Rick Beeman

It was a very important day for me today.    The first day of acting classes and I was a bit apprehensive.    I had absolutely no idea who was going to show up or not.    It could have been an absolute failure or a smashing success.    Already the buzz of the class has generated a lot of publicity for KSDi around the island.    We are being branded and that is going to have its long term benefits.    Last night at dinner for example, I met a guy who said…I saw your magazine, I read about your acting classes.    Then I went to Fuddruckers for lunch this afternoon.    As I was leaving a waitress looked at me, and said…are you in Highlights magazine.    I smiled and said yes.    She said, Oh Mr. Beeman we’ve been reading about you.    She then pulled out the magazine from the rack.    She knew my name.    How is that possible?    She knew my name.    People tell me that this new push is creating a lot of buzz on the street.    Its funny and cool to be a part of that talk.    Im hoping to ...

Woke up this morning and went to breakfast at my favorite little dive.    I took Guy there this time.    I spoke with Ravi the waiter, he always gets excited when I come in to eat.    I order the same thing everytime.     I just order the usual.      Ravi and I spoke about Slumdog Millionaire.    A.R. Rahman the one that composed the music and won the oscar was from his home state in India.    He was going to see Slumdog later in the day.    All the Indian people are very proud that it did so well.    Indians are my favorite culture in the entire world.    They are very kind and gracious.    Because I tip, Ravi always gives me my Diet Cokes for free.   After breakfast it was off to church.    I am starting to help out with the teens at church.    So I miss the main service.    I figure they need help, and im here to serve.    So it’s a good combination.    I listen to about 8-10 sermons per week on my ipod as it is.    So missing a live service is not a big deal.      As I was talking,...

What a busy busy day it was.    I stayed at the office late last night and got a ton of work done.    Then I had a flurry of activity I needed to get done fast.    I love being busy at work.    I had to run out to the Gulf Daily News for an interview.    The Gulf Daily News is the major publication in Bahrain.    It’s the equivalent of the Los Angeles Times for this country.    So after Slumdog Millionaire won, I got kind of aggressive.    I called the newspaper and found the editor.    I told him he needed to do a story about us.    Now Hollywood will be searching for the next Slumdog and I’m trying to position KSDi in the right place to capitilize on this.    It seems like everything is coming together seamlessly right now.    So I made it to the newspaper and it was a large open office, just like the kind of news room I remember from  All the President’s Men .    You know, you’d think with all the media experience I have I would have been in a few newsrooms in my day.    I really ha...

What an incredibly busy day today.    I didn’t start off so well.    I had some discouraging news from home, but you know what it didn’t affect me.    I was ready for it.    I just immediately gave it over to God and he took the burden away from me.    As a matter of fact, when I was doing my talk/listen to God today, I felt very strongly impressed that it was going to be a great day for me.    You know what it was a great day, despite the setback.    God is indeed faithful.   I must have completed about three days worth of work in one day.    It was incredibly efficient.    The acting classes start Saturday so that is taking up a great deal of my time in trying to promote them.    I have a hunch they are going to start small then exponentially grow once the word gets out.       I love talking to people about the classes when they call in.    If you’ve ever been in one of my classes you know I take a very unique approach.    It almost becomes part of my ministry.    A lot of people thi...

One of the reasons why I’m here became abundantly clear tonight.    My new good friend the South African, whose house is where we hold our Mon. night Bible Study abruptly lost his job on Thursday.    He called me for prayer and support, which I’ve been constantly praying for him.    He and his lovely wife have me over for a home cooked meal before our small group.    Im very honored and its nice to have a home cooked meal again.    I kind of felt led that I should ask the group to pray and fast for the South African in his difficult situation.    Not only did he lose his job but his visa expires four weeks after the termination of his contract.    So in four weeks he faces the prospect of being deported.    So not only does he lose his job, but he faces the prospect of having to pack everything up in his big house and ship everything back to his home, if that is where he is headed.    Oh it should be noticed, that he didn’t do anything wrong.    The economic crisis has claimed another ...

Yeah!!!! Slumdog Millionaire.    I had a vested interested watching the Oscars this year.    I haven’t missed a telecast in more than 25 years.    One day, I believe Im going to win one of those statuettes.    I thought that dream died a few years ago when I left Hollywood in 2001.    Now it is being revived.    I mentioned before that I think Slumdog’s success will have a direct impact on us here in the Middle East.    I have a hunch that Hollywood will now immediately trend to more International stories.    I spoke with my contact earlier today, he’s going to set up meetings with his Hollywood connections in the coming weeks to get this happening.    Please pray for this.    it could be huge.    Im a little dazed right now as I didn’t get much sleep the night before.    It was quiz night…and that is now a Sun. Night tradition for me.    We won the first round and didn’t come close the ensuing rounds.    If we don’t have a Brit or someone from the UK at the table we just have a hard t...

Im going to keep this a bit short tonight because I stayed out way too late.    It was quiz night so that is quickly becoming a tradition.    We do that in J.J.’s Irish Pub.    It’s a blast.    Its coold because there are several people that want to be a part of my team.    The Australian was on my team with her friend.    Im really fighting not falling for this girl.    I fall for everyone it seems.    I recognize that about myself.    I think it just has to do with being alone far too long.    I just long to be in love again.    I just have to make sure its with the right person for the right reason.    To fall in love merely for the sake of being in love I think is a recipe for disaster.    I recognize that about myself We had a new girl start in the office today.    Her name is Natasha.    She’s an Indian and was actually raised in Aramco, where I worked in 2005.    She was educated in the states.    She is amazingly talented.    We are very blessed to have her on my team.    Im sl...

I think I got my groove back.    OK…maybe only my little sister will snicker at that.    But I finally got my joy back.    It happened right as I was eating my traditional post-fast Whopper with Cheese.    I think I really was under spiritual attack.    And the fast was a key point for me overcoming it.    I think that is one of the reasons God specifically called me to go on this fast.    If you remember that the disciples were trying to cast out a spirit.     They couldn’t and Jesus could.    So they asked why they couldn’t.    Christ responded this spirit only comes out by prayer and fasting.    So I think the attacks that I had…and if you’ve been reading the blog its been pretty intense…were the kind that only could be conquered by fasting.    Well I think I made it, knock on wood.    The cloud lifted.    I had a really great day.    The first one in about two weeks.    It was good to eat after three days, so the whopper was a highlight.    As I was eating I spotted another article...

I went to church this morning.    I really like the church I go to, which is good, because there aren’t a lot of other options available if I don’t like it.    The Pastor, Graeme, has a very funny and dry sense of humor.    He is quite hilarious with his off the cuff comments.    Yet most of the congregation doesn’t get his humor.    I want to stand up and yell…That was funny people.    I’m starting get more and more friends in the church which is nice.    I met another guy named Devlin, from South Africa.    He works with the teens in church.      For some reason there are tons of South Africans here in Bahrain.    They are in desperate need of volunteers for the church here.    I figured Im    here to serve so I should do my part.    Im going to start leading the teens during their service.    I figure I have teens, I teach teens acting, so I should be able to do it.    The only dilemma is that I would miss the service while I would be with them.    But, I download Charles Stanley an...

What a strange day it has been.    Nothing seemed to flow.    Not even writing this blog tonight.    I guess Im still really down about Ms. Texas.    I tried to convince myself that everything was OK, and I’ll I needed was a “can do” attitude.    I’ve been listing to Joel Osteen nearly 24/7 since I got the Lakewood Care package. Im doing all the tricks, like don’t focus on what you don’t have, focus on what you do have, still Im in that funk.    I just feel a bit out of it.    I didn’t think it was showing that much, until I went into the office today, and Tanya looked at me like I had been in a war zone.    She could tell something was bothering me, which surprised me because I didn’t think it showed.    She said I was the spark of the office and I needed to fire back or something like that.    She said I needed some fizz…which I think is a girlfriend. I’ve gone through this sort of thing before.    I just have to keep my head down and keep going.    Eventually the light will break th...

I think I mentioned this before. But one of the benefits of pain is it drives us closer to God.    One of the benefits of my extreme pain is now I can hear from God.    He’s been talking this whole time, I just didn’t pay attention to discern His voice.    I reasoned, that’s my own voice, or that’s my conscience, I never realized that God was talking to me the whole time. Im not sure If I have a gift that way or everyone can do it.    So last night God spoke to me, and said in your devotions tomorrow, I’m going to have a word for you when you read your Bible.    I got really excited.    In the past God has given me specific books and chapters to read that just kind of popped into my head.    When I looked them up, they were absolutely 100% appropriate for me at that moment.    This time God said…just read where you currently are in the Bible.    I read the Bible cover to cover when I read.    Im not sure that’s the right way, its just the way I’ve always done it.    I happen to be in t...

Every day gets a little better.    I can’t be on top all of the time.    I know that God is still in the process of working things out in my life, I just wish that he would hurry up.    We got some amazing coverage in a local magazine called  Highlights  no not the kids magazine this is another one.    They were really interested in the acting classes and gave us some great coverage.    The issue hits the streets today.    If you want to take a look at a copy of it, it can be viewed here  http://www.ksdibahrain.com/ksdi_saw.php    There is a link on the page that states “Action:    The Beeman Effect. “ You can access it there if you so choose.   Everyone in the office was so excited to see it.    We have several staff pictures in the article.    Many of them had never seen themselves in print before.    They were quite excited about it.    Priyesh was funny.    He saw his picture and he actually said more than three words in English for the first time ever I think.    With a big grin, ...

Every day gets a little better.    I can’t be on top all of the time.    I know that God is still in the process of working things out in my life, I just wish that he would hurry up.    We got some amazing coverage in a local magazine called  Highlights  no not the kids magazine this is another one.    They were really interested in the acting classes and gave us some great coverage.    The issue hits the streets today.    If you want to take a look at a copy of it, it can be viewed here  http://www.ksdibahrain.com/ksdi_saw.php    There is a link on the page that states “Action:    The Beeman Effect. “ You can access it there if you so choose.   Everyone in the office was so excited to see it.    We have several staff pictures in the article.    Many of them had never seen themselves in print before.    They were quite excited about it.    Priyesh was funny.    He saw his picture and he actually said more than three words in English for the first time ever I think.    With a big grin, ...

I feel like myself again after a temporary set back.    It’s so weird to be depressed after so much joy and hope has been racing through my life.    It was if God spoke to me, and said just keep your head down and wait this out.    Don’t be tempted to self-medicate just seek after me.    That’s exactly what I did.    Though I was tempted to self-medicate, I knew I was in a test, and I had to wait it out.    It so worked.    Im still not out of the total depression woods.    But the light shining through the gray clouds of despair is getting brighter and brighter.   We decided to do our classes at the Media Production Sound stage at Ahlia University in downtown Manama.    Its really a nice facility and will be perfect for our needs.    This is important because venue #2 The Cinema Club called me to tell me they couldn’t hold our classes because they are a non-profit or something like that.    So God’s favor and the generosity of Art, the Director of the program let us in.    There will ...

What a difference a day makes.    I can tell that a lot of people have been praying for me.    Wow.    It worked.    I was in a funk most of the morning.    But I have a faith that this cloud was going to part soon and I just had to stick it through.    If this was a test of some sort, I’m pretty sure Im passing it.    I don’t like the fact that Im lonely or in pain, but Im not going to resort to self-medicating.    God has come through time and time again.   Im going to be on the cover of another magazine this month.    Apparently I was on one last month I didn’t realize or see.    But this one comes out tomorrow.    I feel a little self conscious about it.    But the self-promotion is very important that I become the face of KSDI.    Art Jones and I were speaking tonight (more on him below) and he said Americans are quite revered in this culture, and I agree.    Even moreso than that, Hollywood is also quite respected.    Im totally playing up that angle.    I have become the face of...

Im so impatient.    I know everything happens in God’s time, I just wish he would hurry up already.    Heartache sucks.    I asked God to direct my steps.    In my prayer time today, that is exactly what he told me that he is doing.    But he’s directing them his way not my way.    For that I should be grateful, but right now at this moment Im struggling.      I’ve learned time and time again that God has a perfect plan.    It just sucks having to wait so long for it.    It’s Valentines day here…and no…no valentine for me.    Its not as commercial here as it is in the states.    There are a few stands selling balloons, but its not everywhere like the U.S. that is kind of nice.    I guess Im just anxious.    Its been four years nearly since I’ve been in a loving normal marital relationship.    I miss the TLC and a the security of a spouse.    This is sometimes where I think life isn’t fair. I was serving as a missionary and X left me.    I was serving God only to lose everything I held ...