CODE West

CODE West went really well. Attendence was down this year, but drama teams from as far away as Las Vegas came and performed. The new DVD is available with 8 drama pieces. A good mix of sign, song interpretation and this year something...Clowning with Terry Vik. The team from Vegas did Tye Tribetts, "Stand Out" and the local team did "Right Place, Right Time", by Kurt Carr. I blocked out a song interpretation to the song, "One More Round", by Barlow Girl. I think your young ladies are going to love acting out this song. Its fun and has a message to it.

We originally were asked to help with the song for a young ladies conference called, Esther in Pensacola, Fl. Anyway, it evolved into what we did with it at CODE West.

Gaylen Cantrell performed the moving monologue called Just One Touch. This is a monologue about a leper who recounts what it was like to not be touched by his family and wife. WHat it was like to walk into a market place and yell out, "Unclean". The monologue segues into the healing section of the monologue and then the sign team called, Signs and Wonders stepped in behind the monologue with the song, "Something Happens". Wow, what a great sequence to bring people to an altar experience. Ypu're going to want to put these two pieces together.

If you're needing help to organize your drama ministry to the point where you can use it throughout the whole year...let us know. We can help to make that happen. Email me at howitiller@aol.com. We are helping churches all over the US and Canada every week to move into an anointed drama ministry.


If you are a director or youth leader lookinf for new and exciting drama ministry material, please visit us at www.howitiller.com/misc.htm.

Well...it's been a while. But a lot has happened since we last talked. We recently taught a music/drama conference in Columbia, MS. I just finished a drama weekend in Sacramento, CA (Shingle Springs) and now preparing for CODE West here in the valley. Hanford, CA has played host to CODE West for 7 years in a row. It proves to be another wonderful CODE with drama teams coming in from as far away as Las Vegas. Thursday evening will feature a mix of monologues, interpretive sign and song interpretations. The CODE West 2009 DVD will be available just as soon as possible.

Next year will be our 10th anniversary here in CA and we will plan a very special week. Maybe even a master CODE...we'll see.

Pentecost Sunday is coming

Many churches don't know what to do with this Sunday. Pentecost Sunday is a very hard event to make special for many of you. There is the full blown musical, The Fire Still Falls, which deals with the Azuza Street and the earth quakes at the turn of the century, but at this point this is not an option for you as it takes a month of rehearsal and live choir and actors...seeing it is already the middle of May. So what's the option? I would do a mix of interpretive sign, song interpretation and dowel rod songs that can help bring a very powerful atmosphere to you church. To see what I'm talking about visit our site at www.howitiller.com/misc.htm. We've been doing these kinds of things for 11 years and Pastors love the options.

Father's Day is coming

Now that MOther's Day has come and gone.....by the way I hope your Mother's Day events went well for you. If we were any help, please let us know. We love to hear how our drama material is helping to make your job easier. Father's Day is coming up soon. Father's Day seems to be a little harder to make special...we have a few really good sketches that may help you acheive something special for your Father's Day this year. Please take time to visit our site at www.howitiller.com/sketches.htm for a list and brief description of the sketches that may work for you. It is our pleasure to help in any way we can.

CODE DVDs

I know that hundreds of you are waiting for the new CODE DVDs. We will release them just as soon as we can get to the editors and send out the newsletter.

This year we are expecting to offer:
1. CODE West 2009
2. CODE Indiana 2009
3. CODE East 2009
4. Christmas CODE 2009

If you haven't had a chance to peruse any CODE DVDs...go to www.howitiller.com/misc.htm. Your youth are going to love this!!

Mother's Day

I hope your Mother's Day went well. We did a song interpretation to "Handful of Weeds" as sung by Sherri Easter. Very country, but works well for Mother's Day and other woman's events.

If you are looking for sketches for Father's Day, please visit our site at www.howitiller.com/sketches.htm. We have many wonderful comedies as well as serious sketches that work for Father's Day and men's events.

Christmas CODEs

I know it's only May, but are establishing a new cocept in CODE events. We tried this concept with Easter and it worked very well. Visit www.dramacode.com to read more about the concept. It's a two day conference where you (the director) and an assistant come to learn the entire Christmas program. You leave with your Christmas play including music, blocking, staging ideas, note book, script, DVDs and CDs all in one complete package. It worked so well with Easter that we are offering it again using Christmas. You can register on line. Please let me know if you have any questions. You can also reach us at howitiller@aol.com.