Recently while we were visiting in Colorado, my daughter, my grandson and I attended a performance of the Shakespeare Inprov. Company. My Son-in-law, granddaughter and my wife went to the American Girl doll store, while we watched the improvisation group “do Shakespeare.” The group improvisation group invites the audience to suggest a title and then improvises a Shakespeare style play on the spot. The cast does the dialogue in rhyme for the nobility and ordinary prose for the servants. Like Shakespeare’s plays the jokes are broad and at times a bit suggestive. It is amazing how adept the players are and even their missteps are funny. I have seen Ken Medema do this same sort of thing . He asks the audience for a song title which he then uses to compose a song. The results are always wholesome and challenging, often with humorous elements as well. Medema and Ted Swartz, a Christian comedian, are now touring Church of the Brethren districts with a music and comedy program. The result is both entertaining and challenging for Christians. Saturday, March 14 they will be at the Manchester Church of the Brethren. It would be fun and rewarding for a group of us to go to the program. There will be an offering to go to Heifer International. This is part of the District wide celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the South/Central District and our project of two arks ($5000 each) for the Heifer Project. I look forward to a fun evening