Order of Service Notes for A Ray of Hope

St. Paul's London

Order of Service Notes for A Ray of Hope

 

A Ray of Hope, the choir from six schools of different denominations and for the disabled in Northern Ireland was formed in 1996. In that year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) named the choir Youth Ambassadors for the Culture of Peace. After the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the expanding Ray of Hope network concentrated on building links with schools and organisations in developing countries. 

Educational and medical goods in excess of £4 million have been sent worldwide including to Belarus, Brazil, Nepal and Malawi. The network of 200,000 comprising carers and those being cared for includes many who sang together in 1996. For the UN’s 60th anniversary service at St Paul’s Cathedral, Largymore Primary School, Forthill College, Assumption Grammar School, Dromore High School, Grosvenor Grammar School and Fleming Fulton School, the original members of A Ray of Hope, will sing together for the first time in seven years