Kingdom Business!

The tour continues! Last night was the 6th performance of the "Word Made Fresh". This is a year long tour that I have embarked on in partnership with Urban Saints. It is a one man show which I have written and I portray 14 men from the Bible. 7 from the Old Testament and 7 from the New Teastament and I get to wear a frock! A Biblical frock, if it was any other kind of frock I would also be portraying some women from the Bible, but I don't think that would go down very well, at all, ever. The tour has been going really well, I have been to Taunton, Lemmington Spa, Letchworth, Romford, Harpenden, and last night I was at the opening night of the "Kingdom Business" conference at the Bethel Convention Centre in West Bromwich. I really enjoyed being in a big venue with a lot of people, it "lifted" me somewhat and we had great fun. There were about 800 people there by the end, I say by the end, because being the opening night of a conference, with people travelling in from all over the country, coach loads of people kept coming in during the show! It got a little distracting, but I don't think it marred the enjoyment of anyone. I did have a bit of a panic just a couple of minutes before going on stage though. My mike sort of collapsed on the floor while I was in my dressing room. Yes, dressing room, I had a dressing room with sink and guess what? A fruit platter! I was given a fruit platter! I've never been so excited, I felt like I was at Live Aid or 8...or whatever. My own fruit platter! So back to the mike, which was depressing me with it's mangled position on the floor, so I decide to enter the auditorium so I can speak to one of the nice sound chaps, and one comes down to see me fairly quickly. But we had to go out of the auditorium to be able to communicate. You'd have thought I could have put a mike on myself but as the performance was to be recorded and filmed and the production team had to check my glass for my perfectly proportioned drink of ribena, which I sip, or gulp down, as the need may be between monologues, so that it would look right on camera, I thought I'd better check my mike! So, it was all sorted. But I turned round and a lovely lady wouldn't let me back into the auditorium! Because I didn't have my, "Kingdom Business" id tag on which was on the t-shirt I had arrived in! I was now in my Biblical frock, outside the auditorium, due to be going onstage in 2 minutes! They didn't have colourful laminated badges in the times of Noah and Moses, you see! I expressed this as lovingly and as urgently as I could and after a quick walkie talkie conference I was allowed in, and all was well! It was a great night and the hospitality of the all the people involved with the conference, their kindness and true servant hearts really made a difference and made us feel at home, even though, we weren't! After the show there was great feedback, and a little boy came up to me and handed me a drawing he had done of me! Which was touching and sweet and very scarey (I am eating healthily, I am!) So thank you, New Testament Church of God! You rocked!