The Scriptures came alive in a deeper way!!  I will be playing these scenes over and over in my memory during this Passion Week!  Glory to God!!

--Nancy Rife

Prayer Leader for Intercessors for America

Director of the Upper Peninsula House of Prayer at Father’s Heart Church in Ishpeming , Michigan

Well done! Very powerful! May all those who watched it be filled with thanks and amazement at the love of Christ for us at the cost of His life. May they all remember the true meaning of Easter. 🙏❤️🙌

--Cathi Scorcia

​​* If you received a postcard saying I (Rich) performed Views of the Manger on four continents, there's a funny story behind that. Joyce and I were talking about where I'd performed it, and we remembered we'd performed it in Taiwan and Kenya. After ordering the cards I looked up the photo of me washing feet in Kenya... but it was Joyce. Then I realized it was Shepherds Reflect on the 23rd Psalm that we'd performed in Taiwan and Kenya! I called to cancel the order, but somehow when I placed the order with the text you read above it re-ordered the original. So some of you got the accidentally erroneous cards. We've performed and taught on six continents, but this particular play I've only done on two. 

Here's some backstory on my escalator prayer: In 2000 I was at the premiere of the AMC Empire 25 on Times Square. My friend Nancy Buchanan was the producer of the gala, which was a benefit for a few Times Square charities including The Lamb's Church of the Nazarene, where I had been an intern and lived for four years. The event left quite an impression on me, so when we moved to Midtown Manhattan it became our theatre of choice, and it was after that first film there that I was reflecting on the gala and prayed that one day I'd be descending that escalator having seen a film I was in. 

You can read more about how special the AMC Empire 25 is by clicking here.

In case you haven't watched the video, I'm not in the film, but thanks to Bev Holloway I was the accent coach for Terry O'Quinn. 

And here's what I wrote down the night I told Joel Smallbone about my work:  "Joel was hoping all the Australian characters could be played by Australians, but he was so pleased with Terry O'Quinn playing his grandfather, and Joel said, 'I never questioned his accent.'"

I also have to thank Ash Sellers, a friend in Sydney, who was willing to record Terry's lines for him, which helped tremendously in the coaching process. 

I'm so blessed with the work Terry did and how the film turned out! 

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We're so very blessed by some recent gifts which have put us closer to our budget for our upcoming trip to bring my one-man play Beyond the Chariots to Europe...