Keep It Moving!

One of the most irritating parts of many plays and drama events are the transitions. These may be scene changes or one group preparing after a different group finishes a presentation.

Your audience wants to see as tight a presentation as possible. You've worked hard to present a sign language piece or song interpretation with acting or dowel rods and the audience is responding as desired. They are worshipping and God is touching lives. Then we have to wait while the signers walk off the platform and the next song is set up or the choir files in. How frustrating!

Often churches will have an emcee step into the program and speak to bridge the gap. Still frustrating. You have advertized this as a drama and/or music event. Don't force us to listen to the same person come up between EVERY single piece! Save that person for the opening prayer and altar call. If your presentations have been prayerfully prepared then the emcees are doing your evening service more harm than good.

There is no reason that each piece should not flow from one piece to the next with no interruptions other than the worship of the audience. But this takes planning. Where do the microphones need to be placed? What door does each group enter or exit from? Are props for the acting pieces in convenient and accessible places?

Practice moving one group off and the next on. The effort will be well worth it. This way each piece will build off the previous and as the evening concludes there will be a powerful move of the Spirit!