Every year, Katie Luse writes a fresh script to introduce children to Jesus at summer camps all over the northeastern U.S. This year, the show is themed around God as the Author. Hear what inspired Katie to follow this structure to tell the Gospel story this summer. Darell and Drew start things off talking about how different the "Bedsheet Jesus" productions they witnessed at camp were from today's polished theatrical presentation. Jesus Theater draws on popular music to connect children to the story of Christ and requires only simple costumes, props and set design.

Our platform glitched on Darell’s recording for the first 25 minutes with no backup. You miss out on his story about Bill teaching him to play a brass instrument, while he was Bill’s pastor at the Boston Kroc Center, and a hilarious recent story about a 12-year-old girl's opinion of Darell's skill playing a horn.

2:00 When did someone first put an instrument in your hands?

9 years old started on baritone, brother (8) started on cornet. They were both taught by Brigadier DaCosta.

6:00 Bill was introduced to Christ and music at the same time.

11:00 Bill received discipleship as well as musical training through The Salvation Army. He talks about key mentors that he had in his life, namely Lt. Colonel William Harvey, Colonel H. Douglas Lowman, Captain (now Commissioner) Jim Knaggs, Corps Sergeant Major Edward Gooding, who some call the Black William Booth

16:00 “My father has never been a part of my life.” -Bill

18:00 Drew and Bill share a heritage of alcoholism and addiction in their families.

22:00 Darell joins the podcast to talk about seeing Darell mentor others and the male mentors he encountered in his journey.

25:00 Bill & Valencia’s move to Boston

30:30 Bill’s second career in music therapy.

32:00 Bill felt he needed more professional education to augment the spiritual authority and wisdom he had.

34:00 How Bill personally felt ministered to, by music, in powerful Spirit-led music.

41:00 Darell asks Bill about his passions outside of music

43:00 “This is what God meant for me. Performing has never been a high passion, it’s always been teaching.”

44:45 Bill talks about who had a passion for music in his family.

46:00 The Pulse

What are you watching?

 Stranger Things

Bill’s second cousin, Spike Jordan, had a film debut at this year's Tribeca Film Festival,.

Game Change Game is about the NBA season in the bubble, dealing with COVID and then the racial unrest following the killing of George Floyd.

Listening to

Bill Jessica Williams - Jazz pianist

Drew Reclaimed podcast – ABC News about Emmitt Till and Mamie Till-Mobley

Darell Batman Unburied 

Reading

Bill Act Like Men by James McDonald

Battle Cry: Waging and Winning the War Within by Jason Wilson 

Drew Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker – 12 children, six of them had schizophrenia

Darell Incident reports – Looking for a book on evangelism for an upcoming evangelism

Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations by Jimmy Scroggins, Steve Wright, Bennett Leslee

God saying

Bill Trust my wisdom and my permissive will for some of the challenges you have to go through.

Drew Strategic investments

Darell Justice and mercy

Creating

Darell Night lights and a war hammer

Bill Editing and organizing an elder client’s music for publishing

Drew Sydney’s graduation slideshow

On what turned out to be an 11-hour road trip from Boston to DC, Riley and Drew cover a wide range of topics—mechanical engineering, musical theater and her hopes of a career in themed entertainment. Drew tries out his Mr. T impersonation.

Reading

R Eye of the World – Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

D The Highway Quartet by CJ Box 

Listening

R Abba

D Godfellas pod

Watching

Stranger Things [We didn’t watch it in the car on the way to DC]

Brittany Parks discovered her love for the outdoors in Flemington, NJ. Then John Copeland inspired her to pick up a guitar. Today, she is a singer/songwriter/worship leader who loves to inspire others to get outside and increase representation of women of color within guitar worship leading circles. We talked wedge monitors vs. in-ears. This is can't miss stuff. She leads with Unbound, with her ride or die friends, Alexa and Emily, and on her own. You'll have to listen to the episode to find out which situation she likes most. 

In this special crossover episode, Drew is the guest on the Godfellas Podcast with Zach and Hannah Smith and Mitch Duperree. Godfellas breaks down Christian media from McGee & Me to Veggie Tales to the Last Temptation of Christ. In this episode, we deep dive on the 1973 film version of Jesus Christ Superstar. We had a blast and think you will too!

If you like what you hear, check out Godfellas wherever you get your podcasts or https://reelboyspodcasts.com/godfellas

Drew's college buddy and fellow member of Out of the Blue talks about his journey as a Cantor and future Rabbi. Hazzan Steven Walvick talks about his role with his congregation at the East Northport Jewish Center. 

This episode, The Pulse gets pretty wild. Enjoy the ride!

Captain Nate Hinzman: well-coiffed, kindhearted, self-deprecating. You'll want to hear how this thoughtful preacher prepares for Sunday worship.

Darell and Nate talk shop about their respective large-scale youth retreats, known in The Salvation Army as Youth Councils

At the beginning of this podcast, i may have shot us forward in time by a decade. It was a long Monday and I was tired.

THE PULSE

Listening to

Reading

Drew didn't walk all that closely with the Lord during his college days. The theme at this Moth StorySlam was Awards. Did Drew win an award for streaking? Not exactly.

In this episode, camp director, worship leader, and master storyteller John Copeland uses a truly ridiculous story from his life at camp to illustrate how distracted we can be as we enter into worship. Recorded at the Worship Arts Convocation, March 4-6, 2022 at the Ladore Complex in lovely, downtown Waymart, PA.

The Pulse

Watching

Darell – The Last Kingdom on Netflix

Listening to

DH – Blackout from QCode podcasts

Reading

DH – Old sermons

Growing up, Carol Dilly wasn't the star of her high school musicals. She was "way in the back, in the chorus." An opportunity opened up in her college years that would change everything. Though she wasn't a devout Christian at the time, Carol says looking back, she saw that God was opening a series of doors. When one show or tour was winding down, a door opened, eventually onto the biggest stage on earth. When the time came, God opened a door to theater and arts ministries within The Salvation Army that Carol had never imagined, let alone seen. As she nears another transition, she is looking back on over tow decades of ministry and a lifetime of God's faithfulness to her and her family. 

“When God led me through that door 22 years ago, I had never seen theater in church, never seen dance at church. All I knew was that He wanted me to walk through the door.”