate the children about:

• What is missions
• What is a missionary
• Where does a missionary go
• What does a missionary do
• What is it like to be an MK (missionary kid)
• Why does Black Rock support missions
• How does Black Rock support missions
• Who and what is a missions pastor
• How can we help our missionaries

Once a month, Mark and Martha visit Black Rock children in their Sunday school classrooms to report where they have been and who they have seen.   They show a slide presentation from the trip and display a small flag and any souvenirs they may have brought back from their travels.  In the classrooms, they talk about what they learned and what was written in their travel journal (by the missionaries).  Prayer cards featuring the country and host missionary family are also distributed.

Among other destinations, Mark and Martha have traveled to South Africa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Niger, Panama, Kenya, Niger, Taiwan, Brazil, Cambodia, Central African Republic and Eastern Europe.  They have visited orphans, brought relief to tsunami victims, encouraged college students, ridden a camel while visiting nomads and helped in a medical clinic.

After each presentation, the flags, journals, slide show DVD, souvenir, and a few prayer cards are placed in a canvas bag and left in the church library for the children to check out and take home.