Our flagship production, The Play has been a successful annual outreach to the Hampton Roads community since 1985. TMCJ International was born of The Play and established in April of 1996 to reach the nations.
The Story
The new adaptation, The Story, was especially written for TMCJ International Productions by renowned playwright, Dr. Gillette Elvgren, TMCJ board member and professor of Drama and the Arts at Regent University. We created this version with three objectives in mind: First, to be used to spread the Gospel both nationally and internationally. Second, to be mobile and travel easily. Third, to be adaptable to any culture or country in which it is performed.
The Story can be performed with between 5 to 10 actors and 2 stagehands using masks to portray over 40 characters from The Play. The Story lasts for approximately 45 minutes and offers a modern, exotic presentation which incorporates stylized movement, folk dancing and classical choreography, artistic props and original costumes.
Teams have been trained in Nepal, India, Indonesia, Ukraine, Siberia, Romania, Albania and Cuba, and we have invitations to train teams in many other countries.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT MORE INFORMATION OR TO HAVE A STORY TEAM TRAINED FOR YOUR CHURCH or MINISTRY, PLEASE CALL US AT OR EMAIL US AT info@tmcj.org.
The mission is two-fold:
Outreach
TMCJ International cast and crew members train in cross-cultural ministry, and travel to select international partnering churches or ministries where they present a culturally adapted version of The Play or The Story in the language of the people, as an evangelistic outreach.
Training
TMCJ International training teams teach all areas of Christian drama, stage production, worship and dance. Each team member has a specific role in training international partnering members to perform and present a culturally adapted version of The Play and The Story production, in the language of the people.
History of TMCJ's International Outreaches
The first outreach was completed in October 1995, as 37 local cast and crewmembers gave public performances in the closed Islamic nation of Turkey. Each performance captivated standing room only audiences with this dramatic presentation of the Gospel.
Since that first outreach in 1995, we've trained several all-Russian teams in Murmansk, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk. A team of 30 Arabs from Bethlehem has been trained and premiered the Arabic version of The Play in Bethlehem and Ramallah. 12 Actors were trained in Kathmandu, Nepal and premiered the Nepali version of The Story in their own language and incorporated their own style music and dances. Requests for this team to continue doing performances in other areas of Nepal continue to come in, and have resulted in the training of additional teams and the opening of a TMCJ office in Kathmandu, July 2001, as well as opening an office in Siliguri, North India in 2007. Teams have also been trained in Indonesia, Ukraine, Siberia, Romania, Albania and Cuba, and we have invitations to train teams in many other countries.
TMCJ International Productions, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit ministry dedicated to awakening, training, discipling, mobilizing and uniting the Christian community worldwide to minister the truth of the Gospel and impact all people’s worldview through drama, worship, music and the arts, and to help meet the humanitarian needs in the communities we serve.
