Between a mission and a traffic jam...will you give us a push?

Hello! I am Mariaserena and since August I have been living in the mission of the Pope John XXIII Community in Bucharest: a dynamic and lively mission, with many young people who come to live a more or less long experience of fraternity and sharing. Our days are full of encounters, laughter, hardships and unexpected joys...in a word, full of SHARING!Because this is what, first and foremost, we try to do every day with the people who live in the house with us and with those we meet outside: BE THERE! To be and stay beside, despite the fatigue and, at times, anger, despite the sense of helplessness we often feel in the face of so many situations. To be next to those who knock on the door of our homes or to those we meet in the street in the evening, to be next to children and young people locked in institutions or who spend their days in the street, to be next to the people who, in different ways, every day the Lord makes us meet.In these months in Bucharest I think I was forced to learn to let myself be surprised. I, who tend to always plan everything, find myself having my plans continually changed and learning (with more or less docility) to keep an open door (or even a front door, sometimes) to the unforeseen, to wonder and to trust those who, more or less visibly, are beside me. An openness to the unexpected that does not seat us and calls us to put what really matters at the center.And now I am writing to ask for your help because here in Bucharest we are always on the move and we need an agile means to be able to continue all these activities. As of today, in fact, we only have one minibus, and with the traffic in Bucharest, it is quite challenging to get around the city in a nine-seater vehicle. So we are trying to raise some funds to be able to buy a car, to continue in this dynamic and lively mission.Will you help us out too?Thank you for any help you can give us, even a small donation is invaluable!