When Edwin and Nancy Cahill make their 10th trip to Kitale, Kenya to visit Mercy Home in September 2011, they will be getting help from a musical ensemble who will play a concert to benefit the children of Mercy Home.
The afternoon concert will be at Calvary Baptist Church in Gibsons, on May 7 at 3 p.m. Refreshments will be served and admission will be by donation. All proceeds will go directly to Mercy and Caring Children's Homes.
The musical ensemble includes a long-time resident and musician, Weldon Epp, who has a Masters of Music from the University of Oregon. He will play from Book one and Book two of the Well Tempered Keyboard by J. S. Bach.
Paul Pedlar, who plays the cornet and has played extensively with The Little Mountain Brass Band, the Sunshine Coast Community Orchestra and the Sunshine Coast Concert Band, will be playing in a trio with Epp and Graham Argyle.
Argyle is a professional architect who will be accompanying Pedlar on the piano.
Rounding out the afternoon will be Dr. Teh Hoon Heng, a soloist who studied voice in England.
The Cahills will also do a short presentation on the work in Kenya.
The Cahills founded the work in 2000 when they saw such poverty and despair in the slums of Kitale. There are now 107 destitute young people being helped by Canadian sponsors, many of them Sunshine Coast residents who have decided to make a difference in the lives of these precious children.
In 2006 when they became a Canadian registered charity, they were able to buy four hectares of land where the children and some staff live and go to school and grow ground crops for food.
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