![]() ![]() On Friday night, during a scene in which an actor steals his mother's prescription pills, Hagler bent over, into the face of a 10-year-old boy in the audience. "I want you to say, 'Shut up, old lady!'" "You said, 'Hush, mom,'" he told one actress who plays a disrespectful daughter. Others, he said, needed to worship false idols with more passion. A man has blamed his ex-wife for their daughter's death because the mother was a lesbian.ĭuring rehearsals for this year's show, he told some actors they needed to yell at each other louder. A pregnant middle school girl has made fun of her classmates for being virgins. ![]() In past years, actors have pretended to cut themselves, hang themselves and shoot themselves, using real guns as props. He wants the scenes in the church's production to address what he believes to be the problems of Dade County. He knows some people will assume their event is lame. He's watched some Christian films fall flat. A former school band director with some community theater experience, Hagler felt a Halloween performance could lure the lost souls who avoid Sunday morning services.īut he also knows how outsiders view church productions. Though Judgment Houses, Hell Houses and "Scared Straight" Houses have become popular in evangelical Christian circles over the past two decades, the Rising Fawn Church of God had not hosted this type of event until five years ago, when Hagler became pastor. Hagler walks to the entrance of the community center and introduces himself to a new group. Then, guides with flashlights usher the audience away, to a room they call heaven. And Chris Hagler, 45, the pastor of the Rising Fawn Church of God, stays behind the flames, head tilted back, laughing. And surrounding the audience, men and women and children with painted faces crawl through the dirt on their bellies and clutch the air inches from the visitors. ![]() It is cold outside the South Dade Community Center on Friday night, and the fire is the lone source of light. "I knew you could never keep a promise!" he tells an audience of about 20. He stands behind waist-high flames, lifts his black hood and chuckles. A tour takes 20 to 30 minutes.' Admission: Free ' What: Hell House, performed by Rising Fawn Church of God' Where: South Dade Community Center, 259 School St., Rising Fawn' When: 7:30-11 p.m. ![]()
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