|The Church|

        My name is Travis Boudreau, as you may already know,  and I am the founder and director of a growing musical group based out of the Gospel Halls of PEI named “The Church”. Formally we are a ‘choral ensemble’ but in essence we are a group of young Island Christians aiming to reach Island youth with music; though we are not strictly voice, I will refer to this as a ‘choir’ for the purpose of this post. The forming of this choir began in April of this year with collaboration between Brenna Thompson of Grace Christian School and myself, with a single goal: to spread the Gospel to the youth here - close to home - on PEI. 

        ‘The Church' is a collection of musically-inclined Gospel Hall Christian youth (ages 13-25) coming together to:

     1. Sing, and play (piano, acoustic guitar, drums and strings) traditional hymns and contemporary (modern) Christian music

     2. Record a CD/ Digital copy of our music along with one or several messages spread through the tracks
    
     3. Spread gospel through music, by distributing and making available the copies, free of charge.

     Not only are we enjoying praising God with the singing and playing of music but we are also trying to give people our age an alternative to turning on their radio to secular music. The Music is the attraction but The Message is the key. With a changing society we hope that this method of outreach can have a real impact on our generation.

      The above was a brief summary of the formal members invitation for the newly founded choral group, The Church. The group has a goal of spending this summer practicing, rehearsing and recording several Christians praise and worship songs to give away free of charge. So far we have things going in the right direction and we have a full members list along with instrumentation. Our first rehearsal will be the second last or last weekend in June, the recording, on the other hand, will take place at the Steel Recital Hall on the UPEI campus later in August.

      Thus far we have no means of financial support and are solely holding water by personal and corporate donations. If you would like to know more of the groups progress or get biweekly updates on what has been happening - please e-mail me at ttboudreau@upei.ca with your requests/questions.

        I would be more than happy to hear of  your support financially or otherwise and update you on our work here in PEI.






Also check us out on Facebook - group page oppening June 15 2012.