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.