RichDrama - Blog #New JerseyRichDrama - Blog #New Jerseyhttps://www.richdrama.com/blog/tag/New-JerseyThu, 09 Apr 2026 16:49:56 -0700http://zoho.com/sites/<![CDATA[A Few Highlights of the Year]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/a-few-highlights-of-the-year2Here are some highlights from this year I realized I never posted about when they happened... Princeton University Since 2007 I've presented or co-prese ]]>

Thanks for All Your Prayers!

Here are some highlights from this year I realized I never posted about when they happened...

Princeton University

Since 2007 I've presented or co-presented a Graceworks workshop for the School of Architecture at Princeton. It's always such a blessing to be on that campus. At a certain point Christian Union had 400 students involved, making it one of the largest student body groups on campus. Pray for the Lord to continue to move among these future leaders. 

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

I was blessed to co-present a Graceworks workshop at NERC, the Northeast Regional Conference for the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) in Lancaster. 


What a beautiful city! 

Blessings in KY, MI, TN, NC, SC, TX


I had private workshops or coachings in Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and Texas that also blessed me in major ways! 

Our Christmas eLetter Will Go Out Soon


We want to thank you again for being on our prayer team! We know it makes such a difference as we go out into the world to encourage people in their faith and warm those who have none to the Gospel. 


We're composing our Christmas eLetter, so we appreciate your prayers that it will bless all who receive it. 

]]>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:09:16 -0500<![CDATA[A Few Highlights of the Year]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/a-few-highlights-of-the-yearI'm preparing our Year in Review, and I realized there are some pretty major events I hadn't given praise for yet: Sharing a monologue as Rees Howells, ]]>

More to Come    

I'm preparing our Year in Review, and I realized there are some pretty major events I hadn't given praise for yet:

50th Anniversary of Intercessors for America

Sharing a monologue as Rees Howells, one of our heroes, at the IFA celebration was one of the highlights of the year. The day before Richard Blackaby mentioned how Evan Roberts prayed "Bend me," which was something I had in my script. Then before I presented, one of the IFA board members mentioned Rees Howells. Then, after I was done, Dutch Sheets spent much of his talk on Rees Howells! After he got off the stage Dave Kubal, our CEO, told him Rees Howells had been dramatized on the stage, and he said, "No way!" He told Dave that while he was preparing he kept hearing, "Rees. Rees." What confirmations that we picked the right piece! They sold out of copies of Rees Howells: Intercessor in the IFA bookstore!


We're planning to record the monologue so watch your inbox.

I Dreamed I Was Free in Princeton

I shared my one-man play I Dreamed I Was Free in Princeton for the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society. It was a fund-raiser for them to build a museum. Robert J. Hillier, who hosts our Graceworks workshop every spring at Princeton University set it up and had this to say afterward: 


I want to tell you how pleased everyone was with the play and especially your acting, Rich! They are still all talking about it and even raising the possibility of bringing you back to a bigger venue. You certainly did yourselves proud and made me somewhat of a hero for proposing you do this. Thank you so much. 
— J. Robert Hillier
Founding Principal, Studio Hillier

Pensacola Christian Theatre Festival

I was blessed to share some excerpts from and stories about Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself at this marvelous gathering of Christian thespians! What a joy to spend time with those folks. As Rees Howells said of the students and staff of the Bible College of Wales, my sense is that those who spoke at and attended the Festival have laid their lives on the altar for their gifts to be used exclusively for the One who gave them.

What's a Girl to Do

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. Such a great bunch!

"Ember"

I got to perform and coach actors in a short film written and directed by a graduate of the Lamplighter Guild in Georgia. More to come on that as I'm able to share.

Our Christmas eLetter Will Go Out Soon

I want to thank you again for being on our prayer team! We know it makes such a difference as we go out into the world to encourage people in their faith and warm those who have none to the Gospel. 


We're composing our Christmas eLetter, so we appreciate your prayers that it will bless all who receive it. 


Also, we're letting many know for the first time about our need for people to partner with us to get us to Paris and Edinburgh for the Olympics and Fringe Festival. Please pray many give toward this trip. When we brought my one-man play Beyond the Chariots to London for the 2012 Olympics we know we reached people from at least 30 nations, so we're praying we reach people from even more countries through this trip. 

Help us bring Beyond the Chariots to Paris and Edinburgh next summer: 

www.GiveSendGo.com/ChariotsParisEdinburgh

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We're still trying to figure out when the last of the worshipers from the Asbury Outpouring left Hughes Auditorium (post a comment if you know), but we connected with two people who left at midnight after the Collegiate Day of Prayer service ended, so that seems to have been the official close. That means -- if you count the Collegiate Day of Prayer, which flowed out of the Asbury Outpouring -- February 8th's chapel at Asbury University went at least 374 hours. 

Friday the last of our contributions ran on Intercessors for America's Asbury Revival! Daily Updates. You can visit that page to see them all, but here are highlights from ours:

Friday, February 24
Rich: While driving home to New York City from Asbury University we passed through the Washington D.C. area for a family event. We prayed into the commissioning we sensed we have all been given from Asbury. On the drive down we prayed for IFA state prayer leaders as we drove through their states , so we also picked up Virginia and Delaware on the drive home:


Thursday, February 23
Rich: On Thursday, Feb. 16, a speaker at Asbury University (they are intentionally not introduced to keep the focus on the Lord) read from John 15, focusing on verse 4 (ESV): Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.


I have to point out that those empty seats were about to be filled! There were hundreds in the line waiting to get in. 

Also, I found out later, the anonymous speaker was Zach Meerkreebs, who preached in the service on February 8. After he was done with that one he texted his wife: "“Latest stinker. I’ll be home soon.” Three hundred and seventy four hours later the University felt they had to close that service to get back to being a university.

Tuesday, Feburary 21
Joyce: My first day, Tuesday, February 14, at the Asbury Outpouring, I spent less than a minute in Hughes Auditorium, the main venue for the worship services. Even so, the presence of the Lord was so tangible, I burst into tears.

Saturday, February 18
Rich: My favorite moment at Asbury University — and actually a favorite moment of my life — was early Tuesday morning, Valentine’s Day. I woke up and saw that it was 2:44 a.m. I remembered that Jeannine Brabon said she first experienced the Shekinah Glory fall at 3 a.m. on October 3, 1969, four months before the 185-hour revival. I wanted to be fresh for Tuesday’s Headline Prayer Live, so I asked the Lord if I should go. I just burst into tears remembering how I sensed Him say: ‘You need my permission?’


Friday, February 17
Joyce: Yesterday Rich Swingle, IFA contributing writer and prayer leader, spoke with a man who had been a classmate of Jeannine Brabon, who was instrumental in the 1970 Asbury revival. The man made an interesting comment about the differences between the two outpourings: The 1970 revival was marked by testimony, usually focused on repentance, and then with worship: this current outpouring seems to be marked by worship, followed by testimony of repentance, healing, and deliverance.

Thursday, February 16
Joyce: “Viral is not revival.” Joyce Swingle reports from on-site at Asbury University: We spoke to two professors. One mentioned that he realized he had assigned a group project for a Friday deadline and he thought it would be difficult for the students to get together to do the work. He queried his class and realized they were keeping up with the schoolwork. He also mentioned he and several of the professors were finding that the outpouring was not keeping students from their classes. Fewer were cutting than the professors expected. Seems this outpouring is not making the students indolent but industrious!

Tuesday, February 14
Rich (My original article): Chapel on February 8 at Asbury University went long…and as I write it’s still going! In 1970, a chapel service in the same Hughes Auditorium went 185 hours. Ever since I heard about it circa 1987, I’ve been praying — as many of you have — for another revival to break out! I believe revival is breaking out.

Praying Our Way to Asbury
Rich (this was a separate article): On our way to Asbury University for Tuesday’s Headline Prayer Live, we decided to pray over each state we drove through on the 11-hour drive from New York City. We also prayed for each of the state prayer leaders. It ends with us walking into Hughes Auditorium, where the revival went for 185 hours in 1970. This outpouring has been going over 150 hours as I write, and there’s a line stretching down the road to get in!


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

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