Here's Our Year in Review
Joyce opened the Advent Season for our church, Westchester Chapel, with a message from Matthew 1:18-23 and Isaiah 7:14. I got to sing a quick excerpt from "People Get Ready," by Misty Edwards:
Some of our most exciting news of 2023 is what we're planning for 2024! We're taking my one-man play about Eric Liddell to Paris for the Olympics and to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival. This is the first time a city has hosted the Olympics exactly 100 years after the time before, and we're seeing how the Lord wants to use this to shine the spotlight on his servant, Eric Liddell. The four-time Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire shows how he refused to prove that he was the fastest man alive when it was announced that one of the heats for the 100m was to be run on a Sunday. So he trained for the 400m and broke the world record. My play tells the rest of that story, how he left fame and fortune behind to serve the people of China.
For more about this trip and how you can help make it happen, visit www.GiveSendGo.com/ChariotsParisEdinburgh.
Year in Review
January
We started the year with a bang! On the way to record Jonathan Park Episode 21: Back to the Garden I rode past a fiery pier of Christmas trees. Our recordings were just as fiery, and -- as I'd prayed -- we had an answered prayer in the moment it was prayed!
February
March
On the 1,820th anniversary of Perpetua's execution The Diary of Perpetua was streamed, and we got to answer questions from the audience as cast and crew. Perpetua was the first known female author, and she was martyred for her faith in Jesus Christ.
April
Joyce pulled together artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and we gave voice to the images to tell the story of Good Friday to Westchester Chapel.
May
A cartoon I was in was released in the Star Spangled Adventures series: "America on the World Stage." I played two roles, assistants to William Randolph Hearst and Teddy Roosevelt.
June
We began to share excerpts from our new "singing play" Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself. Almost every time people want to continue to worship! We're up to six hours, forty-one minutes of what we're calling "Tarrying Time."
July
On Independence Day, Intercessors for America shared footage of Joyce and I rededicating America to the Lord at Cape Henry, where Robert Hunt did that 13 years before the Pilgrims landed.
August
I was able to drop onto the set of What's a Girl to Do in Ohio to answer questions for post-episode talk-backs with the cast and crew.
September
We brought scenes from Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself to Howells and Poughkeepsie, NY, with a cast of six, plus some walk-on roles in Poughkeepsie. People worshiped for nearly three hours after we released them following the scenes!
October
I got to play a founding father in Tim Mahoney's upcoming film The American Miracle. Tim was willing to do an interview with me while I was still in costume, and Intercessors for America ran it on www.HeadlinePrayer.org.
November
The highlight of the year for me professionally was performing a monologue as one of our heroes, Rees Howells, at the 50th Anniversary for Intercessors for America. The choice was confirmed in multiple ways, including when Dutch Sheets spoke about Howells! Our CEO told Dutch I'd portrayed Howells, and Dutch said, "No way!" While preparing he kept hearing "Rees. Rees."
December
We're slated to share a scene from Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself on Christmas Eve morning at the church I grew up in, Medford Friends, while in Oregon with family for Christmas.
January
It hasn't happened for you yet, but we pre-recorded the January 2 episode of Headline Prayer Live so Intercessors for America staff can have the day after New Year's Day off, and we were so blessed by how it went! The whole program is focused on the Asbury Outpouring. I shared interviews with the president and university pastor of Asbury, two students, fresh insights from Jeannine Brabon who was praying for revival at Asbury since she was a freshman in 1966, and Judge Tim Philpott, who also spoke at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Asbury Revival. It will air on January 2 at 12:15 p.m. on www.IFApray.org/watch.
Those of you on our Prayer Team (you're all invited to join) know there was quite a lot more that happened throughout the year. Thanks so very much to all of you for praying for us throughout the year! We already know the New Year will be full, and we rely on your continued prayers!
We'd be most grateful if you can also partner with us financially as we bring Beyond the Chariots to Paris for the Olympics and Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival...
We appreciate you partnering with us to make this happen:
