Post by Chad Houck, GivMusic Blog Contributor: Chad is the co-founder and director of World Wins International.  You can follow Chad and his family on their travels at http://share5.org.

I was recently reading a blog post from a gentleman named Lee Bezotte.  He was describing an experience that he recently had (with his six year old son in tow) that regretfully is both symbolic of a growing tendency in our society and an unfortunate consequence of our own insecurities combined with a slightly skewed view of reality.

In his post, he mentioned visiting a handful of churches in his community on a weekday with the intent of inviting the pastors and staff to a workshop on social media.  Stepping out of the social web space and into the physical world, he was shocked at how inaccessible these churches really were.  Some were locked down and empty mid-week, with nary a person to be found.  The most poignant, however, was the church that had grown so large, so popular, and possibly so controversial in its community that the staff “greeted” them… from behind a wall of bulletproof glass.

Like so many things in life can, reading his post has caused me to have a recently heightened awareness of my own speech and actions.  Last month, for instance, my family and I had committed to walk in the shoes of, or more accurately the lack of shoes of another, during a local TOMS Day Without Shoes event. The day of the event came, and we were surprised by the unseasonably cold 44-degree, rainy weather which caused the turnout to be much lower than we anticipated.  I remember considering whether or not this small gathering could really make a difference to anyone, and whether my family and I should just “pack it in.”  My answer came in the form of a small, enthusiastic group of young students.  Barefoot and smiling, they gleefully marched out into the cold and rain to chant “surrender your shoes” to the unassuming downtown businessmen we passed by on our march.  These young people were willing to undergo a little discomfort on behalf of children they likely will never meet so that others might hear their story . More importantly, they simply did what they said they would do.   Chalk up one more point for third graders.

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Nashville, TN – Good news for fans of APOSTLES OF COMEDY! They’re back on the road with an all new show that promises to be a hilarious continuation of the 2009 tour. You can bet that AOC tickets are going to be a big item and with only 4 shows to kick off the 2010 tour tickets will go fast. Critics and audiences agree that the 2008 and 2009 Apostles of Comedy tours were two of the biggest comedy shows out there. Answering the call for premium “Christian” entertainment, the Apostles of Comedy will take the stage again with Award – Winning Jeff Allen – Showtime, Comedy Central, VH1 , Anthony Griffith – Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Tonight Show, HBO, Co medy Central, The Bernie Mac Show, new to the show are Daren Streblow – tapped as one of the funniest clean comedians on the road today, Greg Lee – The George Lopez Show, The District, Interviewing God. Apostles of Comedy’s expanding success is parallel with the enormous need for good clean comedy that is faith-based with a meaningful message.

Apostles of Comedy; a company founded in 2007 by executive producer Lenny Sisselman, who has over 30 years in the business producing big act comedy shows, and veteran filmmaker and President of Epiphany Productions, Mitchell Galin.  Acknowledging what they felt was a void in the marketplace, Sisselman and Galin looked to create a world class comedy brand that the whole family could enjoy together.  In the summer of 2007, they produced the first full length Christian Comedy feature. The film featured Jeff Allen, Brad Stine, Anthony Griffith and Ron Pearson and combined live performances with documentary footage.  Apostles of Comedy began touring in the fall of 2008.

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