The team heads off tomorrow

The next team to go out will be leaving Woodgreen at 6.30am tomorrow morning to travel to London Gatwick airport to fly out to Odessa.

The team comprising of 3 men from Woodgreen and 3 from North Wales will be out in Odessa for the week continuing the work on Transition House.

We hope to keep the blog updated with our progress as well as photos of the work.

Keep checking for updates or sign up to the email link.

Car Wash

A huge thanks to everyone involved in the recent car wash, all those that came along to wash the cars, cook and serve the breakfasts.

A particular thanks to everyone who brought their cars and donated more than £700 to the project.

We will be taking this money along with some more previously given to Odessa on 21st September.

Still time to sign up for the next trip

There is still time to sign up for the next trip to Odessa. We now have a team who will be going out from Saturday 21st - Saturday 28th September. There are still some places available if you act fast.

Speak to John or Paul at Woodgreen, Ian or Paul at Gwersyllt or email us at odessaproject12@gmail.com

Don't forget the car wash & breakfast at Woodgreen, come along and enjoy breakfast whilst we wash your car, then leave a donation to go towards materials to complete the building project.

Car Wash

 Saturday August 31st 9.30am - 11.00am

It's that time again

After a very successful trip in May and a visit by a team from North Wales last week, it's time to think about the September trip.

If you are able to go this September from Sat 21st to Sat 29th, or even just thinking about it, please speak to Paul or John at Woodgreen or email odessaproject12@gmail.com as soon as possible as we are considering booking flights soon.

Don't delay, get your name on the list now.

John

Update Saturday 25th PM

Dear Pastor P and Blogski friends...
Firstly and most importantly Clive, Malcolm and Emlyn have landed safely and no bags have been lost.
Secondly ... (what follows is a barrage of digs at pastor P)
Charles and Rob went to Transition house, whilst there we completed the concrete in the final shower room and...

• Removed the excess tile adhesive from the tiling already completed (dig).
• Rob had a little trip on the uneven tiling (please see picture) Insurance claim form is in the post. :) (dig)
  
• *blogger responds "that's because you were jumping on them before they were dry!"(dig)
• John had a lovely day chilling out. (dig)
• Whilst waiting at Odessa airport (arrival - 1 hour late) Alex and Peter treated Charles, John and Rob to a lovely cup of coffee with a cool looking leaf on the top.
  

Regards "The Team."

ps. John is happy the real workers have arrived.

Odessa - Week 1 Numerical Summary

• 1 suspended ceiling put in (the last one)
• 4 Water waste pipes connected and boxed in floor to ceiling
• 4 shower rooms waterproofed and filled in with 3 layers of proofing rubber/ silicon base, briquette mix , concrete scree 
• 221 large  floor tiles buttered leveled and stuck to 1 very large kitchen floor.
  • 50 bags of cement and sand carried up 3 floors, mixed in 4 buckets with 1 very large drill  and 1 mixer.
  • 1 very large mixer carried up 3 flights of fire escape (leaning over bannister - busting 1 back (rob) and scraping 1 arm (Paul)
  • 1 partition wall erected.
  • About 70 meters of floor hidden water pipes concreted in.
  • About 50 meters of wall cables hidden and filled.
  • 1 broom which worked overtime.
  • 1 wobbly ladder that got fixed several times.
  • Several drills which got recharged twice a day.
  • 3 wobbly wooden horses upon which went 8 wobbly planks to make 1 almost firm  platform scaffold.
  • About 735 biscuits consumed.
  • Approx 76 bottles Of fizz (Coke, Pepsi sprite fanta) consumed
  • Approx 441 mugs of chai / coffee
  • 4 chapters of Philippians pondered
  • 1 Wedding attended.
  • 5 bouquets of flowers presented 
  • 1 large family to return to see sometime
  • Several thousand screws dropped then screwed.
  • Over 400 meters of large metal work constructed (plus smaller metal work )
  • X=how many hours we slept (where x = not enough).
  • Numerous attempts at Andy trying to communicate in Russian (some successful.)
  • 15 novels worth of translation by Sasha
  • 1 major injury (Sasha the builder with 8 major stitches and 3 trips to doctor)
  • 12 happy Ukrainians who came bowling with us.
  • 1 large transition house looking more and more like a home.
  • 5 dusty dormitories.
  • 1 brilliant bunch of lads.
  • 1 very early start to enable journey home.
  • 6 sleeps each on journey home.
  • 1 team being prayed for as they fly past us and join the 3 superheroes sticking at it for another week.
  • 1 very kind gracious and wonderfully generous God.
  • 2 more trips planned for Gwersyllt and Woodgreen to get ready for.