Mime 4 Jesus - Visiting Rockaway

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set the example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. I Timothy 4:12

Jun. 29, 2008

Visiting Rockaway

Ah, so our last presentation. There is much to be told. We presented in Rockaway Beach at the 5th anniversary celebration for an organization called Bronze Wall Ministries, that works specifically with the RB folks. No, I don’t have any idea what they do. The last time we were in Rockaway I sprained my ankle, an injury which I am still very, very slowly recovering for. I’m so ready to be done with it! The time before that we were there for the Christmas parade and then we presented several songs (some thrown together on the spur of the moment) during a dinner.

We had a few problems with some people on the team (who shall remain nameless) talking while in face. OK, so I did it too, a little. After the kids noticed us we did our best to stop, but we hadn’t been very disciplined in that area so it was a little difficult.

Apparently this was a greater problem than we realized. When we got to Rockaway to present this time, a girl came up to me and told me that she’d seen me talking at Christmas, along with “that little boy and a tall guy.” She STILL remembered, from six months ago! This hampered our witness significantly, as any who had seen us talking – or thought they had – didn’t stick around to watch very long. We had some problems with people talking this time too. It became quite the nightmare as Katie and I tried to stop those who kept forgetting that they couldn’t talk – or that whispering was OK. Some people saw us talking; some people thought they did, and if they fell into either of those categories, they immediately lost all respect for us (and, assumedly, our message). It was a little discouraging.

The presentation itself was fun too. It was sweltering hot, but thankfully we were presenting under a pavilion. There was a fine dust all over the floor of the pavilion, however, which made it interesting for anyone who had to fall or kneel on the floor (which was a category that everybody fell into at one time or another). Our first lineup was as follows:

Larger Than Life
Jesus Real Loud
2 Sets
Forgiven
Courtroom

2nd Set:
Gifter
In the Light
Via
End
Champion

Four of those had been choreographed at training camp. All of those had to be choreographed/rechoreographed without our main guy, who is (was) in Nicaragua on a mission trip. And we did them all with Jorge and Simona, who don’t know some of the songs. I was actually very impressed with the speed with which we got them done – it took us less than two hours to put together and polish all of them (“polish” being a relative term).

For Jesus Real Loud, we did something fun with Jorge and Simona, who had never been in the song before. Simona was a celebrity – something she excelled in (she’s amazing at characterization) – and Jorge was a bodyguard. Just picture that intimidating frame with his arms folded, glaring at the main character. Yep, it was pretty awesome, not to mention hilarious.

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