Hello, Szia, Jo Napot,
Welcome to our FUCSJ Transylvania Pilgrimage blog. This blog is open to entries from our travelers and hosts. Any visitors to our blog are encouraged to post comments.
While our plane leaves about 4 weeks from now, the journey has already begun. Over a year ago Mark Flynn, Crystal Lanier, Jozsef Szombatfalvi and I began discussion of a possible pilgrimage.
During this last year we have had many fundraising events, a partner church service and informational meetings. Many people from our congregation have contributed their time to help with our fundraising events. We have several donors to our scholarship whose donations of money and airline tickets made it possible of many of our youth and adult travelers to make this journey. $1500 from a special collection will be directly applied towards projects costs for the Homorodszentmarton church. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our trip preparations. Today we have 28 travelers in all; 10 high school, 5 college age and 13 adults.
I must give huge koszonom szepen (thank you very much) to our host minister, Jozsef. For the last 3 weeks, I have been talking with Joszef almost every day. Jozsef has given many hours of his time to make travel and room arrangements for us. This is besides all of the planning for our stay in Homorodszentmarton.
May you all enjoy our trip through our blog.
Sziastok,
Monty
5 comments:
Dear Friends in Transylvania,
Thank you for creating this blog! We love hearing from you and seeing a few of the sights you have to share! May your trip continue to be meaningful and your return be safe!
Gratefully,
Bob Miess
I cannot stand it any longer: Have your clothes
gotten there yet???
Warm thoughts and hugs to you all,
Kelly Burnett
Everyone got their clothes!! Poor Kathleen's didn't arrive until we got to the village, about a week after she left home. At least the airline gave her an allowance and she was able to pick up some new clothes in Budapest! :)
Carol
Hi Travelers:
We enjoy very much your blog and pictures, but my reaction is to FORGET ABOUT US! Emerce yourself in what you are doing there and reflect on it later to us. Forget the sound bites and photo ops, as it were, and how to capture it all. You will have time for that when you return, whereas you will miss a lot if you are always thinking about how to represent it to the folks back home. Do it! You are the important players now.
Bob
Hi Again Travelers:
Having just read Rev. Nancy's lovely e-mails to Kevin I am reminded of the other purpose of your blog: keeping in touch with loved ones.
But for myself I want to again release you to live in the moment and forget about us. In the spirit of the great SGM session on the topic of travel, I urge you to immerse yourself there, the tie-back can come later.
Bob
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