Toffee Apples and Send A Cow

On Thursday, I will be taking part in a meeting of Churches Together in Ely (CTiE). My part there is to help with planning our involvement in the Ely Apple Fair (Saturday, 20th October 2007). We have the idea of selling apple-related produce to raise money to support struggling farmers in two-thirds world countries. Send A Cow (SAC) is a charity that exports fruit trees to Ethiopia to encourage agriculture there. We are preparing a stall with information on SAC.

I am particularly (perhaps zanily) enthusiastic about the idea of making a hundred toffee apples in various flavours of toffee to sell, neatly wrapped in cellophane. They've got to be from locally-grown, organic apples. Yesterday, I recruited a Christian brother to help me with this work. I want to reassure him - don't despite the day of small things, this will be worth it - and lots of fun as well.

I reckon that, when the people of Ely see the churches taking positive action about an issue they (Elyans in general) can understand - like helping overseas farmers - they will take more interest in our message than if we do things that mean nothing to them.