The Philippines has been on our hearts for many years. We are so excited to announce that a new team in Iligan City has signed an agreement to produce for “He’s Alive!” for 2022. As we learn to operate in these days of restricted travel, in a first for our ministry, we welcomed our new friends in the Philippines into the family over Zoom. Come along with us and meet the new team.
Last year we began a journey to take what we have in our ministry manuals and create videos to help train our next generation of host cities to present “He’s Alive!” With another season stymied in spring of 2021 due to the continuing COVID-19 restrictions, our video production plans were put on pause as well.
Before you can take the stage, you have to find one. So to help our new host communities select their venue, we walked through the process and pointed out some of the unique considerations to take into account when choosing a place to host the Passion Play.
With a new season of production on the horizon we are looking forward to taking our cameras behind the scenes to help train our new friends in Iligan City, Philippines and beyond.
Here is the list of videos that we will be gathering footage for and producing as we head into the 2022 season:
How to select a board
How to hold a meeting
Ministry checklist and filling out leadership team
Scheduling the season
Looking for a venue
Planning a set for that venue
Props overview
Crosses and cross base construction
How to put a cross up
Casting the play
Goals for each block
Behind the characters: who’s sandals are you stepping into?
How to run a rehearsal
How to do a partial and full run through
How to run a dress rehearsal
How to run a technical rehearsal
Costumes overview
Disciple costumes
Crowd Costumes
Sanhedrin Costumes
Roman Costumes
Front of house
Getting the word out
Altar call and response team
Special effects makeup
Lighting scene by scene
Props scene by scene
Micing the show
Back stage and scene changes
Director notes: who is on stage and how to make transitions
During Holy week, 2018 we were pleased to have a friend with us from out of town. Way out of town in fact: Minya Egypt!
Victor Habib, was making the rounds between our Denver and Four Corners presentations of the Passion Play He’s Alive. He was taking a look under the hood and behind the scenes in preparation for training a team in his hometown. While visiting the States we signed an agreement to produce the ministry in Minya.
Following his visit to the US Victor went home and assembled an outstanding team that went on to stage our very first Arabic presentation of He’s Alive the Passion Play in October of 2019. More than 1,000 people attended this outdoor event. We were blessed to be there and witness this presentation. In the midst of great opposition there are also so many great opportunities to share the good news of Jesus Christ in this part of the world.
March 23rd and 24th, 2018 the Passion Play of Barquisimeto, Venezuela hosted their premier presentations of He’s Alive. This effort represented PPMI’s first opportunity to partner with the body of Christ in South America. It came at a time when the country of Venezuela was experiencing extreme political, social and economic turmoil. Their national elections were held less than a month following this presentation.
The Venezuelan state orchestra accompanied 150 actors in staging the Passion Play. A full length video along with behind the scenes interviews with a number of actors and attendees can be seen on the team’s Instagram.
