No, it wasn't anyone's birthday, but on Saturday our church held our annual Fête, which is a sort of market we set up each year, organizing booths to sell various goods. This year we had a used book booth, a white elephant sale, a used clothing booth, a sausage stand, a pancake sale (or I believe so, but I never actually saw it), a vegetable stand, and a cake sale. There may have been others, but I was busy selling vegetables until pretty late in the sale, so I didn't get to tour around while everything was still in full swing. All in all I believe it was a fairly successful event, raising funds for the church budget and drawing our community closer together.
It was nice to see different members of the community out and around browsing the church and enjoying themselves. In the midst of it all I actually gave one couple a tour of the church, it's nice to have people interested in who we are and what we're doing. We officially opened the doors at 9am, but there were people there well before that, I think our vegetables were all but sold out by 9:30 (though it took another two hours to sell off the excess cabbage and beetroot). The Fête was over by 11:30, but in that time we did well, I think everyone went away satisfied with the day.
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Glad to hear it was a successful event. The Diocese of Rumbek is looking for fundraisers if you're looking for something new when you're done in Turkey.
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