Busy, busy, busy! Like we said in last month’s update, we performed for the grand re-opening of the Promise Shop Christian bookstore here in Fergus and the next day we were at the German Heritage Festival at Trinity. Both of those performances were “mash-ups” of past songs, all strung together with some custom scripts fit for the occasion. While we’ve enjoyed putting those programs together, there’s something bigger that we’re even more excited about coming just around the corner…
If you were to scan back through past updates from WAASUP, you’d notice that there’s been mention of a new production being in the works since last June or so. As a group, we’ve found that being in parades and putting on workshops and performing for children’s messages, surprise birthday parties, bookstores, and festivals takes a lot of time! Busy though we were, we were actually working slowly and steadily on the planning and groundwork for this new production, Stand Firm, and we are now happy to announce that one of the new songs is coming together nicely as props and costumes are being designed and built, probably as you read! It’s our goal to have this new song, “Build Your House Upon the Rock”, a sort of old rock-n-roll song sung by a very familiar-looking character, ready for our next performance.
What is that next performance? We’re glad you asked! We will be at Morning Son Christian school here in town for their fall festival on October 24th. The way we understand it, we’ll be doing 4 shows between 5:30 and 7:30 that festival-going kids can come watch for a certain number of tickets. We always love these chances to reach out to our own community and we’re just hoping our song is ready in time!
Once we’re done with that performance, we’re planning on really putting our nose to the grindstone in November to try and have Stand Firm ready for Christmastime performances. Because we wanted to have a non-seasonal production, Stand Firm won’t be Christmas-themed, but we think our holiday hosts will enjoy it nonetheless. We already have one date lined up at Lutheran Island Camp for their Christmas dinners (Sat., Dec. 20th).
We’d like to take this paragraph to thank those who have recently made donations to our ministry. Obviously, in putting this production together, we come across a lot of “up front” expenses with all the prop materials, set pieces, costumes, and puppets that we need to just get the show off the ground. We’re also stepping into some new territory with this production as we look into blacklights and other lights and “special effects” that we haven’t used before. So thank you again for your much appreciated and well-utilized gifts!
In Him,
-The WAASUP Team