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Welcome to the Whitburn Pentecostal Church Bulgaria blog!

In 2010 a team travelled from Whitburn in West Lothian Scotland to South Bulgaria. While we there, we built a water source for a village of Romany outcasts who had no running water, electricity or other basic amenities.

This year (2011) we are going to Bulgaria again. This time we have sent a container of equipment donated by local schools in Scotland to be distributed amongst various sites in Bulgaria. Perhaps the best part of this is the childrens playground equipment that we will be installing in a primary school in one of the major cities in South Bulgaria.

Because Bulgaria is a Muslim country and because of security concerns, we cannot name our contacts or be specific about the location of the work being done in a public forum like this blog so apologies if sometimes the writing seems vague.

This blog will help you to follow the project as we prepare to go out, while we are there delivering the equipment and, hopefully, making a real difference to the lives of our Bulgarian friends.

Sunday, 7 August 2011

Three weeks to go!

Arrgh! We fly out three weeks today! Still to do:

  1. Order all the new nuts and bolts to hold the playground together (Chuck's going to see if the council have what we need before we hunt through the builders yards)
  2. Order the Bulgarian currency (Lev)
  3. Get an itinerary - apart from the playground at the school, we don't know where we are going. Our contact is working this out and we may never find out the whole plan as we will split into smaller teams when we get there! Also, although our contact has the full list of what's in the container, it will have been difficult for them to comprehend the sheer amount of stuff.
  4. Organise a hotel for night 1 in Sofia when we arrive.
  5. Organise hotels for all the subsequent nights (until we know where we are going, we can't book the hotels but there should be no problem)
  6. Organise transport for all of the team plus our contacts while in Bulgaria
  7. Organise a big van (or two) to take the equipment to the various destinations (you can't just go to a van hire company like you can here in the UK!)
  8. etc.etc.etc.
We also just heard that not only will we be joined once again by Doug Webber (last year Doug dug like no-one I have ever seen!) but also by Albert (also from Convoy of Hope). You'll notice I have already forgotten  Alberts surname - Sorry Albert!

Can't wait for the trip to start now!
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