Barn Dance!

This is a very quick 'thank you' post to all who made is possible to hold, and all those who came along to, a fundraising Barndance and BBQ this evening.

The 'Scamping Rogues' were a fantastic band to dance to and the food was excellent. Aside from all the fun that was had, an incredible amount was raised towards our Church Community Project: a huge £331, which was in addition to the £100 given to the band's chosen charity, Novi Most International. Once again we have been blown away by the generosity of those who came along and supported us.

It was also noted just as we finished eating at 9pm that it was exactly one month until our flight will be leaving London Heathrow for Johannesburg... Exciting stuff indeed!

Once again, thanks for all your thoughts, prayer and support as we enter in to the final stages of our preparation and beyond.


Andrew

PS A few photos of the evening have now been uploaded to our Flickr account (see to the right of this blog entry)...

Cake Selling - Palmer Park 10/06/12

Dear all

I thought you might like to know the exact amount we raised yesterday at the cake sale at the East Reading Festival. It was £155.06! This will go to buying resources, either before we go to take out or when we are there.

Very many thanks to those who baked, helped lug stuff around and helped sell on the day. It was lovely selling the cakes as so many people were interested in what we were doing and said what a great thing it was. We even had our picture taken by the paper but not sure which one it was – I suspect reading Post rather than Daily Telegraph!!!!

Thanks again

Carrie

I see that we have had lots of people looking at our blog. It's a shame we can't see who they are or where they all come from.  However, I'm pretty certain that some will be from Spain, so a big 'Hola' to Eva's family in Marin, whenever you have a chance to have a look here!


I am am really looking forward to meeting the animal costumes! Does anyone have another parrot costume we could have so there is a pair to go on the Ark?


We have a few more fund raising events still to come and all the money from these will be going to buy resources either here for us to take to Siyabuswa or to buy when we are there.
They are as follows:


Sunday 10th June:Cake stall at East Reading Festival in Palmer Park


Saturday 23rd June: Barn Dance at Park URC - tickets are available from any of the team members. If you are able to, please come and support us and have a great family evening out.


Saturday 7th July: Craft Stall at Chorlton Park Primary School, Manchester - this is where Eva works and where 3 of our Team A attended school before moving to Reading. The staff there have all been very supportive of our project and we are very grateful to them.


Sunday 15th July: Family Fun Afternoon at Park URC - more info to follow. Contact one of the team if you are interested.


Preparations for the Church Community Project are now in full swing. 
There is an enormous list of things we could do whilst we are in Siyabuswa.
Please pray for us whilst we decide which of these we can do to the best of our abilities and which will have the most positive and lasting impact.


God bless, Suzy x