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Dwell on these things

Tonight I'll be performing my play Five Bells for 9/11 (GCBC.org).

Each time I prepare to perform this piece I go into mourning. This year I saw it coming, so I had a number of people praying for me. God answered those prayers by giving me insight: This whole play was written to give people new m...

09.11.06 02:54 PM - Comment(s)

Enacted Prayer request being answered!

At Territorial we did an enacted prayer for Art Dean, grandfather to four of our students. He has been a powerful force in the Salvation Army, so our many hearts were joined by the enactment. It was the night before his first round of chemotherapy. One student played cancer, which clutched at his b...

09.06.06 03:10 PM - Comment(s)

Beyond Canada

When I performed Beyond the Chariots at the Territorial School of Music and Gospel Arts we invited youth to come forward if they were willing to say, "Lord, send me anywhere." Between 20 and 30 youth fell at the altar. Joyce and I prayed with many of them. Most didn't have any idea where ...

09.04.06 02:57 PM - Comment(s)

Smashing idols

We went through the story of Gideon all week long, looking at the theme of Revolution. Danielle Strickland (ArmyBarmy.com) said, "Revolution happens when people are discontent. We are called to rise up and throw down the authority of the enemy." After studying how Gideon smashed the idols ...

09.03.06 09:29 PM - Comment(s)

On the waterfront

Our small group, which is also the theatre department here at Territorial, came down to the beach of Lake Simcoe to find rocks.

08.31.06 11:31 PM - Comment(s)

Enacted prayer answered

During our enacted prayer elective we also sanctified ourselves for the work we'll do this week. We prayed for the camp and what we did was a prayer for freedom in worship. In the enactment God pulled an oppressive spirit off of a student, so the student was able to praise freely. During the electiv...

08.29.06 03:04 PM - Comment(s)

Consecrated

This morning Danielle Strickland, who is leading the worship main stream, put off their worship until they had consecrated themselves to God. She felt God was calling them to be the Levites in the camp, so they engraved (with pens) Holy unto the Lord on their forearms. During the worship service tod...

08.28.06 02:58 PM - Comment(s)

PRAY

Dr. Ron Powell challenged us last week to record insights and decisions we make while reading the Word and sitting under the teaching of the Word, so he inspired me to start blogging some of my thoughts. Here are some highlights from last week:

PRAY
Praise
Repent
Ask
Yield (Listen to what God wants to sa...

08.27.06 05:28 PM - Comment(s)

Commitment

Dr. Ron challenged us to find a rock that represented our life and bring it to evening chapel. I found this mix of rock and asphalt. After performing Jonah I told them how the represents God's gifts mixed with mentors

08.27.06 02:59 PM - Comment(s)

Let the Revolution begin!

Here we are once again on the cusp of all out revival! Youth from all over the Salvation Army's Territory of Canada and Bermuda have come together to study music and drama. Our chaplains from the last two years, Stephen Court and Danielle Strickland ( ArmyBarmy.com) have returned. If you didn't fo...

08.27.06 01:48 PM - Comment(s)

Commitment

Dr. Ron challenged us to find a rock that represented our life and bring it to evening chapel. I found this mix of rock and asphalt. After performing Jonah I told them how the represents God's gifts mixed with mentors

08.26.06 03:03 PM - Comment(s)

G'night girls

Last night Joyce and I were invited to lead end-of-the-day devotionals (devos) for Cabin 2.

I left Joyce alone with the girls to attend faculty devos. Mark Hall, our fearless leader challenged us to write the names of our students on our hearts the way the high priest was to wear stones with the nam...

08.25.06 02:53 PM - Comment(s)

Celebration!

They're setting off fireworks as a praise offering, thanking the Lord for all he's done so far this week.

08.24.06 01:12 AM - Comment(s)

Fiddling on the Roof

I'm performing and teaching at the Divisional Senior Music and Gospel Arts Camp for the Salvation Army. Youth from all over Ontario meet just northeast of Toronto to study performance and the Word. The Lord is at work here. On the opening night the chaplain, Dr. Ron Powell, challenged the students t...

08.22.06 03:46 AM - Comment(s)

Two extaordinary nights

On August 17, 1945, the internment camp in Weihsien, China, where Eric Liddell had been held, was liberated. On Thursday night, August 17, 61 years later, I got to perform my play about Eric Liddell for the family of David Michell. His book, A Boy's War, about his time in the internment camp with Er...

08.20.06 12:15 AM - Comment(s)

Hobbits are dancing...

...and the show has not yet begun!

...Now that it's over it has become my new favorite, only slightly dislodging Les Mis?rables, which inspired me to spend my life doing theatre. Lord of the Rings inspired me all over again!

The acting and singing were fine, but it was the creative telling of such a r...

08.17.06 03:26 AM - Comment(s)

Swingles atop the world

We're on the tallest man-made observation deck on the planet. The tower above us makes the CN Tower the tallest building in the world.

Getting here I was in 6 airports in four days and five of them were different: Newark to O'Hare, O'Hare to LaGuardia, JFK to Toronto. That may be a personal record.

08.17.06 02:08 AM - Comment(s)

Fwd: Rich Swingle's CITA Workshop

We just wanted to thank Rich for the wonderful Sociodrama workshop
at the CITA (Christians in Theatre Arts: CITA.org) conference! A lot of wonderful techniques were shared
and the impact of the improvisations created was really profound.
Throughout the rest of the confe...

08.15.06 10:07 PM - Comment(s)

And now...

...for something completely different.

I went straight from TAM to EWR (Newark Airport) to fly to Chicago to coach architects for a presentation.

08.15.06 03:27 AM - Comment(s)

Passing the flame

During our program last night a representative of Star Lake Musicamp received the baton from our prayer warriors. First one of our students prayed and then the gal from Star Lake ignited their week of 24/7 prayer a state away.

The Eastern Territory of the Salvation Army has been praying continuously...

08.13.06 03:04 PM - Comment(s)

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