Wednesday, 23 July 2008
At the Car Wash
Sunday 13th June saw the Hungary Wetfoot team arrive at All Souls Church at 8.45am (so early!), barely awake, but ready and willing to wash people's cars for them whilst they were in church.
Agi and I were placed in the rotunda, so when everyone came past us, they heard the shout, "do you want your car washed,?". Some did and some didn't, altogether we washed 32 cars, most of them were parked near the church but one person parked in Cleveland Street and we had to walk there and wash his car.... but hey it was all worth it in the end, as we raised £700 (including gift aid).
BEFORE
AFTER
Everyone seemed very appreciative for the work that we did: one person said "You guys did an excellent job yesterday ! It hasn’t been as clean as that for ages" - so there you go. Hard work for those washing cars and a clean car for those sitting in church whilst car was being washed.....
Agi and I were placed in the rotunda, so when everyone came past us, they heard the shout, "do you want your car washed,?". Some did and some didn't, altogether we washed 32 cars, most of them were parked near the church but one person parked in Cleveland Street and we had to walk there and wash his car.... but hey it was all worth it in the end, as we raised £700 (including gift aid).
Am sure people walking and driving past Langham Place/Riding Street that day were wondering what we were doing - I think some of the tourists on the big red buses thought it was a tourist attraction, cos they were taking pictures of us!
There was one car, which was so caked in dirt that it took Ava and Jan one hour to wash... hope the owners appreciated the time and hard work put into it! Did they do a good job, judge for yourself with the before and after pictures below:BEFORE
AFTER
Everyone seemed very appreciative for the work that we did: one person said "You guys did an excellent job yesterday ! It hasn’t been as clean as that for ages" - so there you go. Hard work for those washing cars and a clean car for those sitting in church whilst car was being washed.....
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Hungarian Lesson
On Saturday 5th July, we all met at my house for a BBQ and also to learn some Hungarian - this was a fun night. I am not very good at learning languages so am bit scared that what I learn will go in one ear and out the other and when am in Hungary will get toungue tied - but will live in trust and hope this does not happen.
Here are some key phrases that we learnt:
Here are some key phrases that we learnt:
Igen - Yes
Nem - No
Szia - Hello (to an individual)
Sziastock - Hello (to a group of people)
Viszontlátásra - Goodbye
Köszönöm - Thank you
Isten - God
Jó reggelt - Good Morning (say before 9am)
Jó napot - Good Day (say after 9am)
Jó estét - Good Evening
Jó éjszakát - Good Night
So my name is Jó in Hungarian, said like Yo.... and it means good which means I must be good! Wonder if anyone would agree with that!
Saturday, 5 July 2008
August Prayers
I put up prayer requests for June and July, but here are some prayer requests for the time we are away in August:
- For safe travel (by plane and road) to Nyirtelek
- For the Sunday Services at the church in Nyirtelek
- For the team as we begin work
- For the annual children's camp that the church runs
- Team health and unity
- For the children's enjoyment of the organised activities
- For the children to begin to understand who Jesus is
- Thanks for the Church in Hungary
- For the team as they rest at the weekend in Budapest
- For the relationship with the Church family
- For the gypsy work as it begins
- For the gypsies to understand more of the love of Jesus and to see that through the team
- For continued blessing for the Church ar Nyirtelek
- For the large service to be held as the gypsy holiday finishes
- For safe team travel to London
- For those who help with translation
- For church leader: Misi Gyorfi
Monday, 23 June 2008
Team Principles
On the weekend away, we decided to come up with some principles for which are team should go by when we are in Hungary, the following 5 are what we came up with:
Glorifying God by being Jesus-centred!
Being prayerful!
Encouragement!
Humble Unity!
“Be Ready”!
And one I am adding myself - 'Don't forget to Enjoy ourselves and laugh'
Friday, 13 June 2008
Silence is Golden
Well, in order to help me raise money for Hungary trip, I decided to do a sponsored silence. This was the third time in 4 years that I have done it, and it doesn't get any easier.
The sponsored silence took place from 10am 6/6/08 - 10am 7/6/08. But in actual fact I had not spoken from midnight on the 5/6/08, so instead of doing 24 hours, I really did 36 hours. But am not really counting the first 12 hours as was asleep for them.
What did I do on my day of silence? Did I lie in bed all day and hide from the world? No
I started off the day watching three episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Season 3 (bit addicted to this), then left my house and went down to my sister's house - she was not there, so watched 5 episodes of Heros Season 2 and the best episodes of House (Three Stories) and West Wing (Two Cathedrals) and lay on her sofa... so did hide for part of it!
Then when Chris came home at 5pm, the note writing, the shrugging and trying to get across what I was saying via hand gestures started! It was quite funny and apparently my hand writing is atrocious. We went to Wagamama's for dinner, think the waitress thought I was ungrateful as I never said thank you and just grabbed the fork from her! and then we went to Shakespeare's Globe to see 'Midsummer Night's Dream'.
The Globe was the most difficult part as I wanted to talk about the play, ask questions about what was happening etc - but managed to not talk. Apart from frustrating moments here and a peaceful night for my sister, Saturday was relatively ok in the not talking stakes.
Sunday morning, saw me heading out to church for the 9.30 service. It was hard when I got to church as had no one to translate for me, as my interpreter was late arriving!, but found a friend and stood beside her, she teased me and tried to get me to talk my standing on my foot.... ouch!At that time only had 20 minutes left, was counting down the minutes.
Eventually my friend/interpreter arrived and we went in and sat in church, how annoying to be in church with great songs being sang and not allowed to sing as you are on a vow of silence! That was frustrating, but then as soon as 10am came, I uttered the words, "I can talk now" what a relief to me, but maybe not to others!
My friend said it is only 9.58, but with my watch it was 10am so I was talking no matter what! Well actually could not talk as was in church, but at least I could sing... la la la
I am very grateful to everyone who has given so generously to my sponsored silence fundraising, all the monies received as made it possible for me to reach my target amount. Am so pleased and thankful for everyone's support.
The sponsored silence took place from 10am 6/6/08 - 10am 7/6/08. But in actual fact I had not spoken from midnight on the 5/6/08, so instead of doing 24 hours, I really did 36 hours. But am not really counting the first 12 hours as was asleep for them.
What did I do on my day of silence? Did I lie in bed all day and hide from the world? No
I started off the day watching three episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Season 3 (bit addicted to this), then left my house and went down to my sister's house - she was not there, so watched 5 episodes of Heros Season 2 and the best episodes of House (Three Stories) and West Wing (Two Cathedrals) and lay on her sofa... so did hide for part of it!
Then when Chris came home at 5pm, the note writing, the shrugging and trying to get across what I was saying via hand gestures started! It was quite funny and apparently my hand writing is atrocious. We went to Wagamama's for dinner, think the waitress thought I was ungrateful as I never said thank you and just grabbed the fork from her! and then we went to Shakespeare's Globe to see 'Midsummer Night's Dream'.
The Globe was the most difficult part as I wanted to talk about the play, ask questions about what was happening etc - but managed to not talk. Apart from frustrating moments here and a peaceful night for my sister, Saturday was relatively ok in the not talking stakes.
Sunday morning, saw me heading out to church for the 9.30 service. It was hard when I got to church as had no one to translate for me, as my interpreter was late arriving!, but found a friend and stood beside her, she teased me and tried to get me to talk my standing on my foot.... ouch!At that time only had 20 minutes left, was counting down the minutes.
Eventually my friend/interpreter arrived and we went in and sat in church, how annoying to be in church with great songs being sang and not allowed to sing as you are on a vow of silence! That was frustrating, but then as soon as 10am came, I uttered the words, "I can talk now" what a relief to me, but maybe not to others!
My friend said it is only 9.58, but with my watch it was 10am so I was talking no matter what! Well actually could not talk as was in church, but at least I could sing... la la la
I am very grateful to everyone who has given so generously to my sponsored silence fundraising, all the monies received as made it possible for me to reach my target amount. Am so pleased and thankful for everyone's support.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
