IMPACT Youth Choir – Second Annual Sponsor-a-Bus-Seat Campaign

IMPACT Youth Choir – Second Annual Sponsor-a-Bus-Seat Campaign

2024 Tour to Niagara Falls and Toronto

Our IMPACT Youth choir is launching a Sponsor-a-Bus-Seat campaign to offset the cost of the bus for their annual choir tour in June. Please help the choir that has made a meaningful difference in the lives of so many students over the past 19 years!

You can donate online or by check payable to Burke Presbyterian Church with “IMPACT Sponsor a Bus Seat” in the memo line. Mail checks to Burke Presbyterian Church, 5690 Oak Leather Drive, Burke, VA 22015.

Concert at Silver Spire United Church, St. Catharines, Ontario

More about the fundraiser from Director of Music Ministries Julianne Erbrecht

This is the 20th season for IMPACT Youth Choir at Burke Presbyterian Church. Wow! Since 2005, IMPACT has provided a musically engaging, relational, and faith-nurturing environment for teenagers. The choir has provided meaningful music at Burke Presbyterian and in communities on the East Coast, Midwest, and even Canada. Students have visited nursing homes, stocked food pantry shelves, and weeded in community gardens. This choir has truly had an impact on many lives.

Working at Good Shepherd Ministries in Toronto

The highlight of the IMPACT year is an annual choir tour in June. IMPACT has traveled 17 out of the last 19 seasons and the costs, especially the cost of transportation, are high. For our most recent tour this past June, the bus expenses totaled $14,400, most of which were covered by donations received during our first ever Sponsor-a-Bus seat campaign last November. We were overwhelmed by such an incredible response! On November 10, we are launching our Second Annual Sponsor-a-Bus-Seat Campaign to raise money for our upcoming 2025 tour to the Carolinas and could use your help. 

Underground Railroad Tour, Buffalo, New York

Our tour bus has 56 passenger seats. The goal is to have each seat fully sponsored and raise $11,200 by the end of November. Any donation amount is welcome, and you are encouraged to consider a full, half, or quarter seat donation (or more!)

  • Full seat – $200
  • Half seat – $100
  • Quarter seat – $50

There are two ways to donate:

  • Online 
  • Check to Burke Presbyterian Church with “IMPACT Sponsor a Bus Seat” in the memo line

All donations are tax deductible.

On behalf of IMPACT, thank you in advance for your generosity and support of this ministry that has impacted the lives of more than 150 teenagers over the last 18 years.

Peace,

Julianne Erbrecht, Director of Music Ministries

Hymn sing along at the Meighen Retirement Residence in Toronto