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Posted Sat March 20 at 1:43 am

Naomi at St. Patricks Parade Greenville Avenue Dallas and with Ugandan musician Maurice Kirya. Maurice is also staying at the Kirkpatricks.

Here is information from Michael Kirkpatrick on Maurice. Maurice Kirya recently released his debut album "Misubbaawa" for international audiences. His music is an uncommon blend of soul, Afro, and R&B that is influenced by the beauty and unique spirit of his homeland, Uganda. He was the 2007 Best R&B Artist winner of the Pearl of Africa Music Awards in Uganda and nominated at the Kisima Awards in Kenya.

Maurice also runs a monthly show in Kampala, Uganda titled "The Maurice Kirya Experience" which showcases live acts from East Africa and other parts of the world. The show has been credited for boosting the live music scene in Uganda. The show exposes established and non established live musicians and poets on a professional stage.

Maurice will make his first American concert performance at the prestigious South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, TX.

His musical mission is "to move hearts, encourage hearts, strengthen hearts, and heal hearts.”

Maurice Kirya
http://mauricekirya.com/

"Musubbaawa" | Maurice Kirya | CD Baby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/MauriceKirya

"Musubbaawa" | Maurice Kirya | Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6px82OdL6A

"Boda Boda" | Maurice Kirya | Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cus0ObsKCQ4

"If I Ever" | Maurice Kirya | Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUDHx5qZGAM

The Maurice Kirya Experience | Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH5uyayb5nw

The Maurice Kirya Experience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh2SfZh9p1g

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I am first a person whose journey with God and others is the orienting center of my life. I seek to share openly of this halting, faltering discovery of the story of God in everyday living.

I can be contacted personally at earthlytents@comml.imap.cc

After 22 1/2 years as a pastor of a Philadelphia area church, and almost two years in New Zealand at Laidlaw College in Auckland, New Zealand, I am located in Dallas, Texas, as the International Director of ALARM (African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries). ALARM is an organization that seeks to restore communities that have been devastated by tribalism and warfare.

My wife, Naomi, is an amazing person with whom I share my journey. I am blessed with two special children whom I love and admire--Ben, a web designer living in San Francisco Rebekah, our daughter, a singer/actress in Texas.

My passions: reading, popcorn, writing, photography, walking, time with friends and family, thinking about the problem of evil and suffering, peace building and reconciliation, living out the gospel in a postmodern world.

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Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch, winner of Pulitzer Pride, is brilliantly written. It is about America in the King Years 1955-1963. This is the first of three substantial books, the other books covering the years following through King's assassination. The book begins with post-Civil War Georgia and the changes in worship--the formation of distinctly black churches. Branch writes descriptively and pulls the reader into the story. 1060 pages, it is worth the effort and forces one to look racism in the eyes and celebrate God's use of a flawed though gifted leader.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solder
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Ishael Beah

If you've watched the movie "Blood Diamond" you have a small picture of the horrors of child soldiers in Africa. It is estimated that in Africa alone there are 200,000 children that have been pressed into combat, forced to face horrors and to do atrocities that overwhelm the spirit. This book is one of the most important stories in bringing to light the dehumanizing plight of children in war.

The Faces of Forgiveness
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F. Leron Shults and Steven J. Sandage

Forgiveness long has been the domain of theology but in recent years many disciplines are considering dimensions of forgiveness. This particular book is an integration of theology and psychology through the metaphor of faces.

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