Oct 19/20 show results

Fri Oct 19

It rained all day but show was dry.  Floor was wet so we kept rugs off of floor.  Lots of people rescheduled their tickets and the crowd was perhaps the smallest of the season (about 150 people).  Only Prayer Tent volunteers because of sickness were Rudy and Gary.  Lots of cast members were out due to faily events and sickness.  Lots of cast members played different parts including my 12 yr old son Matthew who played a lead part of Caleb the crippled boy on the main Jewish family; he memorized 28 lines in 2 days to play the part.  The other Jewish boy (Caleb's brother) was also played by a different cast member.  We received no visitors to the prayer tent. 



Sat Oct 20

If was dry and we had a large show.  We had 3 Prayer Tent volunteers: Rudy, Dena, and Gary.  Rudy did LOTS of greeting of visitors at gate.  Dena and Gary stuffed donation envelopes in 6 boxes of playbills before and during the entire show.  We had 2 visitors to prayer tent before the show, but none at intermission.  There were only about 5 ushers present so Lord's Supper distribution was challenging - we got it done by using 2 from prayer team, all ushers and 4 people from Answer International helping us.  

Show scheule for Oct 20/21 - Nov 2/3

There are no special events planed for the last 3 weekends, so it is just normal shows with large attendance and likely colder temperatures.  Gates open at 6:30pm each night.   We need to only stuff donation envelopes into playbills.  Our plan is to go up to people before show and at intermission to pass out Books of John to people and also invite them to Prayer Tent. 

Especially pray this:  Pray for Promise cast and crew unity and endurance as we complete the final 3 weeks of  show. Pray also for good weather.

Oct 12/13 show results

Friday show was cancelled due to rain, but we had a good crowd for Sat night show.  It was cold (in 40s) so crowd stayed bundled up and not very mobile, which made for low prayer tent attendance.   We had lots of volunteers from Cornerstone Church and they really helped us at Lord's Supper and they also passed out some Books of John at intermission.    

Because of earlier darkness before show, we also handed out Lord's Supper elements during intermission for people who did not get them before show.  I emaled Chuck asking if we can pass out Lord's Supper earlier such as 7:45pm, plus have baskets at intermissions for people who came is late. 

Parker (Satan) again drew a crowd at the end.  We volunteers had good group prayer in tent, we talked about plans for handing our "Book of Johns" in next 3 weeks, and we made a lot of progress stuffing donation envelopes in play bills.  The Books of John present the gospel in the first few pages of each book. 

Oct 12/13 show schedule

Fri. Oct 12:

Gates open 6:30pm
Currently 18% chance of rain at 8pm

Sat. Oct 13 - Golden Agers:

$10 off for Senior Citizens
Coupon for FREE hot drink

Gates open 6:30pm

Currently 49% chance of rain at 8pm

Should we open the gates at 4:30pm so the old people can get to bed by 8pm? 

(just kidding)

Oct 5/6 show results

Weather behaved and we had great shows. Good attendance. Teen night Sat. was great with really good concert by Citizen Way and lots of youth groups.  Parker (Satan) met and prayed with lots of visitors in the Prayer Tent. 

Oct 5/6 show schedule - Youth Night #2 (pray for no rainout)

Fri. Oct 5:

Current change of rain: 12%

Gates open at 6:30pm

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Sat. Oct 6 Youth Night:

Current change of rain: 56%
2 for 1 (Invite a friend). Musical guest: Citizen Way.  Gates open at 5:30 PM, Citizen Way Meet & Greet at 6:00 PM, Citizen Way concert begins at 6:30 PM.  Stonewater Church is sponsoring church

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Sept 28/29 show results - no rain!!!!

No rain!! That's different.  

Great shows and lots of prayer tent activity.  Triple Cross Cowboy Church helped us Sat night and did great job at Country music preshow including using a bull whip as an instrument on their last song, helping with communion and greeting visitors.  Some people came out on horses before joining the band, and 2 people on horses held the US and Texas flags for the national anthem. I grew up in rural "near West" Texas in Jacksboro and went to lots of rodeos, and I really identify with and appreciate rural cowboy culture Texans.  Thanks to all for contributing!  Next time I will wear boots and cowboy hat and maybe a belt with a REEEEEEALY big buckle (FYI - I did not win it in a rodeo riding a bull, I bought it, I was a geek in high school).  

Thanks to the 100+ members of Trinity Marthoma Church in Houston for visting the Primise.   Most were from southern India, they had never seen the Promise, and they sat on the front rows and probably got wet from the fake rain. They showed so much appreciation and exitement.  They drove all the way from Houston and back in 1 day on busses, just to see the Promise. Their church denomination originates from Syria and was founded by St. Thomas.  Their primary prayer request is the following:  "Pray for the people in the state of Kerala in south India. Many from our church are from there. 500-600 people have died due to severe flooding which is 100 times worse than Hurricane Harvey flooding in Houston".

Pray for Answer International Ministry which is promoting their child trafficing ministry each show.  Their primary reoccuring prayer request is similar to the following: "Pray that we can get the message of our ministry out to more people, and that it can become more effective".  Maybe give one of their brochures to your pastor.

We gave thanks to Rudy and wife Vicki who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.  I told Rudy that since I went to his celebration he needs to come to mine in 18 years when we celebrate our 50th anniversary.