We’re taking you to Burundi, East Africa, for today’s Spirit In Action for a visit with Socrates Imani Matabaro, founder of Voice of Hope Burundi.
Socrates and the Voice of Hope team are doing some hard, hard, work, as you can imagine, working with orphans and widows and handicapped people, but even more challenging has been the local blow-back after they took under their care 6 gay men who had to flee for their lives from Uganda.
The vast preponderance of Socrates’ work is with orphans, widows, and people in prison, and doing the healing and teaching work of the Alternatives to Violence Program.
Please send out your prayers and support of Socrates’ healing, and for the work he and his team are doing. Visit them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092291342317), check out their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuY2uu1W1vIIsszn80t7nDA), and remember to watch the full video of Tuwa Sogeleye, played in part at the end of this interview.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Quaker Mark Helpsmeet, Socrates Imani Matabaro
Each week, Spirit In Action brings you stories of people living lives of fruitful service, of peace, community, compassion, creative action and progressive efforts. We will trace the spiritual roots that support and nourish them in their service. Above all, we will seek out Light, Love and Helping Hands, being shared between our many neighbors on this planet, hoping to inspire and encourage you to sink deep roots and produce sacred fruit in your own life.
Spirit In Action is an hour of interviews with those providing leadership in peace, justice and “good works”, interspersed with relevant music. The theme music is “The Turning of the World” performed by Sara Thomsen (written by Ruth Pellham).