Album Notes

"Use These Hands" features musical highlights from the Virginia Festival of Puppet Ministry and Creative Arts. Every year since 1999, the people of Rainbow Puppet Productions park their touring van, invite their performing friends from across the country to join them in an annual festival. The Virginia Festival of Puppet Ministry and Creative Arts has turned into an annual must-attend event for Sunday School teachers, ministers, and lay-people across the East Coast. "Use These Hands" includes two skits about putting faith into action. The title song has become something of a theme song for puppet ministries. The cd also includes musical highlights from original musicals presented at the festival including Rainbow's "Noah's Floating Zoo," and "Jonah." The album features original songs by festival co-founder, David Messick. Most of the material was engineered by Steve Scheffler who teaches music production every year at the festival. Many of the songs feature Tim Tha