The Vietnamese Christian Community in Pooraka, Adelaide has raised over $26,000 to support pilgrims from Vietnam to visit Adelaide and pilgrimage onto Sydney for WYD08.Unite Adelaide members were invited to join celebrations on Monday July 7 at the community centre due to their support and for initiating the project.
This is when we met the Vietnamese pilgrims for the first time. Sr Marie (in photo with Sally and Paul) is the pilgrim group leader. She has worked very closely to Binh and the youth leaders from the Vietnamese Christian Community here in Adelaide for the past 9 months to arrange their pilgrimage.
We were thanked by the beautiful performances by the sisters and pilgrims.
The following Wednesday was more informal. This provided up with a wonderful chance to get to know the pilgrims a bit more. We were struck by their joy and purity. They also know how to have a lot of fun!
I can just imagine what the bus ride to Sydney will be like. I hope the pilgrims have a most blessed time in Sydney and take with them the spirit of World Youth Day to their homeland.
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