Four days - four performances. The pace will definitely quicken as we have four performances in a row and seven over the next ten days. We also have our Team Effort kids starting their mission trips, arriving Sunday and here over the next two months. They stay for a week, help with any number of projects on the PP property, get to be in the Play and may even assist in The Holy Land. It's good to have high school and college age "missionaries" since we tend to attract an older audience and these younger people are able to have more in common with the church youth groups who come to experience The Great Passion Play.
With the more intense performance schedule of the next two months, it's hard to do a lot of the routine clean-up, maintenance, landscaping and other necessary duties, so the Team Effort kids are a big help. You never realize how much it takes to run an "operation" like this until you see it all from the perspective of doing it all. Weeds don't pick themselves, or trash bags just walk by themselves to the dumpster and I've yet to see the cast costumes parade to the washer, then hop in the dryer and hang themselves up in the correct dressing room for the next performance. It's a lot of work by not a lot of people.
It's still a joy to be part of this ministry, to tell the story of the last week of Jesus' earthly ministry, have people visit our Sacred Arts Gallery, the Bible Museum, tour our Holy Land venues and Moses' Tabernacle in the Wilderness, shop in our gift shops, eat at the buffet and concession stands and see The Christ of the Ozarks statue, 67 feet tall, in its fifty-first year--most impressive. And it all kicks into higher gear tomorrow. Five performances down with 76 to go.
One day at a time, every day a new experience, for some it's opening night, for others an encore performance, a great way to be in the presence of God and hopefully impact people in a positive manner with Christ in me, and me abandoned to Him and His call. To Him be the Glory.
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