African Children's Choir

One of the groups of the African Children's Choir will sing at First United Methodist Church on Monday night. They were here two years ago, when MJ was still home, and four little girls and an adult from Uganda stayed at our home. We are going to host some children again, though MJ will still be away at college.

The African Children’s Choir is made up of some of the neediest and most vulnerable children in their countries. Many have lost one or both parents to poverty or disease. The African Children’s Choir helps these children break away from the everyday cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In Uganda, South Africa, Rwanda, Ghana, Sudan, Nigeria and Kenya, children are chosen to attend music camps. Before being selected to join the Choir, children, generally aged between 7 and 11 attend Music for Life camps. These camps are fun and stimulating environments that provide a break from the daily hardships the young children face at home.

We'll have the children staying with us from Sunday afternoon until Wednesday morning. So now I am getting rooms ready for them to sleep in and buying food to cook. All I can remember is that they really liked sweet potatoes.