tag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:/blogs/cultural-xchange-series?p=1Cultural Xchange Series2019-03-02T13:27:42-06:00Ted Pearcefalsetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/56664942019-03-02T13:27:42-06:002021-01-04T23:00:36-06:00Newsletter - March 2019<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><em>"Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated" </em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Shalom my friends, </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The culturaXchange keeps rolling, though it has been more than 3 years since I sent out a newsletter. I would say it's nothing personal, but actually it kind of was...and lately I've been hearing all kinds of crazy rumors about myself, so I figured it would be good to let you know that I'm still alive. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I am completely accountable to those who support me. Anyone else can take a flying leap....but if you are truly a friend of mine I beg you, talk to me about it before passing anything on, ok? Some of the rumors I've heard are really vicious, and none of them have been true so far. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It is true that I have gone through a lot of personal tragedy over the last few years, starting with the death of my little brother (and other family members), and then going through an indifferent divorce while taking care of my mom's recovery from a brain tumor. We know that the rain falls on everyone, so I won't bore you with my problems, but I dreaded life for a while and moved from my beloved Texas to South Carolina on the day of the total eclipse (August 27, 2017) with no intention to tour again. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">My dream was to help start a Messianic Arts & Media Academy there for building up worship teams. Suffice to say it did not work out in Spartanburg, yet I haven't given up. I now reside in the mountains of west Asheville NC but the target city for that Academy is now Daytona Beach, Florida. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="Schwarma Records &amp; SONGS OF THE RABBI" data-link-label="Songs of the Rabbi press kit" data-link-type="page" href="/songs-of-the-rabbi-press-kit" target="_blank">Schwarma Records & SONGS OF THE RABBI</a> </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">A Pastor who lives in Daytona, Matt McKeown, has nudged me out of retirement by offering time at Sound Mind Recording studio. We started writing and working together for a new album of songs and you are going to love if we ever finish it. In the meantime Matt & I did a crazy thing... </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Just as an experiment Matt gave me the studio for an entire week to produce a project we're calling. "Songs of the Rabbi". </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">For the fourth time in six years, I was invited to play for the Rabbi's Conference in Orlando, so I asked every messianic Rabbi songwriter to send 3 songs they've written to define "messianic Jewish worship music". </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Then I sent out an open-invitation to about a hundred messianic worship leaders and musicians across America and Israel, knowing that not many could make a whole week in Florida. About 25 people were able to show up on different days of that week. So yes, we were going to produce an album of at least 15 songs with an undefined band of people who had mostly never met (much less played together) doing songs we had not heard before....in a week. That's just crazy talk!?! </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Coming to save us from this potential disaster were folks you know like Corry Bell, Mark Vidito, Debra Kline, Vince Iantorno, Sue Samuel, Michelle Gold, Elshad Babakhadar, Mahlodi Wray, Sarah Benedict...and many more absolutely wonderful worship artists from the surrounding east Florida coast. I've started building a <a contents='"Songs of the Rabbi"&nbsp;page' data-link-label="Songs of the Rabbi press kit" data-link-type="page" href="/songs-of-the-rabbi-press-kit" target="_blank">"Songs of the Rabbi" page</a> on my website if you want to know more, and that's where I'll be posting the latest info as we go along. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We finished cutting that album in one week of January and it worked out miraculously! Now Matt & I will need to find time to edit/mix/master those songs. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Since these are songs of men who deserve great honor, we will be taking our time to make sure that every song is as good as we could possibly make it. Most of these songs will be released as singles between now and the summer messianic conferences, with the hope of having a finished full CD ready by the first week of July. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Though it's just a coincidence I'm sure, as it turns out the first song ready for release is based on 2 Chronicles 7:14 "If My People" by Rabbi David Rosenberg which should be out mid-March. Just waiting for Matt to get back from ministry in Switzerland to finalize it. This song features a Russian man Elshad Babakhadar (Novi Jerusalem) and an American woman, Sue Samuel, on lead vocals. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It seems strangely prophetic that this is the message we start with. Stay tuned to my website and/or facebook page for the latest news. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="March of the Nations in Israel &nbsp;2017-2019&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://marchoflife.org" target="_blank">March of the Nations in Israel 2017-2019 </a> </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Many of you know that I was the Founder and Director of March of Remembrance and a charter member of March of Life in Germany, which began in October 2006. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">This started as a repentance prayer walk with children of Nazis and Shoah survivors Rose Price and Peter Loth going across Germany from Stuttgart to Munich arriving at Dachau on Yom HaShoah, April 14 2007. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">At Dachau, Galilee of the Nations Records released the "For Zion's Sake I Will Not Be Silent" compilation which included the powerful music video "The Forgotten People" featuring Pastor Jobst Bittner and me. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">This repentance prayer walk kept growing until now being held these marches in 350+ cities of 22 nations. Though I have recently stepped down as Director of March of Remembrance, it continues expanding as a worldwide prayer movement of Christians standing against anti-semitism, and praying against strongholds in our respective cities. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">This has culminated beautifully in the land of Israel over the last three years. During Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) May 22, 2017 several hundred of us marched from Latrun, Israel along the Burma Road up to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the recapture of Jerusalem. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The following year 6,000 Christians from 50+ nations joined us for Israel's 70th birthday celebration May 13-15, 2018. March of the Nations held a conference in the largest auditorium of the city addressing anti-semitism in church history, while the nations raged about the US Embassy being opened across town. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">At the 2018 events, I had the honor of performing with Israeli band, Miqedem, with so many major international Christian ministries and Israeli dignitaries in attendance. Knesset member Rabbi Yehudah Glick was so excited that he ran into the crowd and got us dancing. I found myself in a dance with Heidi Baker! The day after the US Embassy opened all 6,000 of us marched across the city of Jerusalem singing "happy birthday" to the people of Israel. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Ending ceremonies were held in the largest outdoor amphitheater of Mount Zion. We hosted more than 2,000 Holocaust survivors with more than 8,000 people in attendance and it was broadcast to millions on God TV. The VIP Speakers were a "who's who" of major international ministries and more Israeli dignitaries, but one of them made a particularly powerful impact on me. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Major General Almog was the man who led the Raid on Entebbe. If you don't know what that is, please stop right now and find out. This newsletter will wait.... </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">They made a movie about this tough guy, and he rose to be one of the top military leaders in the world today....but none of that was his greatest accomplishment. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">He spoke that night about how he would never leave a soldier behind, yet he had a son who was born severely disabled and found that Israeli society had left these children behind. His love for these kids caused him to change the culture of Israel completely. He lobbied the government health care system to make major changes and began work on a city in the Negev built specifically to help families with severely disabled children, to give them a place of dignity and honor in their nation. I will never forget when he said, "God will judge us by how we treat the least of our society". </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="NACHALAT ERAN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://aleh.org" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">NACHALAT ERAN</span></a></p>
<p><span class="font_large">In the last couple of years, the Lord has been bringing severely disabled and autistic kids into my life and I kept wondering why. This speech from the General was my answer. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Some of you know that I constantly pray for the impossible, precisely because I know that I can't do it. But we know it is His will that these beautiful and innocent children are cared for so I have a new "impossible" vision to accomplish with the rest of my life. Would you pray and partner with me to see this kind of city to be built all across America and the world? We're calling it Eran Village after the General's son. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I've met many people across the southeast who have innovative solutions, but they mostly toil alone. My challenge is to bring all of this intellectual energy together, and Adonai has sent Esher Barry to be the leader of the campaign. Esther and her husband have raised and adopted special kids...and have built 9 schools across Florida to help them. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">She and her husband are drawing up plans and inspecting properties of 120 acres to build such a city in Florida as a model for the rest of us. There is actually already a 37-acre city like this for mostly Down's syndrome kids in Melbourne, FL (PromiseInBrevard.org) and General Almog has pledged the expertise of Israel to help us every step of the way. Stay tuned for more details on that city. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">For 2019, March of the Nations will be walking through several cities of Israel in June. Maybe you should go? </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="SERVANT'S HEART TOURS TO ISRAEL" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.radiantisrael.com" target="_blank">SERVANT'S HEART TOURS TO ISRAEL</a> </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">One of our goals is to raise the profile of what they are doing at this city, Nachalat Eran (aleh.org) in Israel, so with the help of Gilad and Magi Rosinger at Radiant Tours, we have launched something called "Servant's Heart Tours" where we go to volunteer at this city, as well as other outreach ministries all over Israel like picking up trash in Tiberias with Beautiful Land Initiative, or throwing banquets for Holocaust Survivors through Helping Hand Coalition. In the last week of February, I was asked to join the HHC Global Forum, an honor far beyond what can be explained here. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We've just returned from the first annual Servant's Heart Tour and I have uploaded a few videos and pictures. It is mostly volunteering but we also have a lot of fun with local tourism opportunities wherever we go. If you've got a heart to serve the people of Israel, or the severely disabled, then this tour is made for YOU. Contact <a contents="gilad@radiantisrael.com " data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:gilad@radiantIsrael.com" target="_blank">gilad@radiantisrael.com </a>to find out about the next tour going. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Bogata, Columbia in May&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://shuvu.tv" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">Bogata, Columbia in May </span></a></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I'll make my debut appearance south of the Texas border in Columbia this May with my dear friend, Tsahi Shapira, and Yeshivat Shuvu. He has asked me to teach a week of classes on something dear to my heart, messianic worship. This conference is going to be amazing and YOU are invited with so many American's already registered. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">That is only the tip of the iceberg of how the Lord is leading me out of my self-imposed retirement, but it's enough to absorb for now. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And if your heart is moved to help with any of this, I could sure use help for these several projects. Your tax-deductible donation is welcome through my financial accountability partner A.C.T. (Artists in Christian Testimony, Intl) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And remember that Ted Pearce Ministries is now accepting invitations to tour around America and the world again. If you'd like to know more about any of these projects, why not bring me in for an evening of praise, worship, and testimony? All it takes is an invitation. Contact my agent <a contents="Mandy@Moshav" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:info@tedpearce.com" target="_blank">Mandy@Moshav</a> or by calling her @ 409.679.6257</span></p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/55153172018-11-15T15:17:03-06:002018-11-15T16:06:32-06:00The Servant Tour to Israel - February 17 -27, 2019<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/141642/4b19f1882d03be68da2a051734e0a5ba83eed000/original/dsc02912.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">The Servant Tour to Israel </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>February 17-27, 2019 </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#3498db;"><strong><em><span class="font_large">Comfort ye, My people.....</span></em></strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Calling all servants of the Most High!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I've been leading <strong>March of Remembrance</strong> tours to Israel every year since 2014 and many on those tours have visited Israel multiple times and often say, <em>"I wish we were doing less tourism and were more involved with the people of Israel instead". </em> This is the inspiration behind the <strong>"Servant Tour"</strong> concept. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">February 17-27, 2019 will launch our first such tour. We will have tourism on the trip while also taking the time to get involved with local ministries and meet the people of Israel to demonstrate the love of Yeshua in practical ways all over the land. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Gilad & Magi Rosinger (Radiant Tours) are our hosts and have been planning this concept for a long time. First we will serve disabled children in south of Israel for three days, then go to Jerusalem for Shabbat and enjoy time worshipping with local saints before heading towards the Sea of Galilee to see and to serve some more. It's a very special program where YOU will be blessing the people of Israel in a visible way and return home with a blessing. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><span class="font_large">PLEASE NOTE: We have made changes in the way we're booking travel for the Israel Servant Tours</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">By only doing the land package (*expenses once you arrive in Israel) you can shop for your own airfare which usually saves money. For example, my own trip is over $500<em> </em><i>cheaper</i> than when we planned to fly out of Newark. Plus, if you have air miles or reward points for travel they can be used this way. If this sounds too complicated....we also have travel agents who can help you make sure to arrive and depart with the group, or book your flight if you need that.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So what are you waiting for? Most people who have signed up for the trip already are coming from Canada. We like our northern neighbors but, come on, we can't let them get all the blessing!?! </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE (click here)&nbsp;for the itinerary and registration info" data-link-label="Servant Tour Israel 2019 BROCHURE" data-link-type="file" href="/files/366236/Servant%20Tour%20Israel%202019%20BROCHURE" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE (click here) for the itinerary and registration info</span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><span class="font_large">We will be serving for 3 days at Nachalat Eran</span></span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Last May, when <a contents="March of the Nations" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mon2018.com" target="_blank"><strong>March of the Nations</strong></a> led 6,000 people across the city of Jerusalem in celebration of their 70th birthday, we we also began a new partnership with Aleh.org in the land. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Of so many world-renown speakers attending our 3 day conference in Jerusalem, the most powerful words came from General Doron Almog, who led the raid on Entebbe. First guy in, last guy out. They made a movie about this tough guy and his bravery...but the movie didn't mention his most courageous accomplishment. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">General Almog had a son, Eran, who was born profoundly disabled and lived to be only 23 years old. General Almog recognized that severely disabled kids weren't being given much opportunity for a fulfilling life, and that they were somewhat neglected by society. Entire families were suffering isolation caused by how their children are viewed by others. The General took command and set about to change the culture. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Being a great leader and a man of forward vision, he built an entire city specifically for the profoundly disabled and autistic; where families touched by this situation could live together. This city in the Negev (south) of Israel has extra-wide doors in all the houses. There is permanent housing, temporary housing, and hotels for families to come and enjoy the swimming pool, horse buggy rides, theaters with wide aisles, etc. It is an actual and complete city where they can live with dignity, and not another institution. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">At the end of October we sent a scout from Florida to make a report on Nachalat Eran. To her surprise the General showed up to speak with her. Mrs Esther Barry runs 9 schools for special needs children in the Tampa area, and is currently exploring ways to bring such a city to America on a plot of land outside of Bradenton, FL. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">Shalom Ted! During my trip to Israel last week , I was honored to go visit ALEH located in the Negev-Nahalat Eran. This is a total village for severely Special Needs people, ages 5 yrs to 50 years old. It was an amazing place with state of the art buildings, a school Kindergarten-21yrs, a therapeutic center, gardens, horse rides, permanent homes for 145 residents with 525 volunteers. </p>
<p style="text-align: right;">Doron Almog, Major General (Res) Chairman, meet with us and and said that perhaps we could collaborate with him here in Florida. We are excited about this as we have a vision to build a village for our special needs citizens here in Florida. We have found property 120 aces on Swanee River need benefactors so we can move forward with this project. Any help is greatly appreciated </p>
<p style="text-align: right;">Dr. Esther Berry, Administrator, </p>
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<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/52704232018-06-01T14:22:00-05:002018-11-02T02:07:03-05:00SUMMER OF GOD'S LOVE TOUR begins...<p> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">(Picture: with Phil York's Grammy while working on the "emergency" project)</p>
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<p>First let me start by thanking Rabbi Andy Meyerson for a much-needed break from the road in 2017. </p>
<p>As some of you know, my life has changed drastically in the last couple of years and has suddenly become a big adventure. I honestly have no idea where it's going, except "to a land He will show me". Only three days ago, I moved into Asheville, NC. The rent is paid for the next two months and it already looks like I may not even see the place this summer. Why, you ask? </p>
<p>BECAUSE I'M COMING TO SEE <a contents="YOU" data-link-label="Concerts" data-link-type="page" href="/concerts" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:null;">YOU</span></strong></a>!!! </p>
<p>I don't really "tour" per se...I travel around singing praise with friends everywhere and worshipping Yeshua several times a week with them. If all we ever do is give Him praise, Daiyenu! (it is enough!) However, I've got a new report to bring about March of the Nations, held recently in Jerusalem for those who want to hear it. </p>
<p>Soooo......starting in a few hours in Bristol, Virginia <a contents="THE SUMMER OF GOD'S LOVE TOUR" data-link-label="Concerts" data-link-type="page" href="/concerts" target="_blank">THE SUMMER OF GOD'S LOVE TOUR</a> goes half-way across America to New Mexico for the month of June....who knows after that? Amanda is filling up dates so fast I can't keep up so check the calendar often, ok? Going to Canton, Ohio by the end of July for a really fun concert with the whipper-snapper, Joshua Aaron, celebrating Michael Oyler's faithfulness to ministry. </p>
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<p>All it takes in an invitation for us to sing His praises together in your city. Amanda and I are very excited about going wherever that leads in 2018.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/141642/2d418135d0c61f142b21bd27138cdd60f8b11645/original/stage1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/45668002017-01-27T16:15:14-06:002022-05-23T02:28:03-05:00Shechem / Samaria<div style="text-align: center;">
<br><span class="font_large">1.27.17 - I've just published "Shechem" on LIttlstar! </span><br><br><span class="font_large">Join the tour group on a virtual experience overlooking the "West Bank" capital of Nablus. It is ironic that the world expects Israel to surrender this exact spot where God says to Abraham in Genesis 12, "<em>This is the land I give you and your descendants forever" </em><br><br>God appears to Abraham, Jacob builds an altar, Joshua and the Tribes on Mt Ebal & Gerazim, Yeshua and the woman at the well, Joseph's bones, So much history happened in this little spot!?!<br><br>Hope you learn as much as I did in making this episode of culturalXchange: Israel</span><br><br><br><br> <div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="font_large">Shechem!</span><a contents="Shechem! (in virtual reality)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://littlstar.com/videos/217e2aac" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/141642/753be24b7a029ec5ec4262e74bcc08e24c09bdc4/original/cx-cover-pic.png?1483471804" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Shechem! (in virtual reality)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://littlstar.com/videos/217e2aac" target="_blank">https://littlstar.com/videos/217e2aac</a></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;">There is a LOT more where that comes from so don't forget to subscribe to "CX Israel VR" at Littlstar.com - and join the TPM mailing list to keep updated</div>
</div>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/42510232016-06-27T04:01:42-05:002016-06-27T18:27:10-05:00You have to be there!?<p><strong><span class="font_regular">OHHHH... </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font_regular">If you aren't going to <a contents="Messiah Conference " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://messiahconference.org" target="_blank">Messiah Conference </a>this year you are <em>so</em> going to hate yourself for missing it.<br><br>A</span></strong><strong><span class="font_regular">s we have all come to expect, Messiah Conference is going to be absolutely stellar again this year. I'm not getting paid to say that no one throws a Conference like the MJAA, and especially lately with Moaz Ministries co-sponsoring so many excellent Israeli brothers and sisters from the land to come and bless us in America???? </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font_regular">I know that the Father is very pleased by the sound we make together <em>whenever</em> we worship, but I believe we're all in for an unexpected surprise this year with the addition of so many amazing Polish friends who will be among us. Really, you must be there! </span></strong><strong><span class="font_regular">I'll come on erev Shabbat, right after Miqedem. Believe me, I would <em>not </em>try to pull that off unless they were playing with me! S</span></strong><strong><span class="font_regular">o I am VERY excited to announce that I'll be playing with Miqedem on Friday night July 8th! </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font_regular">These are the musicians, and amazing brothers and sisters in Yeshua, who made Warsaw Sessions and Jerusalem Sessions so fabulous!!! <a contents="Jamie Hilsden" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdRthZeK5nk&list=PLbTdkiXNo_eVICeJUGHOkwGHfEmrn3Ejm" target="_blank">Jamie Hilsden</a> and <a contents="Pawel Zarecki " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://zarecki.pl" target="_blank">Pawel Zarecki </a>(whose website pic is a riot) and <a contents="Jadwiga Kwapa " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YpVX98a29w" target="_blank">Jadwiga Kwapa </a>(Jadzia Zarecka) and <a contents="Shai Sol" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg-LPRLOaWY" target="_blank">Shai Sol</a> and <a contents="Yaron Cherniak " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3En1gVOEgsM" target="_blank">Yaron Cherniak </a>and <a contents="Jeremiah Kaufman" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7xyROxYolc" target="_blank">Jeremiah Kaufman</a> all in the same band onstage? Oh yeah, you need to see this!?!</span></strong></p>Then add Paul Wilbur and Marty Goetz and Joel Chernoff playing during the week...with pretty much every other messianic artist around today??? Oh yea, don't forget the teachers. ;-) <br><br>The only way it could be better is if YOU are with us. Please come to Messiah Conference and help us raise the praise!<br><br> <p> </p>4:26Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/41704372016-05-07T02:00:00-05:002016-05-07T19:16:42-05:00Watchmen on the Walls<p> </p>
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<p>I just uploaded a VR program at Littlstar that will allow YOU to be one of those watchmen! In this program we take a 5 minute walk on the walls surrounding the old city of Jerusalem, and literally transport you to several locations along the ramparts of Jerusalem as we pray Psalm 122.</p>
<p>This was February 2016, when <a title="March of Remembrance" href="http://marchofremembrance.org" target="_blank">March of Remembrance</a> took our second tour of the land. On this day we went from the Jaffe Gate to the Kotel in a prayer walk along the ramparts of the city.</p>
<p>So grab your VR headset and join us now!</p>
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<p>Alex has been touring Europe to shoot a VR documentary with the most famous Composer of movie-themes in the world (whom will remain unnamed at this time) and is only growing in demand, so I have started training for other areas of VR that are not getting enough attention with Alex's travel schedule. </p>
<p>In only a matter of about 3 weeks, I've become a lean/mean stitching machine, with well over 100 clips now ready. So my next step is to learn editing with Adobe Premiere Pro so I can create programs when Alex isn't available. We are still working together, of course, but now we can work independently while we work together. ;-)</p>
<p>My first attempt at editing is a show posted on the Littlstar page called <a href="https://littlstar.com/videos/e60d2927">"The Valley of Elah"</a>. Had to lift the intro off a show that Alex had released and it caused a weird line to appear in the back, but that will be fixed as soon as Alex gets back and gives me the original file to drop into that space instead. </p>
<p>This is only a "first draft" to help me learn the software and how to build a show. Now I'm working on several more full programs; like a documentary on the stabbing of American tourist, Taylor Force, on March 8 in Tel Aviv. </p>
<p>Stay tuned....things will start to move a little faster once I figure this out.</p>
<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/41337762016-04-12T02:00:00-05:002016-04-13T02:32:42-05:00March of Life & March of Remembrance presents "Shoah Stories"<p>Yesterday we shot one of the most intriguing discussions you could ever hear. A fountain of grace has been opened and we can hardly wait for you to see it!!! And since it was shot completely in VR, it can only be viewed as if you are in the room with us. </p>
<p>16 people who were second-generation direct descendants of the Shoah were divided into 4 different panels. Every person documented the facts, dates, names, places of their family story during the years of WWII. Who was killed, where, how many, etc..</p>
<p>And then they had the most intriguing conversations with each other. Pastor Jobst Bittner and several descendants of Nazi perpetrators came from Tubingen Germany to be a part of the conversation, as sponsors of the global March of the Nations (Jerusalem - May 2018)</p>
<p>Every single story was riveting, but watching them respond to each other was priceless, as you <em>will</em> experience for yourself in the not-too-distant future. </p>
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<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/41090112016-03-28T13:17:44-05:002016-03-28T13:17:44-05:00LittlstarShalom y'all,<br><br>I've been stitching VR content from Israel and posting that raw footage up at a private page on Littlstar's app. Want to see it?<br><br>If you want to see it in 360VR, just take out your smart phone, go download the littlstar app at the GooglePlay store or the iTunes store (Note: no "e" in littlstar) and then search their site for "CXIsraelVR" to find my hidden content. There are dozens of raw films that will be used as footage for some upcoming episodes of "Cultural Xchange: Israel (on Ascape.com) and many other random clips that may not appear elsewhere. <br><br>Did a few music videos of friends who played on my Cultural Xchange Series of CDs (Warsaw & Jerusalem Sessions) that I'm sure you'd love. Also have several performances from your truly at King of Kings Jerusalem on March 1, 2015 for the release of Jerusalem Sessions with Jamie Hilsden and the KoK worship team joining Alex and me onstage. Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/40898452016-03-15T02:00:00-05:002016-03-15T21:16:58-05:00Back from Israel (March 2016)<p>Just returned from THREE FULL WEEKS of shooting VR around the nation of Israel!</p>
<p>We captured experiences from biblical sites, to Holocaust survivors giving their testimony, to a documentary of the murder of American tourist, Taylor Force in Yafo, where 14 people were stabbed, to cultural sites, historical sites, and even a few music groups playing Israeli music. </p>
<p>There are at least another hundred clips coming your way soon, so instead of waiting for full programs to be edited into "Cultural Xchange: Israel", we'll have several random clips and raw stitches up on Littlstar.com under <a title="CX Israel VR" href="http://littlstar.com/cx-israel-vr" target="_blank">"CX Israel VR" </a>if you are looking for more.</p>
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<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/40176592016-02-03T02:00:00-06:002016-01-31T16:16:30-06:00Back to Israel for more VR filming in 2016<p> </p>
<p>In only two weeks, CX will be going back to Israel for three more weeks of filming the "Cultural Xchange: Israel" series.</p>
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<p>We'll be producing a VR photo album of sites mentioned in the bible, and also following Dr Jeffrey Seif PhD around the land to get a University-level teaching series at the very places you're read about. </p>
<p><br>And we are committed to showing you things you've never seen, and places you've never experienced that will enhance your spiritual journey like nothing before!</p>
<p>Tell all your friends and stay tuned!</p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/40176612016-01-31T02:00:00-06:002016-01-31T16:16:31-06:00More episodes released!<p> </p>
<p>if you're following the Cultural Xchange Series on Ascape, you've seen that we have 5 episodes up now. We'll be staggering new releases every other week on Ascape for the foreseeable future as we work on building our own app. </p>
<p>Depending on how we edit the remaining footage there are 40 to 60 episodes of this first VR tour of Israel still coming, so check back regularly to see what's new. </p>
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<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/40176602016-01-31T02:00:00-06:002016-01-31T16:16:31-06:00The rising star<p> </p>
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<p>Producer/Director Alex Pearce is quickly rising in prominence of the VR production world!</p>
<p>He has been contracting with the world's largest VR Company, Jaunt, and is camera-operator on the world's most advanced VR camera. This relationship has him jetting all over America for the last few months. </p>
<p>As the world's leading VR company, Jaunt has contracted to shoot concerts with major entertainment stars (find their Paul McCartney live in San Francisco app online) and several more that we can't mention yet</p>
<p>They are also working with every major sports company like NFL Films, NHL, FIFA, etc...</p>
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<p>I am supremely proud to see Alex getting his due for years of hard work and forward vision, but it also means that he's less available for future productions, including the Feb/Mar 2016 trip back to Israel. He will still be very much a part of the Cultural Xchange Series, with pre and post production concerns, not to mention counseling every other step of the way, but this new connection will keep him very busy on other productions. </p>
<p>But that is GREAT NEWS for you, the viewer, because he is producing content that you will be amazed and astounded by in the very near future. </p>
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<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39710232015-12-23T02:00:00-06:002017-01-15T21:35:15-06:00Cultural Xchange Series partners with Ascape!<p><span>Happy Holidays to everyone!</span><br><br><span>Just redesigned the homepage of </span><a href="http://culturalxchange.org/" target="_blank" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url">CulturalXchange.org</a><span> to introduce an exciting partnership with AscapeVR to bring our Virtual Reality tour of Israel to you in 4k super hi-def quality...and it's still FREE! </span><br><br><a href="http://ascape.com/" target="_blank" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url">Ascape</a><span> is already the world's leader in providing the highest-quality VR tourism experiences and "Cultural Xchange Series" has our own dedicated channel on their amazing App, which you can get on your mobile phone in a matter of seconds at </span><a href="http://culturalxchange.org/" target="_blank" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url">CulturalXchange.org</a><br><br><span>So tell everyone you know that Cultural Xchange is about to release dozens of amazing VR experiences from Israel. Look for our channel on Ascape.com.</span></p>
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<p><span><img src="//culturalxchange.org.hostbaby.com/img/Ascape.png" class="size_orig justify_left border_" alt="AscapeVR broadcasts in 4k hi-def!" height="156" width="250" /><img src="//culturalxchange.org.hostbaby.com/img/painted_ladies.JPG" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="San Francisco leads in VR technology" height="156" width="250" /></span></p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39671142015-12-22T20:55:32-06:002017-01-15T21:35:15-06:00"Cultural Xchange Series" Channel now on Ascape!<br>Happy Holidays to everyone!<br><br>Just redesigned the homepage of <a contents="CulturalXchange.org" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://culturalxchange.org" target="_blank">CulturalXchange.org</a> to introduce an exciting partnership with AscapeVR to bring our Virtual Reality tour of Israel to you in 4k super hi-def quality...and it's still FREE! <br><br><a contents="Ascape" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://ascape.com" target="_blank">Ascape</a> is already the world's leader in providing the highest-quality VR tourism experiences and "Cultural Xchange Series" has our own dedicated channel on their amazing App, which you can get on your mobile phone in a matter of seconds at <a contents="CulturalXchange.org" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://culturalxchange.org" target="_blank">CulturalXchange.org</a><br><br>So tell everyone you know that Cultural Xchange is about to release dozens of amazing VR experiences from Israel. Look for our channel on Ascape.com.<br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://ascape.com" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/141642/7cbd3cace7e14e6647a5b8a4b0542654a00a1c4b/medium/screen-shot-2015-12-22-at-8-39-22-pm.png?1450838457" class="size_m justify_left border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://culturalxchange.org" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/141642/4bf5851adf84fef91a5a3e0eb69a1ed27d406ae3/medium/screen-shot-2015-12-22-at-8-44-37-pm.png?1450838732" class="size_m justify_right border_" /></a>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39710242015-11-29T02:00:00-06:002016-01-04T13:16:42-06:00Cultural Xchange Producer Alex Pearce shooting for NFL in VR<h1 class="text-main alt-font">Alex Pearce works with "Jaunt" on the first VR shoot of an NFL game in history! </h1>
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<p><br>Producer/Director of CulturalXchange.org, Alex Pearce, was contracted by a French company (Jaunt) to crew and shoot<em> the first NFL game in virtual reality history!</em> If you watched the 49ers/Falcons game November 8, 2015 and saw a guy on the field with something that looks like a pumpkin on a pole, that is cultural Xchange Producer, Alex Pearce, shooting the game for NFL Films in virtual reality.</p>
<p>And on Nov 29th at the Saint vs Texans game, his job was to stay with six feet of JJ Watt on the sideline. Jaunt is the world's leading VR Production company and now the forerunner in broadcasting major Sports events, with Alex as a camera man on the world's most advanced VR camera. </p>
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<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39063512015-10-30T02:00:00-05:002021-03-02T01:07:55-06:00Cultural Xchange now carries Goggletech VR hardware<p>It can be tough to explain our show before someone has experienced VR for themselves, so we are now a wholesale distributor for goggle tech VR hardware!<br><br>Why not <a contents="get a set of these VR glasses" data-link-label="Store" data-link-type="page" href="/store" target="_blank">get a set of these VR glasses</a> for everyone on your holiday shopping list? It will be their most talked-about gift this year...and only $20 gets you a virtual tour of Israel and hundreds of virtual experiences.</p>
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<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39063522015-10-28T02:00:00-05:002020-02-24T11:10:25-06:00First epidsode of "Footsteps of Jesus" releases Oct 28, 2015<p> </p>
<p>The first episode of the virtual reality tour of Israel in history was released today with little fanfare. After all, there aren't many who have a way to watch it yet!?</p>
<p>This episode starts with Director Alex Pearce and tour-guide Yoram Black at the top of the Mount of Olives, overlooking Jerusalem and then follows them to <em>Dominos Flavits</em> - latin for <em>"The Lord Wept"</em> which is the traditional site for remember how Jesus wept over the fate of Jerusalem. </p>
<p>Our next episode will be released in early November 2015 and is a tour of the Garden of Gethsemane and then Church of All Nations. </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/38820742015-10-04T12:32:01-05:002021-12-23T03:38:17-06:00October 4, 2015Shalom chaverim (Peace my friends)<br><br>The pace of life and ministry has so increased that I feel the need to have a blog that will direct my friends & fans where to look so they can keep up. <br><br>In the next two weeks, I will be driving all over Oregon and Washington (state) to minister and visit my friends in the Pacific Northwest. Please, please, please come out and hear all the new music, the latest testimonies, and check out some of the Virtual Reality films I'm working on with <a contents="Producer Alex Pearce" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://alexpearceproductions.com" target="_blank">Producer Alex Pearce</a>. <br><br>Exactly one month ago today I got the news that my little brother, Ed, had unexpectedly and very suddenly died of massive cardiac arrest. I'll do a separate blog to honor him, but I mention it here because the memorial services interrupted life in an unavoidable way. At the time, I was in a hotel in Los Angelos, and touring through California while very busy fulfilling the orders for everyone who had contributed to the Cultural Xchange crowd-funding drive that started in August of 2013 and went through 2014. I'm pretty sure that it's 97% done....but those last packages have still not been sent. I'm planning to get back to that and finish this coming week, as I have a few days in Oregon coming up. Several of the packages I sent out were returned because people had moved or some other reason...so if you haven't gotten your package yet, would you please <a contents="write to us" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:info@tedpearce.com" target="_blank">write to us</a> and let us know? Don't forget to include your address!!!<br><br>But for now, I'm still in Florida for the Succot holiday. It's been a tremendously good tour here for the last two weekends. I was able to re-connect with so many friends, in cities from Ft Lauderdale to Orlando, that I haven't seen in a while...many years for some of them. I had been going to Florida a bit too much a few years ago, and felt that I needed to go see the rest of America for a while. Thankfully, that season has ended and we'll be planning more time in Florida eventually. <br><br>The week before I arrived, I had been in California with my son, Film-maker Alex Pearce, and we were screening a documentary he Directed/Produced in Petra, Jordan called "The Rose City" about a bedouin girl named "Menal". This is a VR-film (Virtual Reality) and if you've seen me in the last few months, you know I won't shut up about this amazing new technology that we're working in. In "The Rose City" you are transported to the ancient mystery city of Petra, Jordan as Menal talks very frankly about her arranged marriage and life as a woman in the Arabic culture. This film, and many more, will be made available on our new website at <a contents="CulturalXchange.org" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://culturalxchange.org" target="_blank">CulturalXchange.org</a><br><br>Last February, Alex and I shot for 20 days around Israel. We worked with the largest tourism company in the nation, IGT, and their top tour guide, Yoram Black, brought Alex around Jerusalem on his first day there, and they filmed a virtual tour, going to places from the Mount of Olives all the way through to the Tomb in 9 brief episodes combined into a program which we will release as <em>"The Last Day of Jesus" with Yoram Black</em>. That was only the first day of twenty around Israel, and I promise that you will be utterly fascinated as your brain tells you that you are actually standing there as you experience this amazing new technology! Again, we will make it available (free!) on our website in a very short time, so it would be a good idea to sign up for the mailing list on <a contents="CulturalXchange.org" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://culturalxchange.org" target="_blank">CulturalXchange.org</a> to keep up with all that is coming in the next months. <br><br>Did you see Netanyahu speak at the United Nations? When he talked about the deafening silence, and then waited for someone to say something? Well, <a contents="March of Remembrance" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://marchofremembrance.org" target="_blank">March of Remembrance</a> and <a contents="March of Life" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://marchoflife.org" target="_blank">March of Life</a> have <em>always</em> been about breaking the silence! This coming February, we are combining with March of Life to make a trip to Israel and represent people all over the world who stand with Israel to break this silence. And we have now adopted this message for our tour...."breaking the deafening silence" where <a contents="we invite YOU to go with us to the Knesset" data-link-label="2016 Israel Tour!" data-link-type="page" href="/2016-israel-tour" target="_blank">we invite YOU to go with us to the Knesset</a> in February to say YOU stand with Israel and that YOU will break the deafening silence wherever YOU go. Please<a contents=" join us on this tour" data-link-label="2016 Israel Tour!" data-link-type="page" href="/2016-israel-tour" target="_blank"> join us on this tour</a>, and also participate (or organize) a <a contents="March of Remembrance on May 1, 2016" data-link-label="March of Remembrance" data-link-type="page" href="/march-of-remembrance--2" target="_blank">March of Remembrance on May 1, 2016</a><br><br><br> Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39063532015-09-26T02:00:00-05:002015-12-22T21:00:33-06:00I can hardly wait!!!<p> </p>
<p>We had a "stitch party" in San Francisco last week, where several of us gathered to stitch together the VR films from Israel. Now, Alex is nearly finished editing what will be our first film from the VR Israel Tour last February. </p>
<p>And I can hardly wait for everyone to see this! </p>
<p>From only the first day out of 20 days around Israel, Alex has put together an amazing show called, <em>"The Last Day of Jesus" with guest host Yoram Black. </em>Yoram is the top tour guide for the largest tourism company in Israel, IGT, and his insights into the history of that night, and the history of Jerusalem in the 2,000 years since, will bless and enhance your understanding of the scriptures!</p>
<p>Yoram takes you, the viewer, on a journey from the Mount of Olives to The Tomb and all points in between. When you finally get to see it, you will be astounded at how you feel like you are actually walking with Yoram in Israel as he explains where you are standing and what you are looking at. </p>
<p>Subscribers to our mailing list will get notified about where and how they can view this when it's ready. </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39063542015-09-25T02:00:00-05:002021-03-02T01:07:01-06:00a VR 360 theatre<p> </p>
<p>CX is exploring the use of a 360-domed theatre in Philadelphia, where we would be able to show Virtual Reality films without the viewer having to put on a headset. </p>
<p>We have been constantly in study of where the VR industry is going, and this could be another "first" in VR history. Production companies do not seem to be moving towards broadcasting in any other medium than a headset. </p>
<p>STAY TUNED AND HOLD ON TO YOUR SEAT!!!</p>
<p> </p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39063552015-09-24T02:00:00-05:002015-12-22T20:58:51-06:00LA Film-festival<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday night we attended a VR meet-up in Los Angelos, and last night we screened "The Rose City" at the Kaleidoscope VR Film-fest. </p>
<p>Both were a great opportunity to meet other VR Producers. We made several important new contacts, and met many enthusiastic seekers of VR adventure. </p>
<p>Things are going to start moving even faster than they have been....so stay tuned!</p>Ted Pearcetag:www.tedpearce.com,2005:Post/39063562015-09-17T02:00:00-05:002020-06-27T02:43:24-05:00"The Rose City" releases in San Francisco!<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//www.culturalxchange.org.hostbaby.com/img/The_Rose_City_Poster.JPG" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="230" style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="465" /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Last night we had our first screening at the Virtual Reality FilmFest in San Francisco...</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It was a sold-out standing-room-only event at Public Works. There were hundreds of VR enthusiasts and film-makers in attendance. Our booth was crowded before the doors opened with other producers and VR biz-types gathering around to check out the film, "The Rose City"</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The film is a peek into the life of a Bedouin family who lives in Petra Jordan, while surrounded by the amazing 8th Wonder of the World. The show is hosted by Producer/Director Alex Pearce and runs about 15 minutes. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Next week we're screening the film at a VR Filmiest in Los Angelos, and in a couple weeks we'll also premier in Brooklyn. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If you'd like more info just email us: info@culturalxchange.org</p>
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<p> </p>Ted Pearce