Now a chance for Rose to say a little bit about herself...Hi I'm Rose and I live in Falmouth; I have just completed my GCSE's and am about to enter my first year at Truro College. I feel very lucky to be included in the group of Pilgrims that are going to Umzimvubu and I hope that the trip will provide me with a valuable life experience, it will also be my first long haul flight! I am looking forward to the opportunity to learn about another culture that will enable me to grow both, as a person and in my faith; the experience of being in a land that remains poor economically but so rich spiritually will, I am sure give me a great insight and inspiration in many ways.
My parish church is St Budock at Budock Water near Falmouth, as a parish have we supported Umzimvubu for many years and have been lucky enough to host special visitors from Umzimvubu, who inspired me greatly with their great charisma providing wonderful worship and preaching.
I am, personally very interested in music and look forward to observing the African worship and perhaps to bring back some exciting and inspiring ideas! I am involved in worship music at Budock and love to sing, I help occasionally with the Junior Church and run the Fair Trade sales and promotion. I also love to organise events and outreach activities and am currently partaking in a part time 'Music Events Management' course at Tremough. Other hobbies I enjoy are swimming, sewing, art, drama and am a a member of local theatre companies, I am a member of the Cornwall Youth Choir which rehearses and performs at the Cathedral, I love being with people and meeting new friends, I am also a member of Youth Synod.
I look forward to being able to return to Cornwall after the Pilgrimage and share with my church and community my experiences, and hopefully lots of photographs. My church family have been an amazing support to me during the fundraising activities and I have been overwhelmed at the great kindness and enthusiasm shown to me for our Pilgrimage. I wanted to be able to do a special activity myself to raise funds not only for my trip but for our church campaign for the respite centre, I have produced a compilation music CD called 'And so it Goes' featuring young Cornish musicians, and have sourced some incredible talent ranging from the Truro Cathedral Choral Scholars and Cornwall Youth Choir to 'The Hitchcock Rules' with an impressive acoustic rock song called 'Cancun'. The choirs and artists have all generously donated the tracks, this has been greatly appreciated. And the sales have been very successful and copies going worldwide!
Also a very kind member of our congregation has organised a special concert with her friends from the community for my Umzimvubu funds this is to be held on October 22nd at 7.30pm in St Budock Church, please do come if you can it promises to be very good, with some very talented and experienced musicians.
... and she even managed to plug her latest fundraising event!
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