After the service was over at the Musician’s Es Posible”. It gained the Spanish title at a later
Chapel at NAMM I met several interesting point but was inspired by the excitement Kylin
people. The one that stood out the most to me had that it was possible to play music like his
that morning was this young man who just had uncle. I then began volunteering with Love Light
a friendly and energetic spark about him. Two and Melody, being a Colorado based nonprofit,
minutes into me hearing his story - I knew that teaching weekend music workshops with their
our readers needed to hear him too. Friends…
local partner Sun Valley Youth Center. The
meet Jordan Ham. 2017 Day of Light [WM] Jordan, you have an incredible story founded Love Light + Melody to support kids music, arts, and sports. Brad founded the
to tell here. You were living in Colorado when in Nicaragua. Looking back, I can see how nonprofit in 2007 after meeting a young girl
this journey started. Tell us what you were since I was in middle school the Holy Spirit was named Ileana living in Nicaragua’s capital
doing there and how did the whole move to planting seeds of interest or clues to His calling city’s trash dump called La Chureca. That
Nicaragua happen? if you will. 2015, in God’s timing I had my job story is worth a whole other interview that you
as a vendor on the 16th Street Mall fall apart need to have with Brad. Sadly, in 2011 Ileana
[Jordan Ham] Colorado is home, born and two weeks before Brad asked me if I could help passed away and currently Brad is finishing a
raised. Since I was a kid, I had always been his parents and sister in a big move they had documentary honoring her life in hopes that
a huge fan of a local musician, Brad Corrigan, to make. her story will bring long lasting protection to
mission of the nonprofit is to empower at-risk
kids in extreme poverty through education,
who played in one of my favorite bands,
thousands of other kids. After Brad invited me
Dispatch. He was a great guy to look up to Blessing Brad’s family blessed me with the on a trip to Nicaragua to play music in a trash
because he loved Jesus, in fact, the first time I discovery that I loved teaching ukulele. My first dump the rest was history.
met him was after he played in a church service student was Brad’s nephew Kylin. We wrote a I attended. I was super inspired by how he song together in our first lesson called “Todo
February 2020
[WM] So you traveled to Nicaragua. When you
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