![]() ![]() Through these rituals, our phones cease to be distant, technical objects In the March 2, 1887, edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, an article describes - and, I think, parodies - a mother who is afraid to call a home where someone has scarlet fever, as she is “sure that there would be great danger of infection over the wire.” In newspaper articles of the 1870s and ’80s, featuring such optimistic titles as “The New Terror” and “An Electrical Outrage,” commentators speculated that homes with telephones would soon become sites of “enormous danger,” their residents “bared to the least vibrations of the roaring world.” In one such article, the author imagines a mother with a baby in her arms sustaining “fatal injuries” after hearing a violent political polemic over the phone. Such concerns about the sanctity and intactness of the domestic sphere abound in early discourse about the telephone. Whereas Tesla focused on the potential for heightened - or, literally, extended - human connection, Haselden illustrates a world where pocket telephones, “the latest modern horror,” alienate us from our immediate embodied circumstances and disrupt precious moments of domestic intimacy. It depicts a harried gentleman disturbed at the most inopportune moments by his “pocket telephone,” which rings while he is at a concert with a date, while he is being handed a crying baby, and while he is escorting his bride down the aisle. Haselden published his own prophetic comic in the Daily Mirror. 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.Seven years before Nikola Tesla imagined (in a 1926 interview with Collier’s) a future in which wireless connection would allow us to “see and hear one another as though we were face to face” with “instruments … fit in our vest pockets,” the British cartoonist W.K. ![]() 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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