HD is for hair dye.

In my last post I mentioned that one of young people I work with went to Nicuagua to suport the Street Child World Cup (SCWC) on behalf on the methodist church. Well this Saturday sees one of our football fun fundraising events take place! This is going to be so different from so many other fundraising events I've done in the past, as this is very family orientated, and there is someone I know who has been affected and been out and looked at the conditions and the way peoples lives can be changed. 

Most of the fundraising I've done has been very different. Some has been for charity's I know like guide dogs, which obviously affected me directly but also indirectly, but others have been for topical charity's. 

In my high school days I thought it would be great to dress in orange from head to toe, and raise funds for the tsunami appeal. (Why orange? Because satsuma and tsunami in my mind sounded simmilar) 

I did ten star jumps for fifty pence and jogged a bit sang a few songs and was generally enthusiastically  a bit mad. I can't remember how much I raised, but the money went to someone far away, who I was vaguely connected to because we live on the same planet and I'd heard about it on the news. Yes it fired up my need to help, and I was as passionate as I could be at the time but Saturday will be different.

When we hear the total, as we have done a fair bit of fundraising already, I will look at the young person who was out there, it might sound strange, but to me I can almost see the people who will benefit in here eyes. I can see how much it means to her, for them and that, more than the promotional videos, more than the songs, or prayers inspires me. Her compassion almost calls to mine. I'm helping organise this event, which is also very different from handing money over to a teacher after doing a few star jumps while singing postman pat (I hated that song but it was worth a pound!) 

It's going to be chaos! But good chaos! And I'm glad to do my part.

Alright so what has that do do with hair dye?

Well, before I get to that I'd better update you a bit further. I am delighted to say that the college I applied for accepted me!  I'll be starting in October on the YMM course. But I'm also going to summer school in June, nervous and excited and eager to start sums up how I feel in a few words but the feelings are so much bigger! Sometimes I'll catch myself smiling when I'm thinking about it as I do little things like emptying the dishwasher or making a cupper sometimes I find I'm immpatient to start, but I'm  stopping my immpatient feelings by reading the books, (so far I have one, I'm looking for cheaper copy's of the others!) in that one book, so far there is already so much I didn't understand. I hope I can keep up!

Local preaching wise I've now had my fourth on trial service and my second assessment, like YMM there is so much to learn still, but I'm still loving learning. Things are strangely starting to make sence now in a way they didn't before and instead of flat words with one message it's almost like the word is becoming alive, some parts are so big I can walk round them and look at them from every angle and still not grasp it all. My old love of words and their meanings and origins is slowly being bellowed back into fire, but I still get worried that I'll not have room for all this knowledge so I'm trying to stay calm and focused. It's very easy to go off to somewhere different when you start looking at Greek word origins! 

My next service is a family service, I'm looking foward to the challenge but feel I need a bit of advice before I start tackling it, so I'll ask. After Saturday.

My poor mum was taken ill agin this Friday, so I spent a lot of Friday in hospital with her, she's home now, but there is still no obvious answer to her shakes.

So, hair dye. 

Obviously from before my tsunami satsuma days... I've always been... Well a little odd.  And last year (or maybe the year before that) I decided that I would donate my hair to the little princess trust. Well it's now at its length. So it's ready to be cut off and posted. Hooray!

So last week I had a thought, I could after a little while of not being able to dye my hair. But why not do it for SCWC? Since yesterday people have been picking colours and donating, (I've raised £75! So far! Better than doing star jumps for 50p...)

So by Saturday night my short hair, will be a mass of crazy colour (even some glow in the dark!) and hopefully I will have raised a little more.  

Tonight I've had a patch test done to make sure I'm not allergic to they dye, and so far so good! 

 I'm gonna miss my dark hair, but like college I'm also quite excited. :)

So if you can spare a prayer, please think of us on Saturday doing our bit. And please please pray for all the SCWC teams.

God bless you. 

Trish XxX