from Viju Mangalore - for Daijiworld News Network
Mangalore: Mar 16: ‘Stand up and Give Him Praise 2006’, a Gospel music concert featuring leading musicians and singers from Mangalore, Bangalore and Mumbai will be held on March 18, 2006 St Agnes Special School grounds.
Organized by ‘White Doves’, an organization of like-minded individuals who have come together to serve humanity through loving, caring and sharing, the event will be a two and a half hours praise and worship concert.
Pooling in their musical talent 35 singers and 9 musicians will perform in the event. The musicians include Theo Alvares on the trumpet, Oscar Weltha on the saxophone, Robert D'Souza and Nelson Pereira on the lead guitars, Jerome Coelho on the bass, Melwin Fernandes on the drums, Robin and Dan on the keyboards, and Bob on the Tumba will be the attraction of the event.
The concert will be held between 6 pm to 8.30 pm and admittance is free.
About White Doves
The group was founded by Corrine Rasquinha a decade ago when she experienced the love of God and wanted to share the same with others. Determined to make a difference, the White Doves pooled in their resources and strived hard to provide medical aid and essentials, to sponsor operations and to donate blood. Moved by the bleakness and despair the White Doves commenced a hospital ministry among the poor and the destitute. Today their philanthropic striving has taken the form of a charitable trust, whose acts of compassion are rendered irrespective of caste, creed, or religion.
If it is their hands that are used in tender service, then it is their voices that proclaim the glory of God for worthy purposes. The melodious music of the "White Doves Choir" adds to the joy of weddings and the solemnity of funerals. The fees collected finances the various philanrhropic activities.
Every Christmas season the White Doves put up Mobile Street Shows with meaningfully depicted Nativity Scenes, ringing in the Yuletide message of peace and love. These shows draw crowds in Thousands.
Four years ago the White Doves started a Home for the Destitute at Managudda. It presently houses fifty destitutes from little babies to old people. Most of the inmates are picked up from the roads, then bathed, clothed, fed, and provided with medical attention. The children, numbering 14, go to school, and the old help out in the Home and also help care for the bedridden.
The White Doves collect the excess vegetables from the marketplace, sort them out, and distribute them to various ashrams and poor families. In addition, every day food cooked at the White Doves Home is packed and taken to the streets to feed the hungry.
The White Doves have built seven houses for poor families and are presently building another at Saripalla for a couple shunned by family and society as they are HIV positive.
Purposeful Philanthropy: Provision of rations and essentials to the poor, provision of books, bags, and stationery to needy children, assistance with marriage expenses of poor girls, building homes for the economically backward and homeless etc.
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