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Carole Jeanne Bate gave her testimony this morning. She said she pulled away from the arts for a long season because she was so self conscious. Then one day someone told her self consciousness wasn't part of the curse, it was the curse. As she has grown in her relationship with the Lord she has unap...
08.10.09 12:31 AM - Comment(s)

Instructors get to perform, too!
08.10.09 12:30 AM - Comment(s)

Lincoln Hawk is one of the leaders of a prayer walk we're doing this morning.

He asked us all if we spend 30 minutes a day prepping our physical bodies by taking care of our appearance or eating. Then he asked if we spend that much time developing our spiritual selves. He challenged us to develop spi...
08.09.09 12:59 PM - Comment(s)

Our featured guest artist this week (www.RichDrama.com/NewsBlog 8/8/09) is Doug Berky, who was a master class instructor at MasterWorks (www.MasterWorksFestival.org) last year. Last night he shared his testimony. He came to the Lord while he was studying at the Del Arte School of Physical Theatre. H...
08.09.09 12:58 PM - Comment(s)

The Creative Arts Service Team, which I got to work wih just before MasterWorks, performed a powerful choreodrama they developed with Becky Phillips, who's been an instructor at TAM longer than my six years.
08.09.09 12:50 AM - Comment(s)

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)
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)
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!
 
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08.03.09 07:27 PM - Comment(s)

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)
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)

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)
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)

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)

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)

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)
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)
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)

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)
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)
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)

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