Blog by Rich

I left Joyce alone with the girls to attend faculty devos. Mark Hall, our fearless leader challenged us to write the names of our students on our hearts the way the high priest was to wear stones with the nam...

They're setting off fireworks as a praise offering, thanking the Lord for all he's done so far this week.

I'm performing and teaching at the Divisional Senior Music and Gospel Arts Camp for the Salvation Army. Youth from all over Ontario meet just northeast of Toronto to study performance and the Word. The Lord is at work here. On the opening night the chaplain, Dr. Ron Powell, challenged the students t...

...and the show has not yet begun!

...Now that it's over it has become my new favorite, only slightly dislodging Les Mis?rables, which inspired me to spend my life doing theatre. Lord of the Rings inspired me all over again!

The acting and singing were fine, but it was the creative telling of such a r...

We're on the tallest man-made observation deck on the planet. The tower above us makes the CN Tower the tallest building in the world.

Getting here I was in 6 airports in four days and five of them were different: Newark to O'Hare, O'Hare to LaGuardia, JFK to Toronto. That may be a personal record.

...for something completely different.

I went straight from TAM to EWR (Newark Airport) to fly to Chicago to coach architects for a presentation.

During our program last night a representative of Star Lake Musicamp received the baton from our prayer warriors. First one of our students prayed and then the gal from Star Lake ignited their week of 24/7 prayer a state away.

The Eastern Territory of the Salvation Army has been praying continuously...

During our closing worship session we were empowered to share all that God did in us and through us this week. I was a mess. We caught a glimpse below the surface, and the Lord was stirring some deep waters.

I shared a vision I had during listening prayer. Our instruction was to imagine that we were ...

While contemplating this verse we smashed pottery to bits.

At this station we pondered how the Word of God cuts through the deceptions of the enemy as we sliced through clay and flower arranging material.

This station had the sweet aroma of freshly baked bread.

Here are my actors for my piece on the woman caught in adultery. The final performance went so well! I was quite proud of what they accomplished in a week.

During our closing worship service there was a time of sharing. Several students spoke of the impact of our program: Over 100 students in more th...

These are just a handful of our written and painted prayers that we brought to the lobby for our final performance.

This is the group I've met all week to explore TAM Conservatory's theme of prayer. It was this group that prayed through NYC on Wednesday. Here we are in the 24/7 prayer room. It's now packed full of written and painted prayers.