Leaving a Legacy

My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul.
Psalm 108:1

    William Congreve said, "Music alone with sudden charms can bind the wand'ring sense, and calm the trouble mind." Walter Turnbull's founder of the Boy's choir of Harlem, would add that music can also change the life of a child.
    The success of Turnbull's work is well documented An astounding ninety-eight percent of his of his choir member finish high school and go on to college. More important, they benefit from Turnbull's teachings. A healthy dose of old-fashioned values is mixed in with the music he teaches the kind of values Turnbull's learned as a child in rural Mississippi.
     He believes America's sense of community is slipping away, and he hopes to impressed upon his choir members the Importance of nuturing one another to excel. For twenty-six years, Turnbull's has demonstrated this principle to his student by taking them around the world to Europe, Japan, Canada, and the Caribbean. With a current roster of 450 boys and girls, eight to eighteen years old, that's no small feat. But numbers and age do not matter to Turnbull.Character does. His satisfaction comes from knowing g that his choir members are learning to be better people.
     Most of us would love to leave the kind of legacy Walter Turnbull is leaving to the world. What we need to recognize is that Turnbull didn't create his 450 member choir in a day. He stated where he was with a small group of neighborhood kids in a church basement. He didn't"t have money for choir robes or music. But be did have a desire to Introduce those children to the joy of music.
     Do what you can, where you are, with the people God has placed in your oath right now. Today, Regardless of how you help others, you will put a song in their hearts.