Repurposed
In today's sermon I heard the word brokenness. It's a difficult word to embrace.
"God uses broken things." writes Vance Havner. "broken soil to produce a crop... broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength."
I have played with the word, turned it around, looked in the mirror and looked through the window.
Twenty-five hundred families live in deplorable conditions in Cateura, Paraguay , an island that has only one business—recycling trash. According to a UNICEF report more than 1500 tons of solid waste arrives every day. The people of Cateura comb through piles of garbage looking for items to recycle and sell.
Favio Chavez, a music teacher, wanted to teach the children of Cateura how to create beautiful music. The purchase of instruments—impossible. So Chavez asked a local carpenter to construct instruments he had never seen nor heard. Chavez supplied pictures, templates and a chance to hear the sound of the instrument.
Two carpenters scoured the trash to find items to recycle—to repurpose. String instruments, woodwind instruments—all created from trash. And Favio Chavez taught the children how to play—an orchestra emerged. The music —beautiful.
Trash, raked and picked over to find the right items to repurpose. The two men knew what they needed for each instrument and searched until they found exactly what they required.
They rescued dirty, broken trash and these pieces, when put together by two men, turned into musical instruments. A cello, made from a rusty oil can produced sonorous sounds.
"The world sends us garbage, we send back music," says Favio Chavez. The release of a video of their orchestra pinged from one person to the next person—over half a million people listened to their music.
"God uses broken things ..."
"God uses broken things." writes Vance Havner. "broken soil to produce a crop... broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength."
I have played with the word, turned it around, looked in the mirror and looked through the window.
Twenty-five hundred families live in deplorable conditions in Cateura, Paraguay , an island that has only one business—recycling trash. According to a UNICEF report more than 1500 tons of solid waste arrives every day. The people of Cateura comb through piles of garbage looking for items to recycle and sell.
Favio Chavez, a music teacher, wanted to teach the children of Cateura how to create beautiful music. The purchase of instruments—impossible. So Chavez asked a local carpenter to construct instruments he had never seen nor heard. Chavez supplied pictures, templates and a chance to hear the sound of the instrument.
Two carpenters scoured the trash to find items to recycle—to repurpose. String instruments, woodwind instruments—all created from trash. And Favio Chavez taught the children how to play—an orchestra emerged. The music —beautiful.
Trash, raked and picked over to find the right items to repurpose. The two men knew what they needed for each instrument and searched until they found exactly what they required.
They rescued dirty, broken trash and these pieces, when put together by two men, turned into musical instruments. A cello, made from a rusty oil can produced sonorous sounds.
"The world sends us garbage, we send back music," says Favio Chavez. The release of a video of their orchestra pinged from one person to the next person—over half a million people listened to their music.
"God uses broken things ..."
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