The Show Must Go On

In 2024 we weren't able to produce our annual Christmas production due to a lack of funds. We had laid some of our employees off and reduced the remaining salaried employees income earlier that year and, even through we were sure we could get the sponsorship for the production, we felt it just wasn't the right thing to do. 

In 2023 we hosted our largest production ever with over 18,000 in attendance and nearly 1,000 responding to the gospel. When making the decision to put the event back on the calendar for 2025, we wondered how much momentum we lost not doing the show in '24. We decided to come back with just one weekend, featuring seven shows verses the two-weekend/twelve shows we did in '23. We felt like if we drew an attendance of 10,000 or more it would be a clear indicator that there is still a big demand for the show. Man were we ever right about that! The show drew in over 12,000 people with over 1,200 responding to the gospel! We had to turn people away at every show and heard from people again and again how thankful they were that we did the production again! 

I am ever-indebted to Marshal Hunter for helping me build this show over the past decade! Marshal is stepping off the team in January to pursue building a production company and we are going to really miss him. He has been such an incredible friend and partner in ministry for many years and we are incredibly grateful for his faithful service to the Kingdom of God. 

Marshal's assistant for the past ten years has been one of our Leadership College alumni, Grant Robin. He is an incredibly gifted young man with impeccable character and is completely bought in to our mission, vision and values. He will be taking over as our new Creative Director on the Lead Team. I have always witnessed proof of the reality that God doesn't create void, He fills it, but I've never seen it proved more than this transition! I am so grateful!