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We've been having a ball in Europe!
We've been posting as often as we can to http://Facebook.com/RichSwingle and our friend and colleague Liz has been posting to http://thelizthatwas.tumblr.com .
Here's a video we just posted telling some of the amazing connections the Lord has been setting up: ...
08.08.12 09:29 AM - Comment(s)
We've come to London to share my play about Eric Liddell ( ...
08.07.12 08:30 AM - Comment(s)
We had an indescribably great time in Transylvania. My shirt says, "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God that brings Salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile." (Romans 1:16 NIV) Though we're in Romania, it's written in Hungar...
08.05.12 06:52 AM - Comment(s)
You're better than Jim Carrey. You can play him, but he could never play you.
--Yume Szekely Annamaria
Udvarhely
Romania
08.04.12 03:28 PM - Comment(s)
Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on James 4:13-17. Communion by Pastor Linda Warren.

http://archive.org/embed/LoveDoesNotBoast_706

Rich Swingle closed the service telling about the documentary Captivated, which was screened at the MasterWorks Festival this year.


http://archive.org/embed/Captivated_91

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07.23.12 01:53 AM - Comment(s)

Arts and media ministry leaders of New York City and friends,

I have a last-minute invitation for you to join MasterWorks and Mastermedia this Wednesday night.

Though I've lived in Manhattan since 1993, one month each year I direct the theatre program for The MasterWorks Festival (http://RichDrama.com...

07.10.12 07:16 PM - Comment(s)
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MasterWorks Festival Theatre Program Presents Pope John Paul II’s “The Jeweler’s Shop” on July 13 and 14 at 7:30pm and special industry talent sh...
06.29.12 11:31 PM - Comment(s)
Thank you for such a great performance. I lost my friend who was a firefighter. Your performance and sensitivity meant the world to me that night. 
--Sara Kronemann
NYC
(After Five Bells for 9/11 performed in NYC on 9/11/11)
06.03.12 09:30 PM - Comment(s)
"There were times when I truly forgot where I was and I would no longer be just an audience member but instead was in the scene experiencing everything that was happening in the scene."
--Lizl Kruger (after watching Beyond the Chariots)
Student
Wesleyan School
Norcross, GA
05.24.12 01:42 PM - Comment(s)
We'll be going to London and Birmingham to perform Beyond the Chariots during the Summer Olympics. Our friend Liz Jennings will be  joining us to advance translation slides as I perform my play about Olympic champion Eric Liddell. Some of Liddell's story is told in the film Chariots of Fire, ...
05.13.12 11:13 PM - Comment(s)
I shared this excerpt from my one-man play The Acts during the Friday night banquet at our denomination's  District Assembly. The theme of the weekend was "Mission Possible", based on Acts 1:8.

http://archive.org/embed/ExcerptFromTheActs

This monologue is available for download free o...
05.11.12 11:22 PM - Comment(s)

"Better than ANIME!"

--Rachel Leung

Student, Trafalgar Castle School

Whitby, Ontario

Canada

05.11.12 10:27 AM - Comment(s)

Thank you for pouring yourself out - on the stage and off - to our Bethel community. Your chapel presentation was so well done...and well received by our students. I hope your time with our theatre students was equally connecting. --Shawn Holtgren, PhD Vice President for Student Development Bethel C...

05.10.12 07:34 PM - Comment(s)
Here's my sermon on Ephesians 6:15. It contains excerpts from my one-man play The Revelation.

http://archive.org/embed/TheSandalsOfPeace

Rich mentions his sermon on Peter walking on water, Freedom from Fear of Circumstances.

Go deeper. Dr. Timothy J. Keller's series on The Armor of God includes f...
05.06.12 10:58 PM - Comment(s)
Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Ephesians 6:14 and Matthew 4:1-11.

Benediction by Pastor Rachel Taylor.

http://archive.org/embed/TheBeltOfTruth_712




http://www.youtube.com/embed/IbzbcEMDgsg

The sermon is available for download free on iTunes, where you can also subscribe to our podcast. Search for ...
04.26.12 05:26 PM - Comment(s)

This year the MasterWorks Theatre production of Pope John Paul II's The Jeweler's Shop will be going to New York City for performances in an Off-Broadway theatre:  RichDrama.com/MWFTheatre2012.

The opportunity to tour to NYC created such a demand and surge in applicants that we were unable t...
04.21.12 10:52 PM - Comment(s)
* Please be in prayer about and attend the upcoming Right to Worship Prayer March and Concert this Sunday April 22 at 2pm starting at Cadman Plaza. Pray that the people of NY would unite together in prayer and thanksgiving and intercede for the city and the area and the nation!




"14 if my people...
04.19.12 01:00 AM - Comment(s)
The Westchester Chapel Players shared the Resurrection Breakfast between Jesus and his disciples with our children of all ages.  We brought the youngest to the front table where VIP signs reserved their places.

Joyce followed the drama with a sermon on the corresponding passage from John 21...
04.09.12 01:00 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce Swingle Color Headshot
03.24.12 04:39 PM - Comment(s)
October Baby Movie is phenomenal! It was a packed theatre on Times Square that gave it a long applause when it was over. Almost everyone stayed for the interview during the credits. Kudos to Beverly Kennedy Holloway, a Masterworks Festival master class instructor, for pulling to...
03.24.12 12:34 AM - Comment(s)

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