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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.

Thursday, 1 September 2011

I forgot to say...

I forgot to say, Mark has been kidnapped. I knew there was something else I had to write but it completely slipped my mind. Dont't panic though. He has been kidnapped by our contact P_. She says she is his new mother. She has his passport and won't give it back so has has to stay here forever. She is feeding him up as she says he is too thin. The other day, in the resturant, she had cake, on a fork, and was flying it towards Marks mouth with a 'vrooom' sound. All very well until you realise that Mark will be 21 next month! Especially embarassing as we have been joined by a very pretty bulgarian girl, just a little younger than Mark and they get on well. Poor guy! He is taking it all very well but may 'break' soon!

We had a really loud thunder storm in the mountains yesterday. It was deafening! Bobby and Chuck couldn't decide if it was louder than their snoring though. Chuck said he was trying to get to sleep last night but Bobby had dropped off first and he was snoring so loud Chuck was going to hit him with his shoe! Bobby said it couldn't have been as loud as Chuck who woke the people in the next hotel with his snoring!

We had no water this morning so nobody could wash/shave etc. Doug suggested we all take our shampoo to the pool and get clean there. Chuck and Bobby wanted to flush their toilet but, of course having no water, they had to improvise. 4 litres of Coca-Cola into the cistern. It cleaned the pipes a treat but, when they flushed, it fizzed up and out of the bowl causing a lot of noise from BobbaChuck that we all heard. Thankfully the water was restored during breakfast. Doug could get his 'quaffee' so that stopped hime being more grumpy than usual and everyone else got washed.

Apologies to those of you who wanted to leave comments on the blog by the way. I have changed the settings so that you don't have to register with google etc first. Please be sensitive and do not post abusive blogs or anything that gives away exactly where we are and who our contacts are.

Lots of deliveries to do now so back later....
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