RichDrama - Blog #ChristmasRichDrama - Blog #Christmashttps://www.richdrama.com/blog/tag/ChristmasSun, 12 Apr 2026 02:00:10 -0700http://zoho.com/sites/<![CDATA[Have a Blessed Christmas!]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/Christmas We pray that the Advent Season is helping prepare your heart to receive afresh -- or for the first time -- the One who ste ]]>

Celebrate this Holy Season

We pray that the Advent Season is helping prepare your heart to receive afresh -- or for the first time -- the One who stepped out of Heaven to be born as a Baby that we might, through Him, ascend to Heaven and live eternal life now. 

I was blessed to perform "Something Leaps Inside Us All" at Medford Friends Church, where I attended from third grade through graduation. You're welcome to watch the recording below, but if you're in the NYC area, I'll be performing it live on January 3 at 5:30 for Westchester Chapel. 

Click here to go to the beginning of the service.


It's been an incredible year of ministry and travel with performances and/or workshops in NY, TN, MI, KY, NJ, MO, NV, NE, CO, MA, SC, OR, NC, TX, VA, PA, plus Washington D.C. 


Here are a few of the highlights...

January

Joyce and I helped create and launch a new workshop for Graceworks: Leading with Wisdom and Grace.

February

I covered the Collegiate Day of Prayer for Intercessors for America, including an interview with Jeremy Story, who relaunched the annual event after decades of dormancy. 

March

I performed Beyond the Chariots at the Knox Academy in Southern Oregon. Afterward I told stories about our adventures with the play in Paris during the Olympics and invited them to come forward if they'll follow the Lord where He leads. The photo shows the response.

April

I made my Broadway debut, answering a prayer I prayed in 1994 to perform at Times Square Church which meets in a Broadway Theatre (Photo with longtime friend Mark Steele). 

May

Before leading a workshop for an SMPS regional gathering in Omaha, Nebraska, I recorded how I'd almost performed there in 1995. 

June

Joyce and I covered the Kennedy Center Red Carpet Premiere of The American Miracle for Intercessors for America. I played Gunning Bedford, representative of Delaware at the Constitutional Convention. On the same trip I performed voices for Star Spangled Adventures: The Movie.

July

I created a short film commemorating the 100th anniversary of Eric Liddell leaving Scotland to serve the people of China.

August

Ruth Aird, the host of Heart of the Matter interviewed me about performing Beyond the Chariots around the world.

September

I portrayed Rev. John Bacon in the short piece "Something's Brewing in Boston."

October

I performed "Loyalty," a short drama about the letter to the Church of Pergamum in the Book of Revelation as a part of our series on The Revelation at Westchester Chapel (in photo).

November

Star Spangled Adventures released "The First Great Awakening," in which I played George Whitfield.

December

I prayed for New York State on a call that ended a three-day fast for revival around the world. 

We did have a low point in our year, when Joyce's father went to be with the Lord full time. Though we miss him terribly, we know we'll be reunited in Glory. 


May your Christmas be filled with awe and wonder, as you consider the greatest Gift the world has ever known. 

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I played Belle‘s manager and served as a producer for NYC scenes in The Farmer & the Belle: 

Now available on Peacock, YouTube, Tubi, and Amazon.

]]>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:18:45 -0500<![CDATA[Have a Blessed Advent!]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/Christmas2023This is our annual Christmas eCard and Year in Review, including Joyce's message for the First Sunday of Advent.]]>

Here's Our Year in Review

Joyce opened the Advent Season for our church, Westchester Chapel, with a message from Matthew 1:18-23 and Isaiah 7:14. I got to sing a quick excerpt from "People Get Ready," by Misty Edwards: 

Some of our most exciting news of 2023 is what we're planning for 2024! We're taking my one-man play about Eric Liddell to Paris for the Olympics and to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival. This is the first time a city has hosted the Olympics exactly 100 years after the time before, and we're seeing how the Lord wants to use this to shine the spotlight on his servant, Eric Liddell. The four-time Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire shows how he refused to prove that he was the fastest man alive when it was announced that one of the heats for the 100m was to be run on a Sunday. So he trained for the 400m and broke the world record. My play tells the rest of that story, how he left fame and fortune behind to serve the people of China. 


For more about this trip and how you can help make it happen, visit www.GiveSendGo.com/ChariotsParisEdinburgh.

Join Our Team!

Year in Review

This year we performed and/or taught in NY, NJ, PA, MD, WV, KY, VA, DE, CO, OH, GA, FL, AL, MS, TX, plus Washington, D.C.


Here are some of the highlights:

January

We started the year with a bang! On the way to record Jonathan Park Episode 21: Back to the Garden I rode past a fiery pier of Christmas trees. Our recordings were just as fiery, and -- as I'd prayed -- we had an answered prayer in the moment it was prayed! 

February

I've been praying for revival since hearing about the 1970 Asbury Revival when I was a freshman in college, so when I discovered Asbury's February 8 chapel continued around the clock I told Joyce how much I'd love to go. She said, "Let's do it!" We drove 11 hours, and Intercessors for America had us report daily from campus while we were there. 

March

On the 1,820th anniversary of Perpetua's execution The Diary of Perpetua was streamed, and we got to answer questions from the audience as cast and crew. Perpetua was the first known female author, and she was martyred for her faith in Jesus Christ. 


April

Joyce pulled together artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and we gave voice to the images to tell the story of Good Friday to Westchester Chapel. 

May

A cartoon I was in was released in the Star Spangled Adventures series: "America on the World Stage." I played two roles, assistants to William Randolph Hearst and Teddy Roosevelt.


June

We began to share excerpts from our new "singing play" Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself. Almost every time people want to continue to worship! We're up to six hours, forty-one minutes of what we're calling "Tarrying Time."

July

On Independence Day, Intercessors for America shared footage of Joyce and I rededicating America to the Lord at Cape Henry, where Robert Hunt did that 13 years before the Pilgrims landed. 


August

I was able to drop onto the set of What's a Girl to Do in Ohio to answer questions for post-episode talk-backs with the cast and crew.

September

We brought scenes from Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself to Howells and Poughkeepsie, NY, with a cast of six, plus some walk-on roles in Poughkeepsie. People worshiped for nearly three hours after we released them following the scenes!


October

I got to play a founding father in Tim Mahoney's upcoming film The American Miracle. Tim was willing to do an interview with me while I was still in costume, and Intercessors for America ran it on www.HeadlinePrayer.org.

November

The highlight of the year for me professionally was performing a monologue as one of our heroes, Rees Howells, at the 50th Anniversary for Intercessors for America. The choice was confirmed in multiple ways, including when Dutch Sheets spoke about Howells! Our CEO told Dutch I'd portrayed Howells, and Dutch said, "No way!" While preparing he kept hearing "Rees. Rees." 


December

We're slated to share a scene from Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself on Christmas Eve morning at the church I grew up in, Medford Friends, while in Oregon with family for Christmas.

January

It hasn't happened for you yet, but we pre-recorded the January 2 episode of Headline Prayer Live so Intercessors for America staff can have the day after New Year's Day off, and we were so blessed by how it went! The whole program is focused on the Asbury Outpouring. I shared interviews with the president and university pastor of Asbury, two students, fresh insights from Jeannine Brabon who was praying for revival at Asbury since she was a freshman in 1966, and Judge Tim Philpott, who also spoke at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Asbury Revival. It will air on January 2 at 12:15 p.m. on www.IFApray.org/watch. 

Those of you on our Prayer Team (you're all invited to join) know there was quite a lot more that happened throughout the year. Thanks so very much to all of you for praying for us throughout the year! We already know the New Year will be full, and we rely on your continued prayers!


We'd be most grateful if you can also partner with us financially as we bring Beyond the Chariots to Paris for the Olympics and Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival...

We appreciate you partnering with us to make this happen: 

www.GiveSendGo.com/ChariotsParisEdinburgh 

]]>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 22:03:13 -0500<![CDATA[The Farmer and the Belle on Peacock!]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/the-farmer-and-belle-on-peacock
The Farmer and the Belle: Saving Santaland is now on Peacock!

Praying this wonderful story about how magnificent we are in the Lord's eyes is seen -- and the message received -- by multitudes! 

I was a NYC producer and play the manager of Belle, and we've been blessed with permission to share a promo code for merchandise on www.TheFarmerAndTheBelle.net: SWINGLE. That will get you a 15% off coupon. 

Here's info on a Young Adult book they released two weeks ago:


Here's the Peacock trailer: 


I play a lead in  Providence. Jenn Gotzon Chandler, producer and star of The Farmer and the Belle, has a cameo. 

]]>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:09:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Christmas Story]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/the-christmas-story
I got to read part of the Christmas story ( Luke 1:26-35 and  Luke 2:1-7) to Westchester Chapel this morning, just before  Dr. Linda Warren brought the Christmas message -- Make Room for the Lord -- from  Luke 2:1-7. 

Click the arrow below, or if you're reading this in an email you can  click this link, to play the service:

https://archive.org/embed/linda-christmas-2022-12-25-22-2.58-pm 

This service is available for download free on iTunes, where you can also subscribe to our podcast. Search for "Westchester Chapel" on the iTunes Store.

If you want to know more about starting a relationship with Jesus Christ visit www.WestchesterChapel.org/Salvation.

]]>Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[Emmanuel and My Father's World]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/emmanuel-and-my-fathers-world
A blessed Christmas to you! 

Here's a brickfilm in which I played the priest and -- for a brief moment -- Harvey Silverstein from my one-man play,  Views of the Manger, and my buddy Mac Nelson's monologue named after the character. Hope your whole family enjoys "Emmanuel": 


And here's a link to an audio book in which I play Marcus Weber and Rev. Rutledge:  My Father's World. It was produced by one of my students at the Lamplighter Guild for Creative Disciplines, Lael Lawless Goodrich, and she cast many of her classmates.

I'm cast in Book Two, so we're praying it does well enough for us to move forward. 

Hope you enjoy all twelve days of Christmas!
]]>Sun, 25 Dec 2022 19:25:00 -0500<![CDATA[A Blessed Christmas!]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/a-blessed-christmas
A couple of years ago I did a photoshoot via video conference for Melissa Thomsen, who was working on an Advent series, so it was a delight to finally meet her in person at the Christian Worldview Film Festival with one of the paintings she did!

It's quite a remarkable story found in Luke 2:8-20. The Great King of Heaven is born on earth, and the announcement is made to livestock managers who live outdoors. He was born in a manger, a feeding trough for cows, so that no one can say He doesn't understand their poverty. 

It was pretty easy for me to imagine seeing those angels, because I was able to draw from Joyce's wonderful piece, "The Shepherd's Daughter," which she performed in the Shepherd's Cave in Bethlehem:


Joyce and I are in charge of our Christmas Eve service. We're excited about doing a readers theatre performance with folks from our church of  The Unlikely Wise Man. I'll play Robert Redfern, the unlikely Wise Man, who is a Scrooge-like character. Joyce will play the six-year-old Toddle. 

It will be at 7 p.m. Eastern, live and over video conference only.  Click here for video conference link. If you're in the area it will be at the Sonesta Hotel, 66 Hale Ave, White Plains, NY 10601.

You can hear the professional recording we did two years ago for free for a limited time.

It's been a full and amazing year, with performances and/or journalism assignments for Intercessors for America in 14 states, plus Washington, D.C.: OR, NY, ID, WA, NC, CO, FL, MS, LA, TX, MO, GA, KS, NJ. 

Here are a few highlights...

January:Preached in Pakistan (via video conference) and coached dialects for Washington's Armor. 

February: Recorded voices of Rev. Rutledge and Marcus Weber for My Father's World. 

March: Co-led annual workshop at Princeton University (via video conference). Played Mr. Alphabet in Lamplighter Theatre's audio drama Crown of Success and several voices on the podcast Famous Last Words. 

April: Performed  The Revelation, Big Fish Little Worm, and  Journey to the Garden throughout the Pacific Northwest.

May: Posted " Lies of the Left," one of my most popular articles on www.HeadlinePrayer.org.

June: Toured with The Hiding Place Musical. 

July: Portrayed  John the Baptist and Lazarus telling wedding at Cana for the 80th birthday of best man at our wedding in Pascagoula, MS.

August: Rich and Joyce both presented at  Christ Over Career National Kickoff in NYC.

September: Won Best Justice - Prayer at Content2022 Film Festival and Media Summit and Honorary Actor at Great Lakes Christian Film Festival. 

October: Performed I Dreamed I Was Free at The Brown Grand Opera House, which I'm calling the Carnegie Hall of Kansas. Joyce and Rich covered the Let Us Worship and IFA Policy & Prayer Summit in Washington, D.C.

November:Christ Over Career Houston.

December:Views of the Manger and the Unlikely Wise Man near NYC.

You can see the recording of Views of the Manger below through Christmas Day.
We're so very grateful for your prayers and support throughout the year! If you're interested in praying for the work we do we encourage you to sign up for the More Frequent Updates at www.RichDrama.com/Updates. Some of you are getting those, and we're so grateful for your prayers! We send out those updates from one to five times a week. Keep scrolling for recent posts to that list.
 
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Available to watch through Christmas Day: Views of the Manger.
Subtitles in Spanish was only available for the live performance.



]]>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:43:00 -0500<![CDATA[Christmas' True Meaning: Pictures of Courage]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/christmas-true-meaning-pictures-of
Joyce presents Part II of her Christmas message with pictures of servants from the gospels of Luke 1:26-56 and Matthew 1:18-25 who rallied to the Lord's mission to seek and save the lost.  Joyce also cites John 10:15-18. 

If you missed Part I, you can click here to listen or visit www.WestchesterChapel.org/Christmas (12/15).

Click the arrow below, or if you're  reading this in an email you can  click this link, to play the service. Here's Pastor Joyce's introduction:


Then I present two sketches, "Guess What," and "What!?" from my one-man play  Views of the Manger originally performed at New Dawn Church in Florida.

The rest of Pastor Joyce's sermon is followed by Tamara W. praying for those called to join Jesus in His Mission to seek and save the lost.  


The audio portions of this service are available for download free on iTunes, where you can also subscribe to our podcast. Search for "Westchester Chapel" on the iTunes Store.

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I released “Pentecost: Beyond the Imagination,” a scene from my one-man play, The Acts, at www.RichDrama.com/Pentecost.

]]>Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:42:00 -0500<![CDATA[Rally to Seek and Save the Lost!]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/rally-to-seek-and-save-lost
Joyce teaches Part I of Christmas's True Meaning -- to seek and save the lost -- in a message from John 10: 1-18 at Wednesday evening's "Praise, Prayer and Proclamation of the Word."  She will share Part II of Christmas's True Meaning on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, and we'll share two stories from my one-man play Views of the Manger.  

Click the arrow below, or if you're reading this in an email you can  click this link, to play the service:

https://archive.org/embed/joyce-john-10-12-15-21 

This service is available for download free on iTunes, where you can also subscribe to our podcast. Search for "Westchester Chapel" on the iTunes Store.

If you want to know more about starting a relationship with Jesus Christ visit www.WestchesterChapel.org/Salvation.

Join us for Part II of Joyce's teaching, which will include two elements of Rich's one-man play  Views of the Manger. It will be over Zoom only on Sunday, December 19, 11:00 a.m. Eastern. Contact us via the form at the very bottom of the page to get the login info. 


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