Stockton, California

Wow! What a week. I flew home from Anderson, SC. on American airlines at 6:00am Monday. Arrived in Omaha at 9:00am and spent the day with my family...looked at houses as we are in the market. Repacked Monday night and flew to Sacramento, CA...drove an hour to where I am until Sunday night, when I fly back to OMaha. I'm working with youth all this week and doing drama services in English and Spanish. Father's Day should prove to be an exciting day for me doing English and Spanish. I'll let you know how is goes.

CODE East

CODE East was a great success. It was the first CODE hosted in Anderson, South Carolina. 70 registered from Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and even Louisiana. Drama teams from these regions performed Thursday and Friday night. Some performed sign language songs, some dowel rod, illusion, monologue, and comedy. I ended the Thursday evening night with my signature piece called, "Letting Go". It's a compilation of my mother's struggle with Alzheimers and life's main events where we learn to let go. Friday night was high lighted by the gospel stomp and segue into The Presence of the Lord is Here. If you haven't performed that song yet...your drama team is missing out. Visit our site at howitiller.com. You can read more about CODE at dramacode.com.

CODE East

We're here in Anderson, SC preparing for the first CODE of the year. 90 to 100 hundred are registering for a three day all out drama camp/conference. Registrants from South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and as far away as Virginia are coming to learn the process of drama evangelism...not just the technical and theatrical elements of drama. Drama teams will perform dowel rod songs, sign language interpretation and interpretive movement as well as traditional dialogued sketches. Watch for pictures on this conference on the our website after this week end. We are planning a DVD or 2 to be available soon. If you have any questions about CODE please visit the CODE site at dramacode.com.

Global impact

We've been in the drama ministry for many years and there's no telling what chain reactions have been set in force. I was perusing youtube yesterday and typed in christian drama...many of the video presentations of dowel rods were actually ours. Drama teams who have bought DVDs from our site are getting out on the street and using it outside the four walls of the church. Street drama is catching on everywhere. If you want to get started in your own drama ministry...visit our site at howitiller.com. It's just waiting to happen.

First CODE of the year

Anderson, South Carolina gets the first CODE of the year. Conference Of Drama Evangelism is in it's seventh year. The first one started in San Diego, California and has now expanded to as many as nine conferences. This year we will be coordinating CODEs from the east coast to the west. Some of our clinicians are Johnny Aoki from Los Angeles, Eric Roemheld from LA (A scene set designer and builder)who works for Warner Bros. and Universal Studios. He has worked on such movies like Delgado, Spiderman, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and many more. Terry Vik who has a formal education in theater...he is also a mime and full time dramatist...teaches directing and advanced acting.

These events are cutting-edge and one of a kind. Regional drama teams register from all over the region and perform at night. Classes and workshops are conducted during the day.

Tampa trip just last week

I'm getting ready to coordinate street ministry in Tampa, Florida later in the year, but to do so you have to secure permits. BTW If you are interested in knowing what it takes to do street theater, visit - http://howitiller.com. You'll find a book called Dinner Drama&Street Drama. Anyway, so we've secured the permits and I'll have a team performing at Channelside. It's a pedestrian mall two blocks from the Downtown Tampa arena and a block away from the Florida Aquarium. There should be a lot to do on our down time. A huge crusie ship (I think it was Carnival) was docked there the day I visited the site. The cruise line owns the Channelside mall, but shares the property with the mall management during the week days. Some really nice restaurants and shops are are located right at Channelside. Anyway, there is a stage setting in the middle of the mall and this is where we will be performing. Right now we hoping to schedule the stage from 11:00 to 2:oo (the lunch hours) September 26-28.

We're also going to be on the campus of the University of South Florida. There is a staged area right outside of the Marshall Center where we'll be performing on Saturday September 29th.

CODE Conference of Drama Evangelism

If you've been wanting to learn the Christian drama process. Check out an awesome website at howitiller.com and dramacode.com. This year we will be in Anderson, SC., Hanford, CA., Owensville, IN., Webster (Houston), TX., Odessa, TX., Gilbert, LA., and more on the way.

We will be teaching every aspect of theater:
Acting
Directing
Mime
Stage Combat
Monologue
Sing Interpretation
Sign Language
Improvisation
Stage Design
Lighting
Prop Building
and some of the CODEs will feature clinicians that specialize in Black Light Puppetry, Clowning and more.