Tiri drumming for joy

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Originally uploaded by mark_d_taylor.

Here's a picture I snapped at the Million Leader Manadate sessions in Harare during the first week of July 2005. Tiri is such a joy to watch during worship music because you can just see he 'drums for the Lord'. Now the thing about Tiri is that he was orphaned a long time ago and has pretty much grown up in Northside Community Church, where I pastored for four years. Current pastor Gary Cross says this about Tiri:

"Tiri worked the youth office for a year looking after the youth group for junior school children. He is very talented and full of life but needs some stability and a sound Scriptural framework on which to hang all his ideas ... so I enrolled him in the Research Tutorial Degree Programme at the Harare Theological College. One of the college's requirements is that full-time students remain closely linked with a local church and be involved in a ministry. Tiri continues to lead and run WOW Kids Club for kids between grades 4 to 7, ages 9 to 12. WOW kids is about 40 kids with a strong leadership team of 4 or 5 young adults under Tiri. Tiri meets me once a month and has an advisor at HTC whom he meets every week"

He has no means of earning the kind of money it takes to pay his fees - a large amount in Zimbabwe, not that much anywhere else) and we are trying to do something to help him. If anyone else reading feels the same, give me a buzz.