![]() This week, we’ve got some insights from the high-profile actors from the movie themselves about the filming in Ireland as well as a now retired Colonel who was charged with taking care of the soldiers and keeping them in line. THIS IS WHAT Hollywood actor Mel Gibson had to say about the 1,500 members of the Irish Defence Forces who played his army in the Oscar winning battle movie Braveheart.Īs part of our series on the 20th anniversary of the film’s production in Ireland, last week we showed you what it was like for the extras on set every day. Like any group of young men, they’re probably 75% smartasses but they’re okay. Please let us know if you would like to develop a Sheds of Hope kit building team as we would love for you to join the movement.They’re terrific, you know, they’ve been really good, really professional. MNA Disaster Response has 31 Sheds of Hope kits ready to go, but many more are needed. The MNA Disaster Response Dallas Depot has 11. The MNA Disaster Response Warehouse currently has 20 ready-to-go Sheds of Hope. Love had found a way! The Sheds of Hope teams are finding a way! Lake Oconee PCA team members using their ‘smart bench’ and templates to cut materials. On the envelope was a large sticker in the shape of a heart. ![]() Later he noticed a small white envelope stuck beneath the door. He had just secured the door for the night with four locks, two deadbolts, and a chain latch. ‘Our Daily Bread’, the well known monthly devotional, recently published a devotional about a cartoon that depicted a sour, disgruntled, elderly gentleman standing in rumpled pajamas and robe at his apartment door. Plains PCA-Zachary LA, Covenant PCA-Auburn AL, and Memorial PCA-Elizabethton TN, are also grappling with how best to build Sheds of Hope kits during this time. Love will find a way! Lake Oconee PCA is not the only church Sheds of Hope team being innovative and finding a way to be fruitful during this time. For now it is, “ HOLD… HOLD… HOLD!“ Masks, gloves and safe distances! They are looking forward to the day when the entire team can be together serving again. New protocols include less team members working at any one time, wearing masks, using hand sanitizer, maintaining distances, etc. The team leaders put much thought and efforts perfecting a procedure that allows them to continue ministry. Undertaking any type of construction during this time is a challenge. Lake Oconee PCA team members maintaining social distancing while holding the line.īuilding Sheds of Hope kits is construction, light construction, but construction just the same. They have been cautiously holding the line, complying with social distancing mandate, but staying busy staying on mission. Take a look at the following pictures of a recent Shed of Hope build by Lake Oconee Presbyterian Church. Our network of relief providers have been innovative in finding ways to cautiously take steps during this time that will allow our teams to rapidly restart operations when it is safe. Meanwhile, our team of staff and volunteers have been investing massive amounts of time and effort preparing for that day, so that when it comes we may do so safely. One day MNA Disaster Response, including Sheds of Hope, will be cleared to again mobilize volunteers. We do continue to register volunteers who are chomping at the bit, as they say, to re-engage at worksites. ![]() Our stance for now continues to be, “HOLD… HOLD… HOLD!” Above all, we don’t have the capacity to thwart God’s providence in the current events unfolding around us. Robust mobilization of volunteers during the ‘safer-in-place’ mandate is not allowed and likely will not be allowed for some time to come. ![]() Using this scene as an analogy for our volunteer mobilization efforts, the approaching cavalry is the fear of missed opportunity to serve. ![]()
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