
From Mourners to Missionaries: Living And Praying As Exiles
Grace Covenant Church - Chantilly
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
The principal cellist in the Sarajevo opera dressed in his formal black tails and sat down on a fire scorched chair in a bomb crater to play Albieonini's adagio in G minor. The site was outside a bakery in Vidrin smajlevitch where 22 people were killed buying breaded out of bakery. He performed not just outside of this bakery but for 22 days in honor of the 22 people that died. This man he played in graveyards, funerals, rubble of buildings as you can see behind me as well as in sniper infested streets. His response was I never stopped playing music through the siege. He said my weapon was my cell
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