FFWPU Members Sing at Elderly Peoples’ Home at Christmas »
by Simon Cooper
On Sunday, 20th December 2009, fourteen FFWPU members visited the Westmead Old Peoples’ Home at Westbourne Park to spend a few hours serving our senior citizens during the season of goodwill!
Three cars arrived at Westmead just after 2pm. As soon as we settled in, Marshall de Souza introduced our group and the aims of the FFWPU charity to the residents who were seated around the room, after which we began singing Christmas carols.
We had rehearsed eight carols at Lancaster Gate, under the direction of George Ostapko; however, in the spirit of Christmas, we accepted requests from an attentive audience, increasing our repertoire to twelve – one for “each day of Christmas!”
Around 3pm, we organised ourselves in serving tea, coffee and mince pies (the latter – all 100 of them – an offering to the home from FFWPU). Following that, we took time to talk to the residents, even going downstairs to meet those who could not make it to the hall above! Naomi Sato prepared a small gift for each resident; also, we all signed a Christmas card for each of them.
I really feel that this was a lovely thing to do – offering our love and service to our elder brothers and sisters in the community. In fact, one of the residents is a former Korean War veteran, and good contact of David Franklin. The manager mentioned that she would like us to come again, perhaps to have a talk and discussion on a pertinent subject. We left feeling happy and uplifted!
(Report by Marshall de Souza)
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