CHOIR UPDATE CHOIR 56 On the 1st of April, 21 fresh faced Watoto Children and 10 Ugandan Choir adults arrived in Brisbane to begin their six month tour sharing their story with Australia and New Zealand. The brand new tour entitled Beautiful Africa: A New Generation kicked off at Easterfest, the largest Christian Music Festival in the Southern Hemisphere, with thousands witnessing this inspiring performance over the 3 day festival. The choir then travelled out to rural Queensland, to some places we have never been before, sharing their message of hope and love to towns that were devastated by recent floods. Not only do we aim through the tour, to raise awareness of the plight of orphans and widows but we at Watoto believe the message shared by the choir truly transforms lives and it’s so exciting to see and hear of God reaching out to people attending each performance. In Townsville we had 40 people respond to the call to follow or rededicate their life to Christ. We are in awe of how powerfully God uses these children and adults
Choir 56 in Sydney
to spread his Gospel to our nation that is crying out for him. The team then spent a month in New Zealand working with our partners TEAR Fund to share this exciting new production with the North Island. We are always so blessed by our lovely New Zealand neighbours during this time and this year was nothing short of amazing. We were able to raise much needed funds and awareness towards the work of Watoto & we are thrilled to say that we raised over 250 new TEAR Fund sponsorships.
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This year we have focused on visiting new places and towns to help spread this message further in Australia. This goal has been met with having over 50% of the tour booked in new venues and towns. We have had a tremendous response to the performance so far, some saying it is the best choir tour they have ever seen and we are excited with anticipation to see what God will do during the next half of tour.