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About Car Park Parables
It’s Sunday and the cars in the church car park are bored, wondering why they have to come here every Sunday morning.
Then a voice from the shadows offers to tell them the stories being told in the church.
“Would you like to hear them?” asks Old Mr T.
“On one condition,” the other cars reply…
So begins the adventures of Car Park Parables. A delightful collection of stories that Jesus told, but with a twist – cars are the characters!
Written especially for young boys more interested in cars than bedtime stories, they will delight boys and girls of all ages.
From the shadows an older car, who has been around the block a few times, offers to tell them the amazing stories that are being told in the church – stories that could change everything! They agree, but on one condition – cars have to be the stars of the stories, not people.
I began writing the stories, buying some toy cars, building a model over the next month, much to my son’s excitement. Slowly the stories took shape, a friend took photos of it all and I put them together in little booklets. My son loved them and I began to realise this idea was too big to keep to myself! Then I began the long road to publish.
But that’s what they’re all about – making the good news, good news to little boys, and anyone else who’s willing to listen.
The idea for Car Park Parables came to me while I was pondering this dilemma. My two and a half year old son, was more interested in playing with his toy cars, than in me reading Bible stories at bed time. I wondered, ‘how can I get cars in the bible where there is an obvious historical problem?’ I can’t remember how long I pondered this, but an idea was hatched, quite probably late at night when many of my ideas come.
I imagined a bunch of cars parked at a church car park every Sunday morning, bored, bored, bored – as they would be. They would rather be out on Sunday drives. Just as most little boys find worship boring and would rather be running around outside.
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Paul has lived in Victoria, NSW, NT and Qld. He was an awarded teacher, and youth pastor before being ordained into Ministry. He’s been a Pastor for over 20 years, having been awarded the Burdekin Shire Citizen of the Year in 2011, and the lead Pastor at Redcliffe Uniting Church while they added a community services hub to the life of their Parish.
About Paul Clark
Paul Clark is an author, broadcaster, husband, father, Pastor and puppeteer. Through his own experience of nearly being bored out of the church, when he finally did hear the call of God, he made it part of his mission to never bore people with the good news of God’s love.
Thus he is always looking for new ways to share the Old Story. He has written a collection of 5 drama and puppet books from his years of writing, performing and directing such Sunday skits. Three stand alone children’s picture books and a collection of his first 100 radio ‘at the top’ spots. He’s gone on to record over 1,000.
An excellent communicator, Paul can be heard on Radio across Australia with his one minute “At the Top” spots, is a sought after guest speaker and regular contributor for sightmagazine and ISCAST, among other publications. Paul is currently the Dean of Formation at Trinity Theological College, where he is training the next generation of Pastors in the skills of Ministry.
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