September 13, 2007

Cambodian Children’s Choir sings this weekend

Performance connects Cambodia’s history and future through music

The Cambodian Christian Children’s Choir will hold two performances this Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Children’s Discovery Museum, 180 Woz Way in downtown San Jose.

The Cambodian Children’s Choir

The children will perform lively and colorful traditional and contemporary music and dance. The choir, which incorporates 20 youth from five different orphanages, is touring the United States to educate people about Cambodian culture, bring awareness to the needs in Cambodia and share their new hope for the future.

The choir has been performing in various locations on the East Coast since mid August, and will perform in several venues throughout the Bay Area until Sept. 20 when they depart for Los Angeles.

South East Asia Prayer Center (SEAPC), responsible for the tour, is reaching out to children throughout Cambodia in a variety of ways, including building schools through the Cambodia Christian School Network and partnering with New Hope for Orphans (NHO), which provides for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of orphans.

SEAPC, based in Oakmont, the South East Asia Prayer Center is a faith-based, 501c3 non-profit organization that acts based upon the belief that lives can be changed through prayer. Established in 1991 by Mark Geppert, SEAPC is committed to creating new and networking existing prayer cells in South East Asia , channeling resources into humanitarian projects and raising up prayer teams that will penetrate unreached people groups in the nations. SEAPC recently partnered with the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Chinese Restaurant Association in a fund-raising effort to provide treatment for children with congenital heart defects in Tibet. For more information, visit www.seapc.us.  

About NHO: New Hope for Orphans is a faith-based, nonprofit organization registered with the Ministry of Interior & Social Welfare in Cambodia. It serves to rebuild a new, young generation in Cambodia by providing food, shelter and a nurturing environment to homeless and destitute children who are without family. For more information, visit www.seapc.us or www.nho.org.kh.

The children will perform twice on Saturday, at 1 and at 2:30 p.m. Admission is free to museum members and infants. Charges for adults and children are $8 each and seniors are $7.