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08/08/09

One year after the Beijing Olympics began, we're in the opening ceremony of TAM Conservatory ( http://theTAMjam.com ).

Carol Jaudes (CATS on Broadway) has directed this program for nine years. Check out my post on August 4 to see how cool it's going to be this year!

It was jus announced that we'll hav...

08.08.09 11:00 PM - Comment(s)

Unmasked

Next week I'll be teaching and performing at this...

...if you're in the area, I hope you can join us.

08.04.09 05:56 PM - Comment(s)

from the Hospitality Queen

I wept as I read your email Rich – Praise God for His Mighty workings through you and Joyce and your team!!!! I know even greater things are coming for you both!

be blessed, love,
Nay

Renné Dismore
Hospitality Queen
Nay's Creative Ways
3382 Stadler Drive
Pickerington, OH 43147
614-332-3534
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08.03.09 07:27 PM - Comment(s)

Living Water

This fountain is created on what used to be a prayer labyrinth two blocks from our apartment. I've been blessed by a number of labyrinths around the world. As you journey to the center you focus on drawing closer to God. On the way out, you pray that you will more effectively take the presence of Go...

08.02.09 12:44 AM - Comment(s)

From Transylvania

How wonderful are the ways of our Father. :) Dear Rich and Joyce your energy and enthusiasm in the Lord amazed me and makes me to want more and more of Him. :) Thank you for sharing your life and time with us.
Your sister in
Jesus Christ,
Krisztina
MasterWorks Festival student, 2009
From Transylvania

07.26.09 06:13 PM - Comment(s)

The Amazing Month of MasterWorks!

We had an amazing month at the MasterWorks Festival!

Ken Wales (far right), producer of Amazing Grace, Christy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the original Pink Panther films, among many others, met with most of our students to help them see how their unique giftings can help them fit into the enterta...

07.24.09 03:17 PM - Comment(s)

Orlando sociodrama with poor clients

I was able to be a part of the sociodrama workshop and was really blessed by the experience. It was amazing how open the men were to sharing and also how able some of them were to contribute creatively to the activity. I journeyed all the way from British Columbia, Canada, to get involved in this an...

07.24.09 12:06 AM - Comment(s)

Happy Fourth of July!

Wishing you a great Independence Day from Winona Lake, where we're at the half-way point of the MasterWorks Festival.

07.05.09 01:55 AM - Comment(s)

MasterWorks is off to an amazing start!

The students we have this year at MasterWorks are amazing! Their gifts and talents, as well as their hearts for the Lord are just mind-blowing.

06.26.09 12:59 AM - Comment(s)

What do I do?

Last night I performed The Acts at the downtown Orlando Salvation Army. Afterward a gentleman in a Salvation Army Adult Recovery Center (ARC) came up to me and said, "So what do I do?" I asked him what he meant, and he said he'd prayed the prayer during the close of the play to commit his ...

06.21.09 02:09 AM - Comment(s)

In the shadow of justice there is Compassion Corner

I taught a sociodrama (www.RichDrama.com/WorkShops) master class at the Christians in Theatre Arts (www.CITA.org) National Conference in Orlando. We started the class at the conference, where I taught the history and basics of the dramatic/therapeutic form, then we took a free (thanks Orlando!) pub...

06.20.09 07:44 PM - Comment(s)

Orlando

I'm at the Christians in Theatre Arts Conference (www.CITA.org) in Orlando. This morning I'll be doing a master class on sociodrama, which will start at the conference, and then move down the street a few blocks to incorporate Compassion Corner clients, who are working to get their lives back in or...

06.19.09 09:53 AM - Comment(s)

Star Lake

I just arrived at Star Lake, where I'll be working with the cast of CAST, the Salvation Army's Creative Arts Service Team. What a joy to work with actors, where the only Star is Jesus. That's quite liberating!

Now we're on lunch break, and I have to say that they're quite a talented bunch. We're havi...

06.17.09 03:51 PM - Comment(s)

Redemption and laughs

We all need a reminder of what God can do through a devoted soul, and there is no better way to draw close to that than by watching Rich Swingle perform this miraculous one-man show. It's not just the layers Rich brings out of the characters, not just his command as an actor playing multiple r...

06.12.09 05:50 PM - Comment(s)

In the fiery furnace

Linda Braaten, missionary to South Africa, spoke to our church tonight.

She shared how her pastor was called to minister in a place quite closed to Christianity. He went to call on a leader in that place, and the security guard asked him why he was there. He told the guard that he was there to share ...

06.12.09 01:06 AM - Comment(s)

Don't miss King David!

We got to hang out with the miraculous Sanborns today.

Art, who was paralized from the neck down, was telling us how (before he worked his way up to 150 push-ups and 6 mile runs) he couldn't even communicate with anyone but God after his swimming accident. Now he's grateful for those extended period...

06.11.09 06:04 PM - Comment(s)

After performances in a public high school

The kids had a great time. When I asked one teacher what she thought of your performance, she smiled and said one word - "Phenomenal!" I see you as highly energetic, creative, polished, engaging, and invigorating. When I watch you perform "Beyond the Chariots" and you...

06.11.09 12:20 AM - Comment(s)

Living as a Called Person

While prepping for MasterWorks, which starts in a matter of days, I decided to recommend Chapter Five of Gordon MacDonald's Ordering Your Private World: "Living as a Called Person". I first read the book when I was the students' age. Back then I set out to read at least part of the book ...

06.10.09 11:58 PM - Comment(s)

Concert on Sunday

There will be a concert this Sunday at Union Theological Seminary in the James Chapel beginning at 6:30PM.

MasterWorks students (from left to right) Caroline Chehade, Paulina Papölöne and Laura Hairgrove will be performing. The concert will be a fundraiser for a tour they're doing with a number of o...

06.10.09 10:58 PM - Comment(s)

Donna East returns to Westchester Chapel

Christian Comedienne, Donna East ( DonnaEast.com), will perform at WCCC on Saturday, June 20 at 7pm. She'll be bringing clean comedy for the entire family. Speaking of which, she's got plenty of fresh material based on her new role as mommy.

Get prepared for the healing art of the belly laugh.

Send ...

06.10.09 03:22 PM - Comment(s)

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