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...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.

If you look closely at the picture you'll see that none of the 130 high school and college students or faculty are talking. We're having a monastic meal in complete silence. Even my friends' baby waited to whimper until most people had left. I went back for seconds and dessert so I could soak it all...

We're on a prayer walk of NYC. Each group has been assigned nine of twelve strategic sites in the neighborhood where we're seeing Slava's Snow Show later.

The Commissioner just told us that the Territory is doubling our offering. We're sending the orphanage $100,000!

We overshot.

Last year at TAM we pledged to raise $10,000 by Dec 1 for an orphanage in Nigeria. Then a student proposed that we raise $50,000 by TAM '06. On The first night they raised $1818.96. By Dec 1 they raised over $11,000. The students used all sorts of methods and events. By June it broke $26,000. Their ...

Today four students shared international experiences they've had this summer.

Between them they've visited Chenai, India, San Luis and La Paz, Bolivia, the two cities I visited on my first Compassion trip, and the last students taught choreodrama in Kibera, Kenya, and Ghana. Choreodrama uses movement...