Following
our discussions at the club, we decided to save “Buckets of pennies for buckets of
water”. This took place during the holiday club and continued in church throughout August.
Yesterday
we collected in the buckets and Joyce, Gordon and I (with welcome help from
Hannah) spent over two hours counting and bagging the money.
[Hannah
arrived part way through “the counting” with a bag of coins from home, because
she and her family had been away all summer and thus unable to contribute
before. When she saw us ploughing
through all the coins she very kindly offered to help. We were very grateful to her as without her
help we’d probably have been there all afternoon!]
Anyway, all
the hard work was well worth while as the final count revealed that the buckets
had contained £181.36!
In addition
to this £156.45 had been raised at WOW3 itself because nobody would accept
payment for any of the resources or items for the items for the “shop” that they contributed to the club!
So,
altogether we are sending £181.45 + £156.45 + £60.00 (i.e. £397.81) to
WaterAid.
Thank you
everyone for your prayers, generosity and hard work.
For more information on
WaterAid visit http://www.wateraid.org
