“Norm's Comedy and Illusions are some of the best I've seen. And there's something extra that Norm provides that I can't quite put my finger on. Perhaps it's his love of people, or his ability to entertain without inappropriate content. That's important to me. In fact, it's important to most everyone.”
Lisa Barry – KTIS-FM
Is your church looking for comedy entertainment for a banquet, teen program, or family night? Norm's a clean comedian that brings laughter to your special events.
Are you looking for an inspirational program that will motivate your families? Norm's your guy!
Norm’s presentation “The Good News” is a dynamic program that grabs kids (and adults) attention and encourages them to read their Bibles.
What They Say::
“Thank you for your tremendous presentation at our Fall Festival. I would recommend you most highly.” C. John Steer – Senior Pastor – First Baptist, Rochester, MN (appearances here 4 times)
“Thank you for a terrific program at our church. We had over 400 people from birth to grandparents and all had a wonderful time. I was so pleased to see how you are able to reach every age group represented. You are truly gifted! … There are many performers out there, but very few who have the gift of communicating through their performance. You are a communicator! Your performance was professional and of high quality, but more importantly you perform with your heart. Thank you for sharing your heart with us.”
Greg Baily – Pastor of Children’s Ministries Crystal Evangelical Free Church
“A very enjoyable and entertaining evening. We especially appreciate your spiritual applications with the tricks.” Major David Carr – The Salvation Army, Minneapolis, MN
“I would highly recommend him to all churches and to all age groups. His magic and message are truly inter-generational. All of our people thoroughly enjoyed him.” David R. Johnson, Sr. Pastor, First Covenant Church, River Falls, WI
“I love to look out on the sea of children’s faces as they gaze with anticipation at what you are doing. You do a great job of intertwining ‘magic’ and scripture! Thanks so much!” Faith Erickson Children’s Ministry Director – Woodland Hills Church – St. Paul, MN (appearances here 8 times)
“You are a gifted communicator in this medium. You are extremely creative – I know this comes from the Lord who gives you ideas to communicate His ideas.” Char Veenstra - Coordinator of Kid’s Summer Sunday School Calvary Baptist, Roseville (appearances here numerous times)
“High energy and a great message, I would recommend Norm Barnhart … he did an outstanding performance. The children were captivated with the his deliverance
of the gospel message and they really enjoyed themselves.” Jim Rosene – Associate Pastor of Children’s Ministries, First Evangelical Free Church, Rockford, IL.
Please consider how Norm can bring his program to your group.
MagicNorm.com 651-257-7116 St. Paul, MN
Norm brings lots of laughs to your event. Youngsters through sixth grade love it. The sometimes hard to reach Jr. High and H.S. age group have a blast, and adults leave saying they had more fun than the kids. People of all ages enjoy the clean comedy and optical illusions that Norm brings. He is an expert magician with over 28 years full time experience and even won 1st Place in America’s Funniest Magician Contest in Las Vegas in 2007. He has appeared 12 times at Knott’s Camp Snoopy, He has appeared for 3 years on the Christian Kid’s TV show “The Solid Rock Kid’s Café. He has written 4 children’s magic books that are in libraries across the country. He’s worked Sonshine Music Festival in Willmar, MN and the Christian Music Cruise with artists including Rush of Fools, Dallas Holm, Casting Crowns, Toby Mac, Matthew West and The Afters.
Norm was invited to perform for families as a part of a comedy show on a Cruise for K-LOVE Radio. He also presented magic for the guests waiting to meet their favorite music artists. Here Norm visits with ….. Mark Hall Casting Crowns.
Norm is a gifted teacher and writer who is invited to many conferences to speak and teach his methods of comedy writing, magical inventions, balloon tricks as well present workshops on Scripture skits and Gospel object lessons with illusions and Biblical illustrations to go with balloon creations.
He has been invited to speak as the President’s Choice Keynote and teach his methods to other artists at the International Convention of the Fellowship for Christians Magicians (ventriloquists, chalk artists, puppeteers and clowns). He has taught at University Wisconsin in LaCrosse 7 times for conference for clown and family entertainers. Many other conventions and conferences have invited him to teach his original inventions and methods to entertainers and children’s workers. Most recently in February of 2009 he was closing act and taught at Williamsburg, VA for a conference of entertainers. In May of 2009 he taught and was keynote speaker at a conference in Calgary Canada and in August he taught and keynoted in Indianapolis for the Smiles Conference – people who bring humor to hospitals, nursing homes and churches. Other entertainers invite him to teach hem how to improve their skills. They want original and unique presentations on ways to improve their presentations so they invite Norm.
This November he is teaching and performing at Daytona Beach for the Florida Magician’s association with 600+ in attendance. Next summer Norm is set to go to Singapore to teach and perform for other entertainers at an international conference. Most of the time he is just out doing his program around Minnesota and Wisconsin - making people laugh and spreading his encouraging message.
This past weekend he was opening act once more for Sheila Raye Charles, the gifted daughter of legend Ray Charles as they did a fund-raiser for Jail Ministries at Brooklyn Park Evangelical Free Church. The night before he performed for a fund raiser for Changing Gaits a Retreat center and outreach program that uses horses to help those in recovery.
In the secular world, he is a clean comedian who gets good reviews from corporate adult crowds as well as family audiences such as - Radio Disney said, “Great job … fabulous entertainment … Highly engaging shows.” Check MagicNorm.com for more comments from corporate audience as well as fairs and festivals.
For the week long Camps and Retreats, Norm can present 20-25 minute kick off sessions each morning and has three different 45 minute programs to draw material from to fit your needs.
Sessions could be matched to your topics or touch on a verse and tailored to fit your theme.
Norm’s general themes include:
* God is so Good! – Think about how good God is to give us the Bible so we can learn about him.
* The Good News! - The Bible – let’s open it and read it (motivational program that promotes scripture reading)
* Becoming Disciples - Discipleship – Norm has several short routines on seeing the value of going to Church and Sunday School. These can be interspersed to put together in to a 20 minute program.
* Scripture Skits – Audience volunteers become the stars of the show as Norm sets the stage and narrates from Scripture and the kids act out the scene or parable. It’s fun, often very funny - yet deeply touching. These presentations help kids understand the scripture and help it get deeper into their mind as they actually act out the parts.
*** And finally – a program designed for teens, but all ages enjoy: program titled:
“How to Have Beautiful Feet” - based on the verse, “How beautiful are the feet on the mountain that bring Good News.” Christianity is not about sitting around – but going and spreading the good news about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This program is about the Why and How of telling others about Jesus - evangelism. Get motivated and get going – it’s time to spread good news!!
Prison Ministry: Norm also has an evangelistic program that he takes to teens in prison that is inspired by Frances Shaeffer’s Trilogy; The God Who is There, He is There and He is Not Silent & How Then Shall we Live? There is comedy and illustrations, but it is also a challenging gospel presentation.
MagicNorm.com 651-257-7116 St. Paul, MN