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We were so deeply moved by the film, The Insanity of God. Nik and Ruth Ripkin tell how the Lord showed them that missionaries are those who go to the places where it is hard to hear the Gospel, so they asked the Lord where He wanted them to go. They sensed Him calling them to Somalia. 

After ...

This morning Joyce and I will be leading prayers on an Intercessors for America call at 12:15 pm Eastern. Call 712-775-7430. No code needed.

I’ll be praying as inspired by this video featuring Joni Eareckson Tada: 

I’m just thrilled, because she’s ...

I put this prayer (Ask for the peace of Jerusalem) in the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem in 2011.

Rachel Taylor led our Hallelujah Service today, based on Psalm 122. We didn't record the actual service because it was so interacted, but Rachel recorded a summary.      Dr. Linda Warren prayed f...

Joyce and I were interviewed Gloria Robles for this article in Headline Prayer about our work with enacted prayer: 

For more on enacted prayer visit www.RichDrama.com/Workshops.

Joyce teaches on Acts 16:16-40, when Paul and Silas' worship service led to a prison breakout. At the opening she refers to a sketch I helped my students at the Salvation Army Territorial Arts Ministry Conservatory devise through sociodrama. Click here, and then move the time to 39:25 to watch the ...

--Susan Shearer 

Producer, Actor

Five Bells for 9/11 

One of the fires sweeping the West Coast destroyed Talent, Oregon, where I attended junior high, and Phoenix, Oregon, where I attended elementary and high school. I know several classmates and family members who lost their homes, and their loss has been so heavy on my heart and in my prayers. One n...

This Sunday Joyce and I will be bringing John Wesley to life during Westchester Chapel's Zoom service. 

My friend Roger Nelson portrayed Wesley hundreds of times all over the world with the one-man play The Man from Aldersgate. It all started when Paul Moore, the pastor of The Lamb's Church o...

I had the privilege of directing the Voice Acting track at this year's Lamplighter Guild. Students in the writing track, directed by Dan Schwabauer (left), wrote three audio dramas and seven commercials. Music was composed by John Campbell as he walked his students through the process. The Soun...

Our second of three short films our students created at the Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp has been released. It's a fun commercial parody...

  https://www.youtube.com/embed/JCaQsNOIuRU

Keep scrolling down at www.RichDrama.com/RockyMountainChristianFilmmakersCamp for our first shor...

It was such an incredible blessing to take part in this year's Lamplighter Guild for Creative Disciplines! It was all based on the theme "Facing Fear with Faith," and what an appropriate theme for this year marked by so many things we could be afraid of. 

I taught voice acting and...

At the Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp last month we filmed three projects, and the first was just released today:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/CGqIBd_Tt0M

Our students did everything on both sides of the camera...except play the interrogator and the guard. Zack Lawrence plays the first, ...

This photo has all of our acting students, but two of the filmmaking students left before this photo was taken. Photo courtesy of Pete P.

We had what we as faculty thought was our smoothest Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp to date! This was the 12th year of Film Camp, and I've taught there ...