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We had such a wonderful week with these amazing people at the Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp! We completed the short film "Milk and Oranges" based on a true story told by Nathan Ashton, who shares seven film credits with me

This marked Joyce's directorial debut:
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07.06.17 03:58 PM - Comment(s)
Rich Swingle - A man of great faith. His story of God's goodness shows me how much we can trust our Father - when He calls, He will make the way for us to follow. Rich is a walking testimony to God's faithfulness! 
-- Heidi Olson 
Voice Over Artist


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07.05.17 10:38 PM - Comment(s)
Tonight the International Christian Film Festival Awards will be aired on TV and online.

Here are the nominations for which I might have gone to the stage:
• Represented A Matter of Perspective for Best Short Film

• Performed and served as Acting Coach on  One Day, which was nominated for B...
06.24.17 06:26 PM - Comment(s)
Stephen Kendrick said something at this year's  Christian Worldview Film Festival that resonated with me. He said you want lead actors that love Jesus and represent him on and off the camera. Thanks Stephen. That advice was hugely important for me in casting Rich as the lead in  ...
06.21.17 11:41 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce celebrates Father's Day by teaching on Matthew 27:45-56. She mentions the confirmation of my  grandfather's Salvation. Opening by Pastor Jim Warren. Communion by Dr. Linda Warren.

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06.18.17 09:29 PM - Comment(s)
Trevor has been having adventures up north, and on Sunday you'll hear an amazing story about a translation of the Beatitudes and how they can bring life to our lives.

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06.15.17 10:50 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce teaches on the Book of Ruth, which is read every year at the Feast of Weeks, celebrated by the Church as Pentecost, which falls today. She referenced Ezekiel 1:1-28, 3:12.

Pastor Rachel Taylor opens and prays over the service. Call to worship by Melanie Solomon, who also reads John 14:16-17....
06.05.17 01:51 AM - Comment(s)
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I've been cast in an exciting New York City production, Celebrity Confessions: Live from Broadway, which opens June 12!

We'll be baring our souls and sharing how the Lord met us in our lowest valleys.

Among the cast I have four friends involved:

Dan...
06.03.17 08:05 PM - Comment(s)
Crystal Van Artsdalen, Rebekah Stought,
Rachel Marley and Morgan Fairbanks
have been my students at MasterWorks
 and The Rocky Mountain Christian
Filmmakers Camp
.
I played several roles and served as Afghan accent coach in the audio dramas Escape from the Eagle's Nest and The Giant Killer fo...
06.03.17 06:19 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce teaches on Matthew 26:1-16 at Westchester Chapel Church of the Nazarene. I open the service sharing highlights from District Assembly and showing my award for Best Actor in a Short Film to my church family who helped me win it! I also mention the story Pastor Larry Mancini tells in ...
05.14.17 10:51 PM - Comment(s)
Larry Mancini was telling me so many profound and marvelous stories about his six (so far) trips to Haiti that I just had to capture one of them...

05.13.17 08:55 PM - Comment(s)
The morning after I won Best Lead Actor in a Short Film at the  International Christian Film Festival in Orlando for my performance in " A Matter of Perspective" our church, Westchester Chapel Church of the Nazarene, celebrated the award!

Dr. Linda Warren teaches on M...
05.07.17 10:52 PM - Comment(s)
In this service at Westchester Chapel I open the service and introduce the short films  A Matter of Perspective and  One Day. I also mention  Twin Rocks Friends Camp and the  Joni and Friends performance that put me in touch with the filmmakers of A Matter of Pers...
04.30.17 11:02 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce and I with Cindy on a recent
visit she took to NYC.
Since about 1994 I've been performing in public schools through the invitation of Cindy Sebring.

That year I drove (back when I tried to keep a car in NYC) down to the DC area for a Christians in Theatre Arts conference. I remember the rain...
04.24.17 04:41 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce teaches on John 20:1-18, and she shares one of her funniest stories from her corporate career!  Pastor Jim Warren opens the service with "Happy Resurrection Day" in the numerous languages of our congregation, and Pastor Linda Warren prays over the children and the sermon.

Cli...
04.16.17 11:04 PM - Comment(s)
Linda with Joyce and I just
before the turn of the century.
Tonight  Dr. Linda Warren taught on Matthew 27 and Psalm 22:1-11, and as an analogy she shared how she came to the Lord. I was sobbing and sobbing, because she's the one who led Joyce to the Lord when they worked together at Sports Ill...
04.15.17 02:05 AM - Comment(s)
At our service tonight I read excerpts from  Psalm 78.

Pastor Rachel Taylor leads us in remembering the Lord's Last Supper with his disciples. Kimberly A. reads Luke 22:7-13. Tamara W. Reads Luke 22:14-20.

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04.14.17 02:48 AM - Comment(s)
In this morning's service at Westchester Chapel  Dr. Linda Warren shares a story about how she wrote Joyce's name on a palm branch on a Palm Sunday about 25 years ago. It brought me to tears!  Pastor Jim Warren preaches on John 12:12-19, with readings from John 11:23-27, 12:1-11, Ze...
04.09.17 10:20 PM - Comment(s)
At the
AMC Empire on Times Square.
This  is my new favorite movie, and that's only changed twice since 1981: Chariots of Fire and Risenare the only ones to have held that place in my heart since junior high.

The Case for Christ tells the true story of how Lee Strobel, a hard-boiled, a...
04.08.17 12:59 PM - Comment(s)
Elizabeth J. in the Moses Seat at in the
ruins of Chorazin, Israel, flanked by 
Rebekah W. and Anna S. 
in 2005.
I opened this service at Westchester Chapel mentioning The Hill family, who produced A Matter of Perspective, in which I performed last summer.  Pastor Randy Solomon pr...
04.02.17 10:25 PM - Comment(s)

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