In the last year or so, our Gospel Bell work with churches has expanded as we’ve ventured further afield and last night’s performance at the URC in Wylde Green, Boldmere, near Birmingham was at the invitation of our old friend the Revd Richard Becher who organised a rather special event to showcase the ministry of PeaceyK Nambi, a Ugandan singer and youth work with Youth with a Mission, Uganda. Donald and I were able to travel over a little earlier but Toni had to battle the Friday afternoon traffic from Banbury area, making it just in time. The URC Wylde Green is a lovely old church, with photos of its past ministers in the foyer dating back to the early 1920s. Today, the church hosts inclusive activities for all the community and that was evident from the array of notices in the entrance to the foyer.

We began the first of two sets at 7.15pm and after our first set, PeaceyK sang her own beautiful songs and shared aspects of her work with youth in Uganda. Her love of singing and for her culture and country truly shines through and later, she sang a song that she had composed for the youth of Burundi and Rwanda. She told us that she’d learnt a local Burundian dialect so that the lyrics would encourage the youth she met there. In the second set, we provided the backing for a reggae song sung by a guest singer and then we backed PeaceyK as she sang a song that she’d composed especially for last night.

It was a fantastic evening! Our thanks to the URC Wylde Green for hosting us, Richard for organising the event, PeaceyK for her wonderful songs and voice and the enthusiastic audience that came to support this fund-raising evening.