You might remember Peter from the Spirit of Uganda 2008 Tour. An extremely talented performer, he was our lead musician and the composer of several of our songs. Peter is just one of those guys who was born with a gift for music. For instance, he’s a self-taught musician who has mastered several traditional and modern instruments. There’s also the fact that he received the highest score in Uganda on the national exams in music in 2005.
Without an instrument in his hands, Peter is a pretty quiet guy — but he’s passionate about music and determined to make a career out of it. In fact, at a small church service at one point along the 2008 tour, the pastor called for prayer requests. Peter wrote his down on a note and placed it in the offering plate. The note read, “Please pray that I can pursue my dream to study music in the United States.” We’re thrilled to announce that his prayer has been answered: Peter is one of our three newest U.S. Scholarship Students, now attending Richland College.
Peter’s dream has long been to study music technology, which isn’t currently a degree plan he could pursue in Uganda. What he’d really like to do is produce music in his homeland, hoping to provide opportunities for the many skilled musicians living there as well as raising the standard of local music production.
As with all our scholarship students, Peter’s goal and vision has become our dream, too. We’d love to see him succeed, and that passion of his is a major part of the reason Peter was accepted into our U.S. Scholarship Program this fall. Peter arrived in Dallas in late December and started classes this week at Richland College. None of us are surprised to find that all of his classes are music classes.
We hope you get a chance someday to meet Peter. When you do, be sure to encourage him in his pursuit of making music. That passion has changed his life already. We’re hoping it will help change others’ lives, too.
