Global Village Facebook

A number of the people who joined us for Global Village are on facebook. I am very pleased about that as it means I still have a connection with them. They are all part of the OM family.  I am putting the e version of my book, "Gods Kaleidoscope" on social media and where help is offered, I accept it.  Next year I am really going to push the printed version when it comes out.

Friends 1st buyer beware a follow up

Concerning Friends 1st, I got a letter asking me to re join which I would never do considering I parted with money to fulfill the contract they tie you into to get out quickly.  Last year they offered a package that somehow they thought I just had to have to learn all about dating and relationships and what to do. It cost a few hundred pounds.  When they sent the letter asking me to rejoin that same package would have been available to me without any further charge.

That means, some people probably forked out hundreds of pounds for it, and now those who did not buy it, who decide to rejoin can get exactly the same thing for nothing.  If I had forked out hundreds of pounds for it, I would be furious.

more people

More people have arrived for Global Village today. Others have gone.  It has been an exciting project.

Global Village, in the street

I have done one evening, one day and one afternoon as a character in Global Village. I played a refugee twice and the shop keeper once.  It is an interesting experience.  When people are asked why they believe in Jesus, they struggle to answer. 

There were people among the visitors whom I knew, but I had do stay in character. One I had not seen for some years, Veronique.  It was good to see her and today I sent her a message on facebook

From the Global Village experience, I have to conclude that the British Church has to learn how to communicate to the people in a fashion they understand.  We use words like, "Righteousness", but people do not understand what that means.

While playing the refugee,  a real refugee from Congo came and she had a big smile. She had suffered.  She had burns on her arm and neck.  She escaped from Congo to Angola and then to Scotland where the Scottish police told her to go to London to seek asylum which she successfully did.  I was very humbled by that.

On a personal level, I find it great to work with other OMers serving in other parts of the country and who themselves come from other countries.  I feel I have a good relationship with them and more so with two in particular.  One of them works at the shelter in Amsterdam where I also worked.

Another is a man from Bulgaria who played the muslim

We also have a young lady from Moldova and I think her accent really suits the parts she is playing.

It is wonderful to work with one of my Scottish Colleques.

All in all, I have enjoyed the experience.  We are all learning from it.

I have been on the Global Village Experience

The Global Village experience will be good.  It starts with being given a conversation stacker, then we were blind folded and taken into a dark room we could not get out of until we felt round it and found things in the room.  We had to leave someone handcuffed in there, then we were in a lovely room with a banquenting table, then we were in a room with puzzles and finally we were in the street.  The whole experience is for making people think.  I trust it will.

dry run

I am going on the Global Village dry run this afternoon.  We have a meeting at 12 for those who will be performing and going on the dry run. I will be doing both.  This will be a short, but interesting experience to see what the set and performances are like.  I have never done anything unscripted before, so Friday of this week and the following two nights will be an interesting experience.

The girl I met at the station last night is dutch and she has an advert on the back of her jacket about the 40th anniversary of the shelter in Amsterdam.  I worked there myself for a short time.

Global Village goes live tomorrow night.  All that hard work other people have put in building the set should pay off.

Global Village

Global village, the set has taken shape in the Gym and we are going live with it next week.  This will be a new experience for all of us.  I look forward to it.  I have never done an unscripted three hour performance before.  Also, I trust that those who come to see it will be deeply touched and want to enter into further service for God.