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Hope to the World
Last month, the Archbishop Colin Johnson was at St. Thomas’ Anglican Church to bless the “Hope to the World” tapestry commissioned from the Keiskamma Art Project in Hamburg, South Africa. Immediately following the service, St. Thomas’ AIDS Response Team (S.T.A.R.T.) hosted a lunch and penny rolling event with all proceeds for the Keiskamma Trust, an organization that “promotes health and hope through art, music, HIV/AIDS treatment, poverty alleviation projects and education initiatives” in the village of Hamburg and its surroundings in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. “Hope to the World” tapestry was designed by Nozeti Makubalo, a single mother of six girls who says, “I am sending messages through the world by changing words into pictures.” The members of S.T.A.R.T. credit Canadian nurse Rachel Johnson who introduced St. Thomas’ to the work of the Keiskamma Trust and to the many parishioners who made the purchase of the tapestry possible. For more information about the Keiskamma Trust, visit www.keiskamma.org
