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~ Alex builds the Jericho Breakers blog ~ My good friend Alex is the music director for Kampala Lutheran Church. Every Sunday he's there playing the keyboard, guitar, or drums. He leads us in song with his sure voice. He spends hours during the week laying track upon track in the Lutheran Media Ministry Uganda (LMMU) recording studio until he has a masterpiece recorded and ready for Sunday worship. He has a heart for the youth and has spent many Saturdays building some of the youth of Kampala into a choir and encouraging them to become active with the congregation. Alex is a great friend and has been to our home often.
All of that is in his free time. Alex's job is to work at the LMMU. Part of the work Alex does in support of the LMMU is to write music for (and choreograph) a Christian dance troupe called Jericho Breakers. Yup, that's right "breakers" as in break-dancing. I've asked Alex if he can actually do what he's choreographed for the dance troupe and he just laughs. I'm convinced he's a closet break-dancer. Anyway, Jericho Breakers is often utilized in outreaches and other events that the LMMU does across Uganda. But they're also just a group of young Christian men and women eager to find their way in a difficult world. So Alex came over today to ask me about making a blog for these guys - a way for them to connect with the rest of the world and a place for them to share how they're wearing the Gospel on their sleeves and loving it.
Over the course of about 3 hours I sat beside Alex as he put Jericho Breakers online. Check it out - he did a great job. -Shauen