Results of Aug 24-25 shows

 Highlights

• Friday night was low attendance mostly free tickets for Sommerville County, we had plenty of volunteers but little or no Prayer Tent activity, and the first show was great!  
• The Prayer Team prepared for the show by cutting prayer request cards and inserting them into each playbill. We need to do this every week. Dena and Gary's family worked on this.  Dena and Gary also worked to  scan and email prayer requests - we will do that early each Monday. For those that requires followup I will communicate with Glenda and Martha about them. 

• All prayer requests came from Sat. night.  We have 48 written prayer requests. 
• We baptized 6 people after the show. Five people were baptized by an Open Door pastor and 1 by Director Chuck. I gave them all Promise baptism certificates. 
• Open Doors Church and pastor Troy Brewer from Burleson was our partner church for the show.  Open Doors is actually sponsoring our entire season, so we will see a lot of them.  They brought 800 of their members and baptized about 172 of them before the show.  They offered many to help in Prayer Tent and communion.  Their main pastor Troy Brewer volunteered in the Prayer Tent at Intermission. They were great and made the evening very exiting!
• About 6 volunteers from a Hispanic church in Granbury was there on Sat, and they said they will come every show.  They are bilingual.  Wow what a blessing!
• I prepared every volunteer group by giving them a brief verbal description of what we do and a quick tour of the resources. 

Lesson learned?

• 3 visitors asked me if we have someone that can pray prophetically.  Perhaps a challenge for a bunch of Baptists!  I gave them to Open Doors people.  This morning I posted a subset of an article on our blog about praying prophetically.  What would you say if someone asked you that?  click here for article
• One technique to connecting to people is to hang out outside of Prayer Tent, and start talking with all people who lingered or passed by slowly. Offer to take a prayer request so cast and crew can pray for them. For many requests they did not come into tent; I heard request verbally then wrote it down on a prayer request sheet.  I kept prayer sheets and pen on the small table at front of tent. 
• We received a lot of Prayer Tent volunteers from past.  I will have more cheaper stick-on name tags for part time volunteers.   Full time volunteers can use the pin-on name tags and keep them in the tent so we can reuse each week. 
• I will have a signup sheet for these part time volunteers to optionally add them to email list for prayer requests, etc.
• In the prayer request list I emailed today I am urging cast and crew to email prayer requests to us.   I will likely give that prayer email address to Promise worker such as concession stands, gift shop and other staff.  Prayer email address: prayers@thepromiseglenrose.com.  You also can send email here for anything you want cast and crew to pray for. 
• We need to be ready to baptize after every show!
• Let's all help Glenda when needed with distributing communion elements. 
• Please send me any of your ideas for improvement.