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.
Training Videos
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
- Fog machines and you
- Pre-show and sponsors
Minya, Egypt
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.
¡Hola Venezuela!
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.