Christmas day dinner Dunedin generosity (1)

I thought I might keep my readers up to date with the generosity of Dunedin people leading up to our Christmas Day dinner.

• We have had heaps of people booking in to be volunteers on the day.
• We have Little India restaurant lined up to cook the vegetables and Marlow Pies will cook our twenty plus legs of mutton. The owners of both places have helped in the past. They are both going away this year, but have insisted that they will organise for someone on their staff to look after it all for us.
• We have applied for and received $2800 in grants from two places, the Trust giving $2000 does not want any recognition... "Your Church deserves any recognition due".
• The Dominican Sisters gave us a donation of $500 and other donations of $200 and $100 from individuals have been received.

Today three things have happened which prompted this post.

• A breakfast time phone call offered a ham for the dinner.
• A lunch time phone call offered a ten seater bus to pick up guests and deliver them home with the driver willing to host the passengers at the meal.
• A man in overalls walked into Space2B, did not introduce himself but asked, "Are you the minister of this show?" "Yes"... He dug in his pockets and pulled out a bank cheque for $110 "Here, for your Christmas meal - you do well. Bye!" and walked out the door. (I recognised him from other years)

I'll keep you posted on other developments... I am always humbled by people's generosity.