The 2012 Diocesan Lent Appeal is the last of the five Lent Appeals dedicated to ALMA in the London Challenge 2012 initiative. It will focus on equipping our partner churches in Angola and Mozambique by investing in their transport. Our aim is to raise £60,000 to help fund a good quality second hand vehicle for Angola, Lebombo (Southern Mozambique) and Niassa (northern Mozambique).

If we talk with our partners the biggest impediment to ministry and growth is transport! Their dioceses are huge: Angola is five times the size of the entire UK and each Mozambican Diocese is 1.5 times the size of the UK. Public transport infrastructure is minimal and, although the bicycle is king in local contexts, for effective ministry to happen our partners need vehicles – sturdy and reliable ones that can cope with the dirt roads in the most remote places, and not just in the dry season. Each diocese has two or three vehicles but at the end of their useful lives, so our final Lent Appeal of London Challenge 2012 will be Giving Ministry Wheels.