Lads to Leaders puppets skit draws Alabama broadcast duo’s attention.
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Make listeners snicker?
That’s what Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey do on their nationally syndicated radio comedy show.
Evoke that same laughter as bulbous, fabric-headed Bible teachers in a puppet skit by Christian teens?
Now, that’s a new one.
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“I didn’t see this coming,” Rick quipped on a recent episode of the “Rick & Bubba Show,” produced at WZZK-FM in Birmingham, Ala., and aired on more than 60 radio stations, mostly in the Southeast.
Enter six young men from the Tuscumbia Church of Christ in northwest Alabama.
The high school puppeteers mixed the radio show’s good ole boy humor with Romans 1:16’s bold testimony (“I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ”) to deliver an award-winning performance at the annual Lads to Leaders convention in Nashville.
This story appears in the online edition of The Christian Chronicle.
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