Crowning Lori B Y S H E L LY PA I N O
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ou know you are working in God’s will when He pushes you to use your gifting, gives you a project that will point people to Him, and surrounds you with a sisterhood of women chomping at the bit to serve Him. That is the overarching picture of the team God has fashioned to create the film Crowning Lori. Sit with this group of women long enough, and it becomes evident how much they’ve learned from each other since God brought them together. Their backgrounds are vastly different. Actress Candace recharges by hiking to waterfalls or praying in her closet, wallpapered with prayer
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COLLABORATION IS A GIFT. WE NEED ENCOURAGEMENT TO STAY IN THE RACE WHEN WEARY. requests. Tina, also an actress, is as likely to tell stories about Frank Sinatra as she would her beloved pups or beautiful quarter horse, Journey Boy. Editor and filmmaker Holly names among her most recent ventures film projects dear to her heart and a ranch house she and her husband built while living in a cramped travel trailer. Producer and photographer Christine can often be found traipsing to far-flung parts of the country with her two young adult actor kids. And Shelly traded her number-crunching day job and commute to sit with her laptop in her backyard typing screenplays.
