I just completed my first Upward Award Night of the year. This event was held in Dover, TN. We had a gymnasium full of families present. This is the first of many of these events I’ll be doing over the next several months.

In case you don’t understand my enthusiasm for Upward, check out this excerpt from an email I just received.

This is our first year to host Upward and we had an amazing response. We closed our registration because we ran out of gym time. We have 262 children in our league and only 81 of them go to our church. We have our gym scheduled for the Awards Night and we plan on setting up 600 chairs.

We are very excited about how God is going to use this ministry in our church and our community! I will be talking with you later as we get closer to time to plan and discuss the Awards Night.

Upward is an amazing program, both as an outreach and a way to get church members involved in ministry. If you aren’t familiar with Upward, you should learn more.

I’ve decided to begin posting video clips from time to time of some of my live performances. To begin with, here’s a video from a performance in a girls’ school in south India.

Last year, I spent nearly two weeks performing in the Philippines. This spring, I’ll be returning for a longer trip. I’ll be staying about six weeks, partnering with Missionaries to Asia.

I’ll be performing at a national conference on the island of Cebu. I also will travel across the country performing at youth camps.

This will be my longest overseas trip. My previous record was the three weeks I spent in India in 2001.

I’ve got a new video project in the works. It’s a new souvenir DVD. This video will give you the opportunity to get an up-close look at some amazing magic. It will feature a live studio performance. There will also be some interactive magic that you participate in while watching the video.  Additional features will include footage from a live stage performance and overseas performances in Southeast Asia.

We’ll be taping it early next month, and will hopefully have the finished product available sometime in March.