Martin Olmos

Martin is married to Pat, and they have three children. He works in educational technology and is excited about technology supporting theological education in the Global South. At church, he loves teaching children and often gives a hand to his puppet friend 'Stinky'.

The simple way to teach with puppets

  • Martin Olmos
  • 29 October 2018

Puppets give you power: power to engage and hold children’s attention, even in a crowd; power to create a ‘proxy child’ with whom the audience can identify; power to create a regular structure that children can master and within which they can learn.

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Easter and the dead man on the train

  • Martin Olmos
  • 11 April 2017

Easter reminds me of the most embarrassing moment of my life: the time I brought a dead man back to life just by touching him. I think it is the shock, surprise, and comedy of Easter that remind me of that day.

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