Here are interviews I did with some folks before the event began:
Here's the first part of the article:
Lord, thank you for Kirk Cameron and his boldness to bring Your love and witness to America through these library readings. Multiply his efforts to embolden the millions who desire America to return to You.
An overflow crowd showed up for Kirk Cameron’s reading of his children’s book As You Growat the Scarsdale (NY) public library on Friday, Dec. 30. Other public libraries had refused to allow Cameron to read his book.
In Scarsdale more than 400 people were turned away, although Cameron and a team of staffers from publisher Brave Books held two sessions of 170 people each in the room they had rented.
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:
For our last Headline Prayer Live of the year Intercessors for America reran our Thanksgiving episode, in which Joyce and I were on a team of intercessors reporting on answered prayer for the year.
This morning IFA posted a blog post I've been updating since 2012: "Take this Challenge in 2023." It includes several plans to read through the whole Bible in a year, and an invitation to join Joyce and I in reading through the C.S. Lewis Bible. Click for more details.
Pray that the program empowers the prayers of many and that the article inspires many to read through the whole Bible again or for the first time.
In just one year, the government outlawed all school-led prayer (1962) and banned school-sponsored Bible reading (1963). 17 years later, the public display of the Ten Commandments in schools was prohibited. The attacks are now accelerating against the values our country was founded upon. As Jonathan Park discovers, we don’t need to wring our hands in despair, we need to join our hands in prayer. 2 Chronicles 7:14 provides an answer. If we will humble ourselves and pray, God can heal our land.
This series takes you on a cross-country tour to discover the importance and power of prayer and repentance.
I play General Howe and a Sergeant.
Pray this wakes many young people up to the dark forces behind much of the unrest in the world these days!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks so much for your prayers over the weekend! I was carried by them!
I performed scenes from Views of the Manger at the NYC Christian Media Community's Christmas party on Friday in NYC.
Then on Saturday I played Robert Redfern, the Scrooge of the radio drama The Unlikely Wise Man, at Hope Church in Wantage, NJ.
On Sunday I performed Views of the Manger at Butler Church of the Nazarene in Butler, NJ, with Spanish subtitles we had developed for a performance in Cuba. Nearly everyone came forward at the end to kneel at the manger. It was a really powerful moment, and many cheeks were wet with tears, as we all sensed the Presence of the One who is no longer in the manger, but neither is He in the tomb. A recording of the performance is available through Saturday.
This state of Afghanistan is a complete disaster and meltdown. Security is gone. Executions and assassinations are up. People are behind on electric and gas, and it’s being shut off. People are without food. There is massive starvation. Inflation is affecting Afghanistan as well.
The Taliban is not intent on building a nation. Their primary interest is to kill, torture, and imprison others tied to the U.S.
... the entire Muslim world has abandoned their Afghan neighbors. They all mistreat the Afghans. They all have closed their borders, except for limited ability we have to get people to (two nations).... (Afghanistan) is one massive prison.
Hamidullah (name changed for his protection) is waiting to be liberated, and he confirms Angell’s report:
Yes, dear friend. What you said is true: We are stuck in this cage, and there is no one to (liberate) us. … The day has come when families sell their innocent children … because we don’t have food. We don’t have fuel.
Hamidullah wrote a word that I think his phone corrected, so I asked Angell what he thought Hamidullah meant. Angell says he wonders if Hamidullah was talking about human organs. People are so desperate, he says, that they are selling their organs....
You can help more refugees come to freedom. Donate by sending a check made out to Heart of an Ace, and write Project Angell in the memo. Send donations to Marty Angell, at 9601 Forest Lane, Apt. 716, Dallas, TX 75243.
“For us, this silent holocaust is our modern-day Schindler’s List moment and our Dunkirk moment all at once,” Angell says. “We need to respond with boldness, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Corrie Ten Boom.”
I was blessed to cover the revival that is happening globally through the ministry of a former pro soccer player during the World Cup. They've seen 18,000 come to the Lord: "World Cup Fans Embrace Christ in Gospel Campaign."
It inspires us to pray for our ministry using my one-man play about Olympic champion Eric Liddell during the Paris Olympics in 2024. If you're not subscribed to our emails, I hope you'll join us in prayer as things develop: www.RichDrama.com/Updates.
This Friday I'll be performing part of my one-man play Views of the Manger and sharing about working more than 25 years in the performing arts at The NYC Christian Media Community Gathering:
If you're in the area and want to come, be sure to RSVP:
Wherever you are, I appreciate your prayers for the Lord's anointing on my contributions to the evening, and that all are drawn closer to the wonder of the Advent Season.
