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Our church community has a wonderful knack of bringing rain to drought-stricken Melbourne. Although we are eight years into a drought, each of our community activities manages to attract rain.
Yesterday afternoon and evening we held a sausage sizzle, followed by a prayer vigil, to raise funds to assist the work of organisations working in Southern Asia in the wake of the tsunami. Our sausage sizzle came to an abrupt end when the heavens opened and rain pelted down - but not before we had raised over $1100. (The church will add another $1000 to that effort).
Our previous sausage sizzle to raise funds for the Darfur region of Western Sudan, turned out to be the coldest and wettest day in Melbourne in over 20 years.
And to top it off, every other event (three carols in the Park and a community concert in April) also brought the rain!
I wonder if the farmers would sponsor us at appropriate times to help their crops :-)
Posted by gary at January 8, 2005 11:17 AM
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