This is Bernie... He is a legend. He is currently running around like a lunatic, attempting to ensure that all the Re:Act fun days happen as planned and all the team members and leaders get to the training residential on Friday. We trapped him in a corner long enough to ask him what things he's trying to get done today in order to ensure everything is ready in time...One of the big things is that he needs to pick up a whole bunch of marquees from South Wales - basically an 8-hour round trip from Luton and while he's planning this 'errand', he's also trying to negotiate with a foreign embassy to ensure that some of our foreign-based team members can get proper visas in time. He's just helped unload the van from this weekend's Spree (a youth camp down in Sussex) as much of it is required for the Re:Act road crews or is needed to set up the residential at YWAM's HQ in Harpenden. He's constantly being transfered calls and tapping away at emails from various team leaders and local coordinators, anxious to get an answer or to pass on some crucial information and on top of this, I'm hassling him for news stories to post on our Urban Saints website!
And just when he thought he had the weekend to himself, to relax, unwind and escape from the Re:Act chaos for 48 hours, he had to go on a saturday morning radio show...
The man is hero and a lot of what we will seemlessly experience on this year's Re:Act will have been his responsibility or at least he'll have had his hand in. Bernie - we salute you!
[P.S. Bernie would be the first to say this, I'm sure, but there are simply loads of other people who have been working hard behind the scenes to ensure this ground-breaking mission experience is a success and we salute them all also. But it is the fact that he would be the first to admit this, that makes Bernie even more of a legend IMHO...]
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