{"id":4359,"date":"2014-03-05T08:37:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2014-03-05T08:37:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:37:34","slug":"rwanda-boys-from-garbage-dump-start-gospel-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"RWANDA: Boys from Garbage Dump Start Gospel Music Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.godreports.com\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Godreports<\/a>, February 19, 2014<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Garbage and filth surrounded their makeshift shanty in a small-scale dump in Kigali, Rwanda. Five years ago, three street boys, David, Pacifique, and D&#8217;Amour, lived in this squalor, their minds obsessed with survival and numbing their pain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They had no hope before they came to us,&#8221; says Hilliary Anderson, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/hopeforlifeministry.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hope for Life Ministry<\/a> (HFLM), based in Kigali. HFLM&#8217;s aim is to transform the lives of vulnerable street kids by providing housing, Christian counseling and discipleship, and resources to break the chains of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the three boys formed a gospel band called Shining Hope and produced their first song, &#8220;You Are Precious,&#8221; singing about their transformed lives since they began to follow Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we recorded this song they were so excited,&#8221; Anderson notes. &#8220;They never believed anything like this could happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.godreports.com\/2014\/02\/garbage-dump-boys-start-gospel-music-group-get-radio-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Read full story<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ts8jMpqTAUk\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">watch music video<\/a>. Don&#8217;t miss the lyrics in English at the end: BEAUTIFUL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Godreports, February 19, 2014 Garbage and filth surrounded their makeshift shanty in a small-scale dump in Kigali, Rwanda. Five years ago, three street boys, David, Pacifique, and D&#8217;Amour, lived in this squalor, their minds obsessed with survival and numbing their pain. &#8220;They had no hope before they came to us,&#8221; says Hilliary Anderson, founder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RWANDA: Boys from Garbage Dump Start Gospel Music Group<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}