Quiz Night - Great Success

So, whilst Kevin, Dean & Steve were settling into their accommodation for the next two weeks in Sacele a fundraising Quiz Night & Hot Pot Supper was taking place at AMC.

The night was a great success with 70 people taking part in the church coffee bar and £355 being raised for the Better Homes charity.

Sue Taylor's Magnificent 7 were the worthy winners with Gordon Willmotts most unappropriately named 'Sexy 6' finishing somewhere in the middle!!

Many thanks to all who supported the event and those who gave up their time to prepare the superb hot pot and veggie alternative!

Posted by Steve E...

Touch down!

It's 25 degrees here on the outskirts of Bucharest, we landed safely and on time, great trip and Daniel has travelled down to meet us. However it is Friday late afternoon and just like home, the traffic is really very busy. I think it will be four hours before we arrive in Sacele. Steve is driving Daniels car! Dad and I are taking in the sights from the back seat, keep your eyes peeled Steve some of these drivers look a little irratic!

Today's the day!

Great journey down to Luton including time for a breakfast stop along the way. Arrived at the airport at 9.45 and went straight through 'Check in' without any problems. Dad set off the alarm buzzer at the security check, but what else can you do with a knee replacement! We then caught a reassuring site of our Wizz Air plane through the window. At quick glance everything about the plane seemed to be in the right place,a wing on each side and wheels underneath, you know the kind of thing!!

What to take!

Passport, tick
Tickets, tick
My Clothes, tick
Boots, tick
Money, tick
First Aid, tick
Childrens clothes from local Charity Shop, tick
Blanket from Handsworth, tick

Anything else....oops.....

Postal vote, cross, tick

Staircases!!

Dear Kevin,


I send you some photos of how the staircases look like at the moment. We need to come up with an idea of how we can make them safe for the children.

We will buy the materials after you arrive and visit the places. After that we can make a plan and a lits with the materials we need to buy.



Daniel

This time tomorrow

So the plan is this...
Jane and I drive to pick Steve up at 5.45, then to Holmes Chapel to pick Dad up at 6.15. Drive to Luton, yes Luton Airport but hopefully have a bacon butty on the way. We have already 'Checked in' on line, so we should be there in plenty of time to fly at 11.15.

Now some people are raising eyebrows (Peter Hardy) when I say we are flying with the strangely named Wizz Air. Shirley was kind enough to pray for them and us last night. We shall see tomorrow if they can deliver us and our luggage on time to Bucharest. We 'should' arrive at 4pm where Daniel will meet us.
From Bucharest we will have a three hour drive to our digs in Sacele on the outskirts of Brasov.

But that is all for tomorrow and today has only just begun. With packing still to do, a meeting and service at Handsworth tonight and Ron's Funeral its quite a busy day!!

Todays good news

Here is a message from Daniel to confirm that £13700 has safely been traNsferred!


Just to let you know that the funds arrived at our bank today. This should keep us busy for the whole year, will keep you updated on how the project is going.
Many thanks!
Daniel
FAST Charity in Romania

Knitters at Handsworth

Residents at our nearby Methodist Home (Handsworth) rose to the challenge of helping a family in Romania and have been busy knitting. Kerry who helps the residents with lots of different activities has encouraged the wonderful ladies to make a blanket. So here thay all are and also the finished blanket. Hopefully you will see a picture of the blanket arriving with a family. Thanks to all for the hardwork.  

My two apprentices

Look at the surprise on my face when my Dad asked if he could come with me to Romania. Good news.... I said yes and he is coming along with Steve Walker.

Some say Steve had not even seen a paint brush until January this year, now he is let loose on a Romanian Building site!

Please remember to pray for us while we are away.  

Volcano and Wizz Air!!!

People have been saying to me that maybe there are more reliable airlines to fly with than the unfortunately named Hungarian (only fly from Luton to Bucharest) company called Wizz Air. Well we'll soon see, Friday April 30th at 11:00am.

At least the Icelandic ash has gone now. Apparently it was a combination of Volcano dust, and the Cleaner at City tidying out the trophy cupboard on a windy day a couple of weeks ago!!!

Amazing Response from generous people

People have been so generous in giving money to support the work of FAST in Romania. I have been amazed that £13,700 has been raised. The money has been given by individual donations, gift from Church groups, even two local Primary Schools have helped. Navigation School in Altrincham had a non uniform day and all the children came dressed in any of the three colours of the Romania flag, you know what they are (yes you do!!!). Cloverlea School also had a non uniform day and this based on a theme of ‘Super Heros’, that was the children’s own idea. Between them they have raised over £600.

Even our son Matthew got in on the act and he cooked a fabulous three course meal (posh nosh) at Church with two of his mates who also full time chefs. I know the whole evening was a great success, even the waiters and waitresses enjoyed it as you can see from these pictures. Thank you Tom Andy and Matthew, we are very proud of you all and the evening raised over £1200.