On the stage and behind the scenes

REBECCA –
At the amphitheater the Christmas show opened on Thanksgiving weekend so we had an all-day rehearsal scheduled for Saturday, November 20. Keep in mind, Birdie had breast cancer surgery on Wednesday, November 17! But do you think she missed the Saturday rehearsal?

BIRDIE –
I was a little late that day.

REBECCA –
She never missed a rehearsal or a performance! We finished a great Christmas season and Birdie started chemotherapy.

BIRDIE –
As does anyone who faces chemo, I so dreaded the day I would lose my hair. But, my best buddy, Rebecca, helped me to find a new perspective on life.

REBECCA –
We decided that, before cancer could take Birdie’s hair, she would instead give it.

BIRDIE –
So, it was over.
Our time at King’s Arena.

REBECCA –
When you’re saying good-bye, no one remembers the bad times – the electrical storms, the leaking roofs, the flooding stage, the molding costumes, the cancelled tickets, the sunburn rehearsals, the aluminum benches, the snakes and black-widow spiders, the rain-checks, gusting winds and freezing to death at Christmas.

BIRDIE –
Nope! Most everyone looked at that old warehouse we were moving to and that grand amphitheater we were leaving and said, “How are you ever going to make this happen?”

REBECCA –
We didn’t know the answer to that question.

BIRDIE –
We just knew we HAD to make it happen.

REBECCA –
We kept saying to each other, “Surely God will help us.”

REBECCA –
Soon after we left the amphitheater in December, 2005, the new owner bulldozed that beautiful stage-replica of Jerusalem. Quickly that “holy ground,” which was originally purchased by the sacrifices of trusting Jim Bakker supporters, was sold to the highest bids of housing developers.

BIRDIE –
Now the whole place looks like a super-sized Monopoly game. Houses are everywhere with a few strip-mall type businesses and an assortment of churches.

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