Two weeks to go!

Even more ARRRGGHH!

Only two weeks to go and most of the items on the 'Three weeks to go!' blog post are still outstanding!

Although our mission to Bulgaria is humanitarian rather than evangelistic, we do come into contact with people from local Christian churches who manage to exist alongside the almost totally dominant Muslim people. We also had the great pleasure, last year, of speaking to interested people about God and also praying for folk for healing etc.

We have a baptism this morning in church and it reminds me about last years trip to Bulgaria where we ended up going down to a local river and conducting baptism for a young man that Bobby had been talking. This young man had been attending a small church, run by some of our friends, for some of the Romany people who are treated like outcasts by most Bulgarians. Now, I have been to open air baptisms before, but most of them have been in Scottish rivers and lochs where hypothermia is a real risk, but this was completely different! It was a cool day by Bulgarian standards and there was quite a breeze but, compared to Scotland, it was a beautiful summers day. The river was warm and, after the baptism, many of us went for a swim across the river. (Some of you ay remember the 'famous' picture of pastor Andrew walking on the water?) We were able to dry naturally in the sun and wind which is something you don't generally do in Scotland unless you fancy losing extremities to frostbite!

Really looking forward to going now! I ordered my Bulgarian currency (Lev) on Friday and will pick it up on Monday. That's when I know it will become even more real. The smallest denomination in Bulgaria has a great name - "Stotinky'. It even sounds like something small that chinks in your pocket. Imagine children spotting money on the round and shouting 'stotinky, stotinky' in the way our kids shout 'a penny!'

Hopefully I will blog more over the next two weeks as more news arrives about the container and the team start to discover all those things they have yet to do!