{"id":45513,"date":"2017-05-02T07:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T05:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=45513"},"modified":"2017-05-02T07:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T05:48:28","slug":"baptist-womens-choirs-dvd-ekes-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/05\/02\/baptist-womens-choirs-dvd-ekes-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptist Women\u2019s Choir\u2019s DVD ekes more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventh Day Baptists Southern Region Women\u2019s Choir on Sunday made history when they launched their DVD titled <em>Olalikawe Khala Maso <\/em>at Blantyre Cultural Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not attracting a huge audience, the choir, which is made up of women from six districts, fetched more money during auction.<\/p>\n<p>Just after the group which was beautifully dressed in African print <em>(chitenje) <\/em>suits had dished out three songs, there was an auction that saw Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) Chief Executive Officer Eunice Napolo getting the first DVD at K400,000.<\/p>\n<p>Napolo, who was the guest of honour, hailed the choir for launching a DVD which she said has songs with mature messages.<\/p>\n<p>Blantyre City Council Chief Executive Officer Alfred Chanza, who is also a church elder got the second DVD at K300,000.<\/p>\n<p>He then followed it up with other contributions of K500,000, K200,000 and K160,000.<\/p>\n<p>Several other people made contributions during auction of the 10-track DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the choir Jacqueline Welemu and Bettie Namulu hailed people for the support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirstly, we would like to thank God for making this launch a reality. We just planned it but God has fulfilled it. We have worked very hard and we are ready to minister the word of God,\u201d Welemu said.<\/p>\n<p>She also said they have made history as women from different districts in the Southern Region by coming up with a DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the title track, the other songs in the DVD are \u2018Ruth,\u2019 and \u2018Ndizakondwa\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>During the launch, the choir was backed by Dynamics Band which has renowned members, among them guitarist Collen Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Other artists that spiced up the launch include Omba Lipenga and Pastor Favour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventh Day Baptists Southern Region Women\u2019s Choir on Sunday made history when they launched their DVD titled Olalikawe Khala Maso at Blantyre Cultural Centre. Despite not attracting a huge audience, the choir, which is made up of women from six districts, fetched more money during auction. Just after the group which was beautifully dressed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45517,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45513\/revisions\/45517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}