My involvement in Drama.

I became interested in drama years ago while still living in California. I can remember always being excited when the Western District Drama Tour Team would come through during the summer and perform a moving evangelistic drama. I can also remember being involved in our churches production of "Messiah" and loving every minute of it. Then I moved to Arkansas and it was a while before I really thought about Drama again. Then about 4 or so years ago some girls from Texas came to our church in Crossett and spent a weekend teaching the majority of our choir dramatic sign language. We spent Friday night and all day Saturday learning 5 beautiful songs in sign language. Then we performed them on Sunday morning. Sunday morning's service was awesome. I can remember watching people weep as one group signed "Here I am to worship" Then we all signed Jesus I love You and that instantly became my favorite song for sign language and is still at the top of my list. I became interested in learning more and mroe about sign language. I got online and found a wonderful website with video clips of all kinds of words in sign language. I went to work learning songs. I taught all of them to myself. It was about a year and a half or more before I was actually able to do anything with them. I moved from Crossett to Monticello and there I heard the wonderful news that our church had a sign team!! My very first Sunday there I was at sign practice and signing for our very next performance. From then on I have been highly involved in drama. Two Christmas' ago I wrote a drama called "Healing Hands" and we performed it. We put together a few other shorter pieces and I've written a few things that I haven't used yet. This Easter I wrote another drama titled "Through the Eyes of Mercy" It went so awesome!! I'm currently working on two more pieces one will be titled "A place called Hope" and the other doesn't have a title yet. Anyway here lately I've been feeling an even stronger call to become involved in drama as a ministry. I tell the girls on our drama team all the time that it's not about how much we entertain our audience but are we entertaining the presence of God. We don't just want to move the emotions of our audience we want to stir their souls! I have no idea where this journey will take me but I'm very excited about all that God has in store for me as I work for his kingdom. Please keep me in your prayers as I follow God's plan for my life!

God Bless,

Yvonne