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A sketch from scratch

Friday night I led a church drama team in a workshop in which we created a sketch from scratch through sociodrama. I guess the woman who runs their drama troupe was getting all these questions she couldn't answer like, "How long will it be?" "How much of the stage will you use?"...

10.30.12 04:00 AM - Comment(s)

Trevor the Treasure Seeker

The Treasure Seekers -- our new Children's Church for ages 5 through 10 -- starts this coming Sunday, Oct. 14. Bring your children to join in the search for the Treasure who lasts! A Moving Up Ceremony for those in our nursery program will take place during the main service. Following that, the chi...

10.13.12 11:17 AM - Comment(s)

MasterWorks alum voted favorite character for In His Steps

Congratulations to Samuel Carr, a MasterWorks Festival alum, who was voted favorite character in the web series In His Steps...

And the winner of our favorite character poll is... Jasper Chase!

10.12.12 02:39 PM - Comment(s)

Love Always Trusts

Though it's a shame that today's outdoor service and picnic was canceled, it is the last day of Sukkot, the Hebrew Feast of Tabernacles described in Nehemiah 8. During the days of feasting one of the prayers is for rain!

So Lord, we thank you for answered prayer! We praise You for a new...

10.07.12 02:13 PM - Comment(s)

One Nation One Day

Tracy Trost, who directed me in A Christmas Snow, is going to be a part of this amazing outreach to Honduras on July 20, 2013. They'll have 18 prayer rallies in 18 large venues in 18 states simultaneously. But there will be months of outreach leading up to that day. I have friends from Honduras who ...

10.06.12 09:45 PM - Comment(s)

Love Always Protects

Every fifth Sunday our church, Westchester Chapel, invites the children to join us for the entire service, which is designed around them. Today, Pastor Randy Solomon preached on I Corinthians 13:7 with illustrations from II Kings, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah. Dramatic performanc...

09.30.12 10:49 PM - Comment(s)

Trade of Innocents

MasterWorks Festival MasterClass instructor Bev Holloway invited Joyce and me to join her and her husband, Doug, at the World Premiere of TRADE OF INNOCENTS, a film for which Bev was casting director and also served as a producer.

This phenomenal film stars Academy Award-winner Mira Sorvino and Dur...

09.28.12 05:07 PM - Comment(s)

An International Reach

I'm so encouraged to see how many nations are represented by folks that read my blog:

Pageviews by Countries

Graph of most popular countries among blog viewers

Entry	Pageviews
United States	14330
China	1459
Russia	1045
Germany	815
United Kingdom	745
Ukraine	578
South Korea	395
Netherlands	368
Taiwan	326...

09.23.12 09:03 PM - Comment(s)

...especially in my nation

It was so good to meet you all at the Grace2London, Beyond the Chariots (http://RichDrama.com/BeyondTheChariots) event, thank you so much for your service and proclamation of the Gospel in Europe and especially in my nation!
-- Katherine Jones
Kent, UK
After seeing performances in London during th...

09.23.12 06:29 PM - Comment(s)

Unconditional

This film is spectacular!

I heard a teenager say, "I thought one Kleenex would be enough. I needed seven!" The ample crowd in our Times Square showing applauded as the credits rolled.

Support this opening weekend! It's that kind of a show.

We have a number of friends at Here...

09.22.12 11:29 PM - Comment(s)

Africa

We have invitations to perform and teach in Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Rwanda and Nigeria. But none of them can get us to Africa. We need your help to impact them with the love of God through drama.

My grandparents taught at the Rift Valley Academy outside of Nairobi in the '40s, and m...

09.19.12 02:59 PM - Comment(s)

Missions Through Arts

On September 29 I'm performing and teaching at the English East Coast Joint Mission Day 2012.

View and download the handout from the conference by clicking here.

If you know of other groups that are using the arts in missions, please post their websites as a comment.

09.18.12 03:37 PM - Comment(s)

Vulnerable

Click here for an outstanding sermon by my former professor from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Some gems: "Charisma without character is catastrophe." "'You're credible with us because you became vulnerable with us.' ...Christ is most credible because He made himself most vulner...

09.14.12 07:59 PM - Comment(s)

A jewel

It was a jewel.
--Jan Fields
White Plains, NY
After seeing one of our MasterWorks performances of The Jeweler's Shop

09.14.12 04:22 PM - Comment(s)

I wish I wouldn't have come alone

The MasterWorks students were so talented! I wish I wouldn't have come alone. Next year I'll invite lots of people!
--Rachel Prozeller
New York City
After seeing the MasterWorks Off-Broadway performance of The Jeweler's Shop, directed by Rich Swingle

09.12.12 02:45 PM - Comment(s)

Chariots of Fire in the West End

In the run-up to the Olympics we read that Chariots of Fire would be running in cinemas all over the UK. We never saw posters for the movie while we were there with performances of my one-man play on the rest of the story, Beyond the Chariots, but we LOVED the West End production of the newly stage...

09.06.12 10:13 PM - Comment(s)

Reposting a report on Toronto and the Olympics from 2012

Rich with Ian Sadler, organist for
Chariots of Fire.

My Toronto performance of Beyond the Chariots in April was bookended by Ian Sadler playing the same pieces on the organ as he did in the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. To hear "Jerusalem" played as it had in the film, j...

08.30.12 03:57 PM - Comment(s)

Grace to the Nations

I just posted a number of photos from our travels to Puerto Rico, Transylvania and London during the Olympics: GraceToTheNations.Shutterfly.com.

We reached people from 30 nations during those two weeks!

We have more stories on this blog as well as Facebook.com/RichDrama and TheLizThatWas.Tumblr....

08.24.12 02:14 PM - Comment(s)

The Rich Young Ringmaster

This is my report to Westchester Chapel of our performances and workshops in Puerto Rico, Transylvania and London during the 2012 Olympics...

08.20.12 09:02 PM - Comment(s)

30 Nations During the Olympics!

During the Olympics we reached people from at least 30 nations:

Puerto Rico
Romania
Hungary
England
USA
Australia
Canada
Holland
Switzerland
India
Zimbabwe
Liberia
Kenya
Congo Brazzaville
Japan
Philippines
Sri Lanka
South Africa
Malawi
Nigeria
Russia
Poland
Italy
Belgium
G...

08.18.12 07:39 PM - Comment(s)

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