By Ashley Talley
CHARLOTTE, NC — Voices of Love is one of many gospel choirs in our region. But what makes this choir unusual is that most of its members are homeless or working their way out of homelessness.
Each rehearsal of Voices of Love begins with a prayer. A piano sits in one corner of a large multi-purpose room at Charlotte's Urban Ministry Center. The choir members form a circle. They pray for friends in hospice, a father who misses his daughter, a friend’s wife battling cancer.
“The Urb,” as some people call it, is more than a soup kitchen. The center offers art lessons, soccer, gardening and…Voices of Love.
The choir was formed almost four years ago by a Katrina survivor who relocated to Charlotte. After his death, Phillip Harris took over as the group’s director.
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