Southampton Passion Blog

Wow... two blogs in two days - I must be getting the hang of this!

Anyway - I met with the Bishop of Winchester last night, Michael Scott-Joynt to discuss the Passion and see if he would act as the Patron for the project. We had a good time together and I am now privileged to announce that Bishop Michael is now the Patron for the Southampton Passion. He will seek to offer his wisdom and experience to us as we progress with the project and he will be praying for the Passion over the next 18 months, and beyond. Bishop Michael was the Patron for the Winchester Passion in 2008 and so is able to offer us guidance from his experience of that great event.

It is a real encouragement to me to have someone of his stature and experience supporting the vision and this is another important step on the journey for us.

Wow... that was all I could say last night when I heard the music for the first song that Nathan has written for the Passion!

It is incredible and will be an amazing opening number for the production - it is so alive and vibrant and the emotions in it are just perfect. We still need to work on a few lyrics but people, you're in for a musical treat when you get to hear this... it's great!!!

Nathan - you're a musical genius and I have complete confidence in you to produce an incredible musical score for the Passion. Thanks for helping to bring the vision alive! I can't stop humming the tune already!!!

Hi everyone... I had a great meeting yesterday with Jasmine Farano - a very talented and passionate young dancer and choreographer who has a real desire to use her abilities to glorify God. She contacted us about the Passion and was keen to be involved and offer her talents and time to the project so I am now pleased, and excited to announce that Jasmine is our 'official' choreographer for the Passion!!! She will start to build a dance team and get those creative juices flowing so that we can incorporate some very cool moves into the production. Watch this space for news about being part of the dance team and welcome aboard Jasmine!

Well, tonight saw the first coming together of the project management team so far and it was a really great evening! We all got to find out a bit more about eachother and then set some targets and dates for our next meeting.

For me personally it was a slightly strange evening - having carried the vision for the Passion by myself for a while it was bizarre to now be sat at a meeting where a whole team of people were taking ownership of different aspects of the project... and I wasn't even running the meeting. Al the project co-ordinator, did a great job of steering our time together and I just sat back and marvelled at how God had bought together such a great group of people, for such as time as this, to bring this vision alive. We still need more people who will step up and join us to lead various aspects of the project, so please visit the get involved page to see if you could be one of those people!

I'm meeting with the Bishop of Winchester next week to discuss his support of the project, so watch this space for updates on that and anything else exciting that may happen over the next few days! Also I want to start the search to find the right person to direct the Passion production - I have written the play, and after much prayer and discussion with others I believe it is right for me to consider playing the role of Jesus on the night, so we need to find someone who will direct for us. Please get in touch if you would be interested in finding out more about this.

Until next time... God bless!