radicallychanged

Friday, October 28, 2005

watoto children's choir

Today, during school, the Watoto children's choir came to school to perform for us.
It was truly a wonderful performance that i will always remember.
The watoto children's choir is from Uganda, and they are here to raise funds for the Watoto child care program, that takes in south african orphans and places them in "villages" under the care of a foster mother, in small little cottages. It costs $40 to sponser a child for a month.
To see the children singing with so much enthusiasm and heartfelt sincerity, and to see their GRINS on their faces, shining white against black... it was such a beautiful awe-inspiring time, that me being the girl that i am, had tears welling up in my eyes.
These kids, who had gone through so much pain and trouble and poverty, who had more right than any of us, with our families, schools and wealth, to turn away from God and hate him, had instead found a source of Joy and Love that was so deep and powerful that it blazed upon their faces like an imprint.