For the last five years, the Diocese of Washington has offered an online Advent calendar, and each year we’ve offered visitors the opportunity to mark the season by making a financial contribution to a worthy cause. This year we are asking you to support a ministry that is especially close to our hearts, the Bokamoso Youth program. Each day, in addition to a daily meditation and a link to the Daily Office, the calendar features a videotaped interview with one of the scores of South African young people whose lives have been changed, even saved, by Bokamoso, or with one of their grateful parents.
If you haven’t visited the calendar yet, let Roy Barber, a music and drama teacher at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland introduce you to the calendar and to the program in the first video below. And if you haven’t had a chance to meet the youth of Bokamoso, click on the second video and listen to Mapitso Kinamela tell her story.
Then visit the Bokamoso Web site, learn more about the program, and if it is in your heart, please give.
You can learn about the diocese’s other initiatives in Southern Africa here.