All this week and especially this Friday people all over Britian are celebrating Red Nose Day by raising money for a charity organization called Comic Relief. Comic Relief was founded in the United Kingdom in 1985 in response to famine in Ethiopia. It now raises money for Africa and disadvantaged people in the UK. Red Nose Day is held in the spring every other year and is the main way in which Comic Relief raises money. It is often treated as a semi-holiday and culminates in a live television event on BBC1 starting in the evening and going through into the early hours of the morning. However, many other money-raising events take place. As the name suggests, the day involves the wearing of plastic/foam red noses which are available to purchase in ma
ny shops.As you know, this week we have a mission team over from the States. After we started planning events (including the Ceilidh on Friday) we realized that March 16th is Red Nose Day. We're always looking for ways to serve our community show them that we aren't Christians who say one thing and do another, but we really are concerned about the needs of our community and our world. T
he fact that our Ceilidh falls exactly on Red Nose Day presents us with an awesome opportunity to do just that by using it to raise money for the Comic Relief charity. All our events this week serve two purposes:1. To create moments where we can interact with university students in Aberdeen, giving us the opportunity to build rel
ationships with them and introduce them to God.
ationships with them and introduce them to God.2. To raise mu-lah for the Comic Relief charity. Wahoooo!!!
It's been a load of fun so far. We spent a couple hours this morning on the Aberdeen University campus passing out invites to our event at Starbucks tonight. And yes, we did wear our foam red noses the whole time. We are so cool. So exceptionally cool, in fact, that a guy from the university newspaper asked us to pose for a picture. "Ah, that's brilliant!" he said. I just knew my big break was coming soon!
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So inconspicuous.
3 comments:
Anna,
You look so good in RED! These pictures brought back memories of another nose, worn so long ago, that fell off at a very inopportune time.
I love the imaginative ways Radiate impacts the community with their events. Keep up the great work!
you're the cutest clown i've seen by far.
and i've seen a lot of clowns in my day.
they frighten me.
i don't want to talk about it.
That looks like so much fun.
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