Mission House

17th of December, saturday morning and 5 people are leaving the Mission House with a mission. It is not a short journey, taking two trams and a short walk to get to the right place. It is not an easy journey with the wind and rain making us feel extreemly cold. It even got to a point that some of us (read me) felt like crying and giving up. Not possible, because we had an important task to do. Something, better said someone, was still missing in the house and we had to go and get it.

Finally we saw big letters writing ECO and we knew we were at the right place. Outside several little trees were stalled and then all of a sudden we saw him… Immediately we felt that he was what we were missing in our house. There was this strainge connection between us and the tree and we knew we had to take him home. We made friends with the man from the shop and after promissing to take good care of the tree we could sign the adoption papers. Lennard and myself were declared the official parrents. The naming of our new inhabitant of the Mission House happend while we carried the tree to the tramstation. At first we thought it was a girl and we came up with names like Audry and Evelyn. But then Lennard made a good point by noticing that there are already enough girls in the house and we really need a new man in the house. So we called him Phil. It was a big challenge to bring Phil home. We had to face angry tram passengers and drivers, lot’s of laughing people and hurting arms and fingers. But together we did it!!!!

Phil brought the true christmas sphere in the Mission House. These dark days before christmas some extra light is more then welcome. Everybody will stay in Amsterdam over christmas and new years. It is gona be a special christmas not spending it at home with our families, but here with eachother and the people we work with. Although it is all very exciting, especially these days we miss home a bit more then normally. That is why it is so good to see everyday our mail box filled with cards, letters and somtimes even a parcel. It is great to see how people from our homes are thinking of us. A big THANKS to everybody for that!!!!! We wish you all a very good Christmas!!!

                                                Getting Phil home….

                                                                     After a short word of welcome by Mr Peters its time to open the back and free Phil

                                                                        Making Phil beautiful

About Willemijn Heikoop

I love coffee, cooking and eating good food, collecting crazy and ugly objects (especially postcards). I still believe Sinterklaas is real, for the simple reason that it makes life more beautiful
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