More than a summer program
When alumni think of Credo, many picture the warm days they spent in Oberlin rehearsing, performing, doing service projects, and singing hymns while enjoying the bonfire in Tappan Square. One of the things I love most about Credo though is that neither its spirit nor its work is limited to Oberlin, or even to the summer months. Even now, as snow swirls outside the Credo office, Credites around the country are living out the Credo mission of developing the gift, acknowledging the source, and responding with service. I’d like to share with you some particularly special ways that this mission has been engaged around the country this winter
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Violins needed for Credo alum starting violin school in Senegal
Credo Alumna Anna Wolle ('12, '15) will move to Senegal (in West Africa) this summer to launch Teranga Strings , a project that will begin with a free summer violin program for forty children in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The children will hail from two existing non-profit organizations: L’Empire des Enfants, which houses sixty formerly indentured servants, and SOS Village d’Enfants, which houses over one hundred orphans.
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Students build, serve and play in hurricane-stricken Texas and Puerto Rico
This January Credo recruited a group of thirteen Oberlin Conservatory students who spent two weeks on campus learning and growing in ways quite familiar: rehearsing chamber music, being coached by members of Oberlin’s faculty, and performing in Kulas Recital Hall. No amount of imagination could have dreamt up the ways these students would continue to learn and grow through unfamiliar means once they took their hard work to Beaumont, Texas and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Credo Partners with Oberlin Conservatory for Hurricane-Relief Mission Trips
This month a group of 14 students from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music will spend two weeks of intensive chamber music study in Oberlin before heading to Beaumont, Texas and Puerto Rico to serve the communities affected by the devastating hurricanes. They will bring not only music but willing and able hands to help with whatever is needed. The project is a joint effort of Credo Music and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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Messiah Sing Along Concerts Raise $4500 for Food Pantry & Homeless Shelter
Each year Credo Music begins the Christmas season with two Messiah Sing Along concerts: one in Oberlin and the other in Chicago. The community comes together not only to enjoy and participate in beautiful music-making, but to generously support a local ministry. This year we raised $2500 for the Harmony Food Pantry, a ministry serving the North Lawndale community in Chicago and $2000 for Family Promise of Lorain Country, a ministry serving homeless families in Lorain Country, Ohio.
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