The Themba Girls with the Erin Bode Group

http://www.thembagirls.org “Amazing” and “life-changing” is how vocalist Erin Bode describes a week in South Africa recording with a girls school choir to launch a project of help and hope for young people with heartbreaking challenges. “When you see these girls and meet them, you want to do something for them,” said Bode, who spent Thanksgiving week at the residential high school in Dirkiesdorp as part of a project coordinated by LCMS World Relief and Human Care. The international mercy ministry plans to release a CD this spring featuring Bode and the young South Africans. Proceeds from the recording will benefit the Themba Trust, the nonprofit foundation that operates the girls school and other educational and youth development programs that serve South Africa’s rural poor.