Bikers on a Mission

Posted on 12. Jun, 2014, in UncategorizedComments Off on Bikers on a Mission

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Last March we 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 U-s, 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 U-s. 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.

One of the bikers on a mission is the Reverend Andrew McCroskery who is rector of St. Bartholomew’s Church on Clyde Road in Dublin.  He started riding 50cc mopeds in his youth but has now graduated to a Harley Davidson. It won’t be the first time he has toured Ireland but now he’s doing it as a mission.

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