Eric Liddell Joins the Global Hymn Sing

Keith and Kristyn Getty have invited the world to a Global Hymn Sing this Sunday, February 25, 2018.

The hymn they've chosen is "Jesus Will Reign," which Eric Liddell led a crowd in singing just before boarding the train which started his trek to China. His Olympic gold and bronze medals, not to mention his world record in the 400m, opened up many prestigious offers in Europe and the U.S. But he left it all behind to serve the Chinese as a teacher, track coach, and missionary for the rest of his short life.

I've been portraying Liddell since 2004 in my one-man play Beyond the Chariots, and I planned to dramatize Liddell singing "Jesus Shall Reign" in a follow-up film to Chariots of Fire, but we were beat to the finish line.

I just found out about the Global Hymn Sing, so I thought the best way to dramatize the event, given the short time constraint, would be to portray him reflecting on that event at a point of his life that gives us a peek into the life he sacrificially chose.

You can download this video to play at your church at www.RichDrama.com/EricLiddellHymnSing this Sunday, or at any upcoming service. Permission has been granted from copyright holders on this arrangement.

Be sure to register for the hymn sing, so you and/or your church can be added to the map.

If your church doesn't participate in the Global Hymn Sing, join me Sunday, February 25, at 5pm Eastern, and I'll do a Facebook Live hymn sing. I'll say a bit more about my connection to the story, and then we'll all sing with an Olympic hero well before the closing ceremonies to the Pyeongchang Olympics begin in the Eastern Time Zone, and hopefully in time for you to get to an evening service. It will broadcast from www.Facebook.com/RichSwingle, but if we're not Facebook Friends, I'll post it at www.Facebook.com/RichDrama by 5:15pm Eastern.

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See the rest of Olympic champion Eric Liddell's Chariots of Fire story in Beyond the Chariots. Watch it online and book a live performance.

Henry Box Brown answers a 20-year prayer request

A prayer of my heart twenty years ago is about to be answered!

I heard about the Christian Cultural Center, the largest church in New York City and one of the largest independent churches in the US, shortly after moving here in 1993. As I started to develop my own one-man plays it was on my heart to perform there some day.

I play an abolitionist in Henry Box Brown, a musical that tells the story of a slave who ships himself in a box from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia and freedom in 1848. Though it's not one of my one-man plays, this musical is answering my prayer of two decades, because we'll be performing at CCC three times:

February 10, 8 AM and 10:30 AM
20-minute version
Directions at www.CCCInfo.org, where you can live-stream the 10:30 AM Eastern service.

February 15, 10-1pm
Full musical
Click here to register (first come first registered)

Hope you can see this miraculous production live or online!

You can see my Facebook Live announcement by clicking here.

Since recording that registrations were opened for the performance on February 15, and you can find all the details on this page, which you can find at www.RichDrama.com/HenryBoxBrown.

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Another reason I'm excited to be a part of Henry Box Brown is that I've been performing my own one-man play about an abolitionist since 1995. A Clear Leading tells the story of John Woolman, a Quaker who spoke against slavery a century before our Civil War.