Thank you to everyone who supported Christian Voices this morning and gave so generously to Warming Up The Homeless.
We are all so very grateful to our dear friend, Deacon Olivia (of St. Peter’s Church, Bexhill), who retires this month, for all her unfailing support over the years.
All Christian Voice are feeling thankful and blessed.
Here’s the article from the Bexhill Observer, 27th September 2019.
The article announces Christian Voices‘ new play, Gifts from God. Donations after each performance will go to Warming up the Homeless (WUTH).
Caroline Cox directs the play and has been a volunteer with WUTH for over two years. WUTH covers Hastings, St. Leonard’s, Bexhill & Eastbourne handing out hot/cold drinks, food, clothing, sleeping bags and directs people towards other organisations that that may be able to assist them further.
Christian Voices will be performing “Gifts from God” between 12th and 20th of October 2019.
Please note the change of venue for , 18th Friday October – now at The Function Room at The Pelham!
When a wealthy master trusts his fortune to his three servants whilst he has to go away, he expects them to act wisely – perhaps even make him a profit.
But will the servants make the most of what has been given to them? Do any of us?
As usual, admission is free, but any donation given at the end of each performance will be in aid of Warming Up the Homeless(WUTH).
October 2019 sees a new play from Christian Voices – Gifts from God!
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Christian Voices, the musical drama group, have raised an incredible £1,008 for Epilepsy Sussex from the performances of their play, “Justice from the Judge”.
So starts the latest article in the Bexhill Observer (14/Jun/2019). The full article can be found on the Observer website.
…or you can find the article in full here…
It was Christian Voices great pleasure to recently present £1008 to EpilepsySussex.
They have very kindly acknowledged the generosity of our audiences with the attached letter.
Just a small quote:
“Epilepsy affects about 16,000 people in Sussex alone and it can be and often is a life altering condition.”
Thank you once again to all who donated so generously.
David Marsh, who goes to St Martha’s Church, sent us these lovely words after watching Justice from the Judge.
I thought the play was excellent! I really enjoyed it! It is not easy with that story to be able to draw out all the different messages about rules, law, respect etc effectively but I thought you pitched it just right. The central themes of determination through faith in the face of adversity and our enemies and continuing to pray even if all hope looks lost, were very well delivered. I thought the actors were superb and the songs very well matched.
Great work, sir! I look forward to the next one!
As we like to get feedback on our performances we thought you’d like to read another kind review of our latest play, Justice from the Judge.
Sandy Willard of Christchurch Methodist, a Christian Voices regular, has sent us these lovely words about that performance.
I know I thanked you this morning, and said how much I enjoyed your performance but I felt I just had to write to you to say again how I felt about everything connected with this play. As you know, I always enjoy every play, but somehow today was perfection in every way.
Everybody’s diction was so clear and loud, each member knew their words, they came in on cue, each member was so well cast, you and your wife changed the scenery without fuss as and when required, and of course your writing of the story from Luke, was excellent and I particularly liked that there were bits of humour in it. It was easy to watch, and the message was there loud and clear. I liked the way emphasised reference to God and prayer was so simply dealt with, especially in the closing of the performance. As always too I enjoyed Dave’s songs and his singing with your wife and the other lady – again, so simple words, but emphasised all that was told in the acting.
It was lovely too to see your daughters there with you and I think Jamie is doing so well with the group. He tells me he has been with you for some seven years, and it’s so good to follow him through all your presentations.
I really look forward to seeing you again for your next play but I just can’t see that you will be able to better today’s – it was truly great.
Sometimes we are truly taken aback by the audience reaction to Christian Voices plays.
Oh, it’s great when people laugh or sigh in the right places and give a hearty round of applause at the end.
But it has always been an important point with Christian Voices that the performances are free to attend.
In more recent years we have started a collection at the back where people can leave whatever they feel. No lower limit and indeed not pressure to leave any donation at all. All monies collected, however, do go to local good causes.
With Justice from the Judge we decided to support Epilepsy Sussex. If you’re interested you can find out more about what they do on their website.
Well, either this cause or our magical performances hit some sort of note with our audiences as we collected an astounding £1,008!
That’s the highest ever donated at our performances and the first time we broken through the £1k mark!!
A big, big thank you to all who reached so very deep into their pockets and gave with both hands!
Poem: Gifts from God
A regular contributor, John B. knight, had once again provided a most excellent poem about one of our plays.
Thank you so much, John. A wonderfully-descriptive poem.
Posted by harlekwinblog on 16/10/2019 in Comments, News, Performances, Poems and tagged Comments, News, Performances, Plays, Poems.
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