Drumming for Unity and Healing

You are invited to join Presbyterian Church in Orland Park along with Peace Memorial UCC Church, November 22 @ 7:00pm, for a beautiful, fun evening with South Africa’s Volmoed Youth Drummers. 

Michael Spath, Director of the Indiana Center for Middle East Peace arranged their US tour: “Drumming for Unity and Healing”  These young people make their own drums, perform in schools, hospitals, community organizations, etc. In the rebuilding of post-apartheid South Africa, from their country’s most impoverished of townships, these young people are empowered, deal with issues of ongoing racism, youth unemployment, and create community.  

The leaders of the VYDrummers are South African Anglican priests Rev. Edwin Arrison and Rev. Rene August, who were close friends of, partners and veteran anti-apartheid activists with the late Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (lovingly known as “Arch”). They give lectures around the world on the Arch’s philosophy of “ubuntu,” “I am because we are,” a sense of mutuality, reconciliation with justice, unity, and community.

 A donation basket will be available at the event.