By: Jennifer Ortiz
Joyful Hands has teamed up with the Gospel Choir and the Heart of Fire Dance Ministry to present a MegaBash Benefit Concert this Friday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium.
Admission is $3, and Joyful Hands will also be selling jewelry handmade by some of the members of the New Life Deaf Ministry in Honduras, the organization to which all proceeds of this event will go towards.
Joyful Hands adviser and staff interpreter for the ASL program, Stephanie Oliver, told GWU-Today that Joyful Hands has wanted to organize a concert with the Gospel Choir and the Heart of Fire Dance Ministry for quite some time.
Joyful Hands decided to put this idea into action when “we heard news about some financial issues that the deaf ministry in Honduras was having,” explained Oliver. “We asked the different clubs to join us for this benefit concert, and we’re very excited. We’ve been working for this concert for a little over a month” said Oliver.
Gardner-Webb University’s ASL program has had close connections with New Life Deaf Ministry in Honduras through the mission trips that they do every two years.
According to their website, New Life Deaf Ministry “provides quality education to Deaf Honduran children/youth in a Christian environment and creates programs that both evangelize and equip these Deaf children/youth and their families.”
Joyful Hands, Gospel Choir, and Heart of Fire Dance Ministry will each perform their own set for the benefit concert, and will also perform a song together. Sarah Lynch, a member of Heart of Fire describes the experience as “an exciting combination of very different clubs on campus creating a performance altogether.”
For more information contact Stephanie Oliver at [email protected].