An Evening with Rev. Dr. Peter Storey

9644 Whitestown Road,Zionsville IN 46077

28 April, 2022

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Zanmi Fondwa presents an evening with Rev. Dr. Peter Storey., former president of the Methodist Church of South Africa, Zanmi Fondwa presents an evening with Rev. Dr. Storey on April 28 at Zionsville United Methodist Church at 7:00 pm. Dr. Storey's memoir, Protest at Midnight outlines his work in the 1980's as he became a national leader in the South Africa church struggle against apartheid and co-led an ecumenical delegation to the United Nations, the U.S. Congress and Europe, urging intensified pressure on the apartheid regime in 1984. As a youthful chaplain to Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, he defied armed police entering his pulpit, headed the SA Council of Churches with Bishop Desmond Tutu, led 25,000 marchers against Johannesburg’s secret police headquarters, and confronted Winnie Mandela’s wrongs. Storey’s ministry was shaped by one simple question: “What does it mean to obey Jesus in apartheid South Africa?” Committed to non-violence and reconciliation, he co-chaired the regional Peace Accord structures intervening in political violence before South Africa’s first democratic elections and was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to help select the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.