With much enthusiasm and zeal we chopped, saw, split and piled up a huge amount of wood. Twice as much as last year, Henk Swijnenburg claimed ... :)In doing this, we are helping Maria Meier who runs the therapeutic community Comunita Brezzano.
This year we came with eight people, six from the Netherlands and two from Slovenia: Ervin and Andreas. These two men have a lot of experience in cutting trees through their work for Teen Challenge in Slovenia, so we were very happy with such extra manpower.The temperature was around 35°C, so the Italians thought we were crazy for working that hard in the summer heat ... but we had planned to fill the basements with firewood for the winter!
The best thing is to see how quick we learn to work as a team and how a relationship develops between people who do not even know each other. The theme for the week was 'living victoriously'. We talked about it every night, read the Bible and shared experiences.Of course we also went to the beach for a relaxing day. Wow, such temperatures :)
We can look back at a beautiful week in which we learned a lot from each other and certainly from God Himself, who gave us the words to pray for one another through the Holy Spirit.Thank you very much to Adrie, Andreas, Anja, Ervin, Henk, Jan, Marc and Marja, for your hard work and servanthood. It was really nice to spend this week together. Who knows, there will be another chance next year!
We enjoy hard work as well as fundraising for the various projects. By the way, it was good to see the professional job they did on the repairs of Casa Nuova, we donated for that project last year.Thanks also to Adrie Swijnenburg for the pictures (click to enlarge).
Gifts for our current projects are always welcome at IBAN: NL91RABO0118582275 BIC: RABONL2U St. Traveling Light in Papendrecht. Project Teen Challenge, Armenia
Project Brian Slater, Israel
PS: Last week we were in Romania, a very special visit! More about that soon.