Students are not lacking in imagination. Take a recent CU house party. What would you do with the leftover food from your church weekend away? Distribute it throughout the church? Donate it to a local hostel? Freeze it for the next weekend away? Not these students. Following the example of Aberdeen CU, Durham decided to auction off everything that was unused, with proceeds going to their forthcoming 'life' mission.
Ranging from bread to pasta, a signed copy of The Blurb (signed by the CU's vendor) to A Call to Spiritual Reformation by Don Carson, the items were put up for auction. With the treasurer looking on eagerly, the bidding got underway.
The two auctioneers, Mike and Jonathan, cautiously started with 100 teabags for ?2 - they were sold a few bids later for ?20. Next up was a birthday card from ... Billy Graham! Not the American evangelist, but a first-year student with the same name. Lot 2 was sold to Jean Ross for ?35. It would have been good to have seen her mum's face when she opened it on her birthday just after the house party! Stockton CU, who joined Durham CU for the weekend, were not to be outdone - Exec member Rob even outbid himself to buy a box of crisps for a tenner.
