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Joyce kicks off the annual meeting of our church, Westchester Chapel, preaching on Haggai.



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04.04.11 02:37 AM - Comment(s)

Os Guinness addressed this question in his keynote.

We have three challenges:

1) Prepare new communities of Christians:
Evangelism in developing nations is easy, but discipleship is the challenge. Many return to their pre-Christian habits.

2) Win the West back to the Lord.

3) Find constructive solut...
04.03.11 02:10 AM - Comment(s)

Our first speaker of the day, Max Anderson, is the founder and chairman of the MBA Oath Initiative, a grassroots effort to establish a Hippocratic oath for MBAs and other business professionals. While a student at Harvard he started an online pledge students could sign committing themselves to the p...
04.03.11 02:10 AM - Comment(s)

In the media vocational track John Seel told how he found himself as the President of nCore Media, a visual super computing company that produces the fastest processor in the world. The chip can render CGI 15 times faster than their closest competitor.

He said when you step through the doors the Lor...
04.03.11 02:10 AM - Comment(s)
Christian Union, the organization that is hosting this Congress ( http://RichDrama/IvyLeague) has 260 students, making it the largest membership of any student organization on the Princeton campus. Harvard has beaten their growth rate and Yale is beating Harvard. They have a 24/7 prayer room and al...
04.03.11 01:30 AM - Comment(s)
Tonight's speaker for the Ivy League Congress on Faith and Action, Matt Megill, MD, served as a medical missionary in West Africa for two years through Samaritan's Purse.

My notes:

Four medics and 150 local helpers cared for 1000 patients every week.

Medicine is a powerful mirror of the Gos...
04.02.11 12:22 AM - Comment(s)
I was part of a panel with Tim Tsang (Moogist) and G. James Daichendt on Arts and Entertainment at the Ivy League Congress on Faith and Action hosted by members at Harvard University.

Christian Union, the organization that is hosting this Congress has 260 students at Princeton University, making i...
04.01.11 01:57 PM - Comment(s)
Courtesy of Charlie Jones of  Peculiar People...







Also pictured:  Thomas William Sieberhagen
03.31.11 02:04 AM - Comment(s)
Courtesy of Charlie Jones of Peculiar People...







03.30.11 03:46 PM - Comment(s)
I've witnessed your work in sociodrama a few times over the years and each time I am stretched.  Thank you for your sensitivity and agility to float so easily among various communities, all children of the Lord.  You also have a gift at facilitating.  You're wise to know when to sit b...
03.30.11 01:06 PM - Comment(s)
I had the great pleasure of attending the Applied Theatre Conference in March 2011. I pre-registered for Rich Swingle's class: "Sociodrama for At-risk People." I had little knowledge of this area but wanted to learn since my ministry has taken us to many at-risk people. Rich...
03.29.11 11:18 PM - Comment(s)
Sociodrama was used to create and direct this at the Applied Theatre Conference this weekend.



There were two endings created and rehearsed. The enactor playing Jeff was instructed to make his decision between the two endings in the moment of reflection of the "voices" he heard at the mi...
03.27.11 01:11 AM - Comment(s)

Last night I performed Beyond the Chariots at North Greenville University in South Carolina. I'm performing again tonight, and I was office-ing in one of two box offices. I had to send several students to the right one to get tickets for tonight, so hopefully we'll have a good crowd.





03.24.11 09:35 PM - Comment(s)
Just got this from the writer/producer of God of Hope:

The God of Hope radio interview with nationally syndicated talk show host Hugh Hewitt done on March 22 is now loaded on the website. Go to GodOfHope.net and click on the blog button (W). There are three (3)...eight (8) minute segments...
03.24.11 07:34 PM - Comment(s)
I got to perform in a sketch on Sunday that was written and directed by Natasha Dormeus. Some dialogue was created through improv with me and the other actors: Ava P., Rachel Taylor, Jan Miele, Andrew Kelly and Claude Chew.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/DVyIW6diZdU

This sketch is available for downlo...
03.23.11 05:22 PM - Comment(s)
I'll be presenting with Graceworks tomorrow at an economic summit near Princeton, NJ: The Princeton Packet report.
03.15.11 07:37 PM - Comment(s)
I was listening to Alberto and Kimberly Rivera's song " Wings" today. It paints an incredible picture of the Love of God overcoming pain and bringing healing.

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=westcheste...
03.14.11 09:46 PM - Comment(s)
It was the first time I understood the text so clearly because of how you presented it. (Speaking of Rich's performance of  Paradise Lost.)
--Linda Warren
Associate Pastor,  Westchester Chapel
Adjunct professor of Bible and Christian Ministry,  Nyack College

03.14.11 01:39 AM - Comment(s)
My call to worship this morning at Westchester Chapel was setting up Pastor Linda Warren's sermon Christ's Passion to Be with Us.



This call to worship is available for download on iTunes, where you can also subscribe to our podcast. Search for "Westchester Chapel" on the iTun...
03.13.11 08:21 PM - Comment(s)
Pastor Linda Warren preaches on John 14:1-7.  One of her illustrations is how excited I was to see Joyce at our wedding 13 years ago this month.

Closing by Pastor Joyce Swingle with Mike Hood on keyboard playing "This is My Story" by Phoebe P. Knapp (public domain).



This sermon is ...
03.13.11 08:19 PM - Comment(s)

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