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Tragedy struck the Fireproof team this past weekend.  One of the professional team members, Chip Monk, was involved in a fatal car accident Sunday evening near Gainesville, Florida.

My assistant, Hayley, has more details on her blog.

Please pray for his wife, who is pregnant with their first child, and family.

Filming was stopped until after the Thanksgiving holidays.  Jim and Alex went to Florida to help and minister to the family for the week.  Many more will be attending the funeral tomorrow.

Last Saturday was the annual RiverFront Run here in Albany. For the second time, I ran in this race. I was able to beat last year’s time with 27:42 and moved to 102nd place.

Though I improved on last year’s race, I was once again bummed at my race time. I was hoping to pick up where I left off last year by finishing around 26:00. My wife says I should be happy since the two weeks prior training consisted of two 1.5 miles runs and 3 flag football games.

My doctor did very well finishing 3rd in his age division with a race time of 21:01. Congrats to Bill.

I will miss the Chili Run this year, but hoping to do better in Jiggle Bell Jog.

The big weekend is here! The training camp will be tomorrow. I am not sure what’s involved except that everybody needs to be there and at some point, the entire script will be read through. It will be a big day for volunteers as they will be trained in their various roles - lights, sound, film, catering, set building, etc.

Filming begins Monday morning and will continue off and on for the rest of the year minus the holidays.

If you are interested in the main cast, an almost complete list has been posted over on the Sherwood website. You might be surprised by at least one name on the list. I will add a link after the announcement Sunday morning.

Dee and I have both been offered a spot as “extras” in one of the scenes. I am more excited about it than Dee. These roles came about from our tryouts for the main roles. You can read about that experience here.

Update: Here is the link to the cast of Fireproof.

This was a big week for the next movie from Sherwood Pictures.

First, the first version of the script was completed this week.

Second, all but one of the main characters have been chosen.

Locations are being scouted out.

Filming begins pretty soon.

I received some anonymous mail today. It was not the ominous kind that you know is going to be bad and hateful but your morbid curiosity leads you to read what it says anyway.  It looked like a greeting card which turned out to be a thank you note for the work I do around the church. Included with the card was $50 dollars in cash. I did not see this one coming. Very nice.

So, thank you very much to the person or people who were involved in this kind gesture. I doubt you even know I have a blog, but if you do, here is a thank you for you. I feel appreciated.

As for the cash, I plan to take Dee out on a nice date.