The #FeetontheGround Project in Papua New Guinea sponsors the Queen of Paradise Orchestra, providing free classical music education to underprivileged children and youth in Papua New Guinea, fostering discipline, teamwork, harmony, and community development.
Most of these children live in simple homes made of sticks and bamboo, with thatched roofs. They have no furniture, no bed, and no bathroom. The river is their shower and their laundry; they cook over firewood, and there is no electricity. Those who can afford one have a flashlight. For the concert, we bought shoes and clothes for the children who had none.
And yet they can read sheet music, perform works by the great composers, and fill their souls with the beauty of music. This Christmas, wind instruments—trumpets, oboes, flutes, tubas, and others—will join them, allowing us to form a symphony orchestra!
The potential of the human soul, unique and unrepeatable in every person, made in the image and likeness of its Creator, is astonishing. Discovering it is deeply moving and fills us with hope in the face of every challenge.
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