13.06.2014
Soul Waves Radio Features Bikers on a Mission Interview
Among this week’s offerings by Soul Waves Radio is an interview with the Revd Andrew McCroskery, Rector of St Bartholomew’s and Christ Church, Leeson Park, about the forthcoming Biker’s on a Mission road trip to raise funds and highlight the work of the United Society.
Last March Soul Waves reported on Linda Chambers’ plan to go barefoot during Holy Week. Linda is Director of the United Society in Ireland and she wanted to draw attention to the plight of people in Swaziland, a tiny African kingdom surrounded by South Africa and Mozambique.
The United Society is an Anglican organisation that began life 300 years ago to propagate the Gospel in foreign parts. Nowadays it partners people and communities around the world through their local churches. The Irish wing of the United Society, now known as Us, fundraises for Swaziland projects. Linda’s week in her bare feet raised €8,000. But in one of the poorest countries in the world with 26% of all adults HIV–positive, the need for outside aid is immense.
Two Church of Ireland rectors who are also motor cycle enthusiasts responded and offered to raise funds for Us. The reverends Andrew McCroskery and Nigel Kirkpatrick are using part of their annual vacation time to visit all thirty Church of Ireland cathedrals in Ireland over a ten–day period starting on the August bank holiday. They will do a complete circuit of Ireland visiting between two and four cathedrals per day. At each stop they will either join in a service or lead a short prayer service. They hope local bikers will come with them for part of the run and that people will offer donations to support the United Society’s efforts in Swaziland.
Soul Waves Radio supplies over 30 local and community radio stations throughout Ireland with news, reaction stories and features. Each week, three interviews, edited and ready for transmission, are broadcast and posted to our website, reaching an estimated audience of 300,000. Topics are of a religious and social nature and can fit into a number of categories including: Church Year, Calendar Year, Faith/Spirituality, Current Topics, Social Issues, Third World Issues, Human Interest Stories.
You can listen to the interview with the Revd Andrew McCroskery online at http://www.soulwavesradio.ie/