As well as the team going to Hungary, which I am part of, All Souls is also sending a team to Hong Kong/China and on 30th May we held a quiz which included a Cake Auction and an Auction of things that money cannot buy. This was was in order to raise money for both trips.
It took a team of four, two from Hungary team and 2 from Hong Kong China team, 4 weeks to organise this, it was a bit stressful but good... and included many emails, meetings over food and coffee and prayer both individual and collectively. But even if we got stressed at times, everything worked out, because in the end it really was 5 of us in the team as God was working with us.
On the 30th May, the day started at 2pm with some of us gathering in St Paul's Robert Adam Street (an All Souls building) to start cooking the dinner, which involved cutting onions (and crying!), grating cheese, washing lettuce (which apparently was like washing hair!) etc etc. Being part of the kitchen team was fun, loads of banter. The food, cooked mainly by Ann-Sofie and Maria (Swedish girls on the China team) was fantastic, everyone loved it and people even went back for seconds.
Then there was setting up tables, decorating them with flowers and candles, planning the music, setting up the quiz powerpoint, taking the food from kitchen up to the serving room (thankfully there was a food lift), making sure everyone felt welcome, got a table to sit at, serve the food, do the auction, collect the empty plates, do the quiz, wash dishes, do the cake auction (one cake went for £140, how great was that), finish the quiz, announce the winner, count the money, clear home, go home and SLEEP!!.
A busy night but great fun, even though I did get stressed in middle of it, I enjoyed it and so did the punters and we raised a lot of money.
No comments:
Post a Comment