The Sierra Leone Alliance of Western New York has announced a Sierra Leone Benefit Concert featuring Newworldson and Alabaster Box, March 12 at The Chapel at Crosspoint in Getzville, NY. Tickets are $10 each. 

The Sierra Leone Alliance of Western New York is made up of Houghton College, The Chapel at Crosspoint, Edunations, Global Outreach Mission and Jericho Road Ministries. All net proceeds from the concert will directly facilitate the word of Sierra Leone Alliance in providing clean water and sanitation systems, Christian education, health and human services, microfinance expertise and church planting. The Alliance believes these foundation building blocks will enable a national and redemptive move of God in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is located in West Africa and is the third-lowest-ranked country on the Human Development Index and seventh-lowest on the Human Poverty Index, suffering from endemic corruption and suppression of the press.

Edunations, one of the Sierra Leone Alliance Members has been working in Sierra Leone since 2004 is devoted to building schools and a future for the forgotten children across the continent of Africa, beginning in Sierra Leone. Motivated by compassion for “the least of these,” EduNations seeks to connect resources from affluent societies with the needs of the poorest in the world to provide education, opportunity and hope. According to edunations.org, "The tragedies of Sierra Leone, a once strong and noble country, are too numerous to mention here. For many years, this nation has been ranked among the poorest in the world and the worst place on the planet to live. Sierra Leone was utterly ravaged by civil war. The social chaos that followed has left its people devastated and the nation in shambles, faced with unbelievable poverty, hunger, AIDS, a growing sex trade, child trafficking and an ever-present fear of a rejuvenated civil war. Our hope is to help Sierra Leone restore its strength and nobility, by providing its children with the educational tools they need to have any chance at a peaceful, productive, and prosperous life."

The benefit concert will feature Newworldson a soul/pop band originally from Niagara Falls, Ontario. The band has won numerous awards including having their record Salvation Station named one of Cross Rhythms top 20 albums of 2008. Alabaster Box is a six member led band from Australia, now playing full time in the United States.

To order tickets visit https://thechapel.com/waterconcert