deBeauxO’s at Dammit Janet went to  the Ottawa Civic Centre last week for Forgiven, the New Apostolic Reformation driven show sort of put on by Kenny Blacksmith of Gathering Nations International. I think deBeauxO’s caught a great deal I wouldn’t and couldn’t watching the online production. I figured by now the DVD set would be offered at an over inflated price, and that we’d see this  on God TV. 100 Huntley Street has it’s segment done.
The dead silence at the event website and Gathering Nations International has fed the odd disconnect the production  invoked in me. The key Facebook page has had few responses.  According to The Winnipeg Free Press about 4 thousand attended.
…That raised-arms pose was ubiquitous at the Ottawa Civic Centre as 99% of the crowd – most of them pallid christians of European ancestry – swayed to soft rock melodies whilst chanting lyrics such as “Jesus’ blood washes white as snow” & “worthy is the Lamb of God” and. It felt like a watered-down rave for middle-aged pentecostal evangelists and assorted charismatics.
After the religious entertainment portion of the evening was done with (including a bizarre choreographed version of first contact between Aboriginal and European folks that glossed over the history of forced religious conversions), Elijah Harper was invited to the stage. His words brought tears to my eyes and elicited a rousing Hallelujah! – he spoke powerfully to the reality of the First Nations people living conditions, spirituality and strength. It was the highlight of the evening, imho.
And. Also. Too. A lot of money was on display, in the state-of-the-art television recording and broadcasting installations. Before the religious pageant started, Faytene Kryskow sauntered through our seating area, in not-kewl hoi polloi territory. Apparently the group sitting in the seats below us had not been given the VIP status they deserved.
David Mainse established the nation’s first Christian television show, Crossroads, in 1963. In 1977 he launched 100 Huntley Street, now Canada’s longest-running Christian TV program.
As Faytene led Mainse and the dozen or so people in his entourage to reserved seats close to the stage, she apologized for the oversight, blurting out that the Aboriginal volunteers involved in the organization of the event “did not know who the important people were”. (emphasis mine – BD)
deBeauxO’s mentions two young women:
Two young women, ostensibly members of Faytene’s Yoot groupies (aka Kryskow-Jugend) won my respect.
In spite of the fact they had VIP access passes dangling from their necks, they chose to sit with their Aboriginal friends in the NOT-Very-Important-People section.
BD, if you do get a chance to to watch a broadcast of the 4given show, do check out the ‘first contact’ choreography I mentioned.
It starts off beautifully, with two Inuit throat singers, followed by two Aboriginal performers. Then it becomes mawkish and Disney-fied with an ersatz ‘coureur des bois’ prancing and jigging; it quickly does downhill from there.
Coerced religious conversions to christianity? Never happened, it seems.
The Friday night one, with the overhead camera and skinny white girls – worship dancers(?).
I can’t remember the title of the one I watched.
Mawkish is a good word, degenerated into trivializing, I didn’t know what to call it besides embarrassing and off base.
The production work caught my attention.
The overhead camera on dancers on the “Forgiven” floor. Good camera work and good lighting.
To be honest David Damien whispering in peoples ears weirded me out. Looked really poor on camera.
I wonder what production companies are being formed.
I think Steve Prankard (?) did Unite for Dominion (and had a lot of trouble with the streaming).
The sub-culture parallel universe of companies…
David Mainse had a host of parallel companies during his heyday at Crossroads – Mainsroad Publications, records/music labels, it would be interesting to get a list.
I think the production parallel universe is being rapidly reshaped.
Bill Prankards son, Shauna Simmonds, S-Vox, Crossroads, Stacey etc.
Crossroads hasn’t hidden their ambition, the 20 million in capital funds and 50% increased national production funnelled through the Burlington behemoth, event coverage etc.
If the religious TV channels team up, (The Miracle Channel and Crossroads Christian Communications) share production companies able to cross platform, they are positioned at the very least to potentially make money off events.
Faytene Kryskow does it again
She sure knows how to play the system, knows who and where the money and power are.
The aboriginals don’t know who the important people are?
Gee – that’s funny – God knows. He doesn’t play favourites.
Shame on Faytene. How arrogant.
I wonder if anyone in the Mainse party had the decency to blush and pull Ms. Kryskow aside and speak to her.
The Mainses might have deliberately sat in the back so that they can be seen getting escorted into the front row; Luke 14.
No matter where one is seated, everyone is
important in the eyes of the Lord.
Faytene should have known that and her
slip of the tongue reveals more than she wanted
to let out.
Cheap theatrics, a slip of the tongue and ostentation
in seating the Mainse group are not the Christian way.
Someone out to let Faytene know that.
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Faytene,
Mene, mene.
Reply 7 Torontonian
Mene, mene
I typed google “mene”
Also looked in the Concordance Dan 5:25-28
About writing in Aramaic on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast is very
interesting and good research.