“Be­cause of His Love,” a heart­warm­ing Christ­mas con­cert se­ries staged at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, from No­vem­ber 28-30, de­liv­ered three nights of mu­sic, dra­ma and dance that res­onat­ed deeply with au­di­ences.

The pro­duc­tion was mu­si­cal­ly and ar­tis­ti­cal­ly di­rect­ed by Bernadette Scott, with dra­ma di­rec­tion by Dr Helmer Hilwig and chore­og­ra­phy by Tonya Good­ing. Tech­ni­cal sup­port was pro­vid­ed by Franklyn Agar­rat, Celia Wells and Kevon La Fleur, whose com­bined ex­per­tise en­sured a seam­less and mem­o­rable pre­sen­ta­tion.

This year’s con­cert al­so marked a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone for The Love Move­ment, which cel­e­brat­ed 53 years of heal­ing hearts and chang­ing lives through mu­sic and the arts.

For more than five decades, the or­gan­i­sa­tion has used the per­form­ing arts and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty as pow­er­ful tools for in­spi­ra­tion, trans­for­ma­tion and so­cial im­pact.

Found­ed in 1972 by Laugh­lin-Scott, The Love Move­ment be­gan as a mod­est choir of 15 women from the St Ann’s RC Church. Over the years, it has grown in­to a vi­brant non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion ded­i­cat­ed to fos­ter­ing peace, love and uni­ty—one note at a time.

Guid­ed by its mis­sion, to “Heal Hearts and Change Lives One Note at a Time,” the or­gan­i­sa­tion ex­tends its reach far be­yond the con­cert stage.

At the core of its work is the Trin­i­ty of Choirs: the Se­nior Choir, the Re­pub­lic Bank Youth Out­reach Group, and the Lights of Love Chil­dren’s Choir. Through week­ly meet­ings and struc­tured pro­grammes, these choirs pro­vide safe, nur­tur­ing en­vi­ron­ments that of­fer holis­tic sup­port to chil­dren and young peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly those from mar­gin­alised and at-risk com­mu­ni­ties.

The Love Move­ment has touched the lives of count­less chil­dren and youth across T&T, in­clud­ing those from in­sti­tu­tions such as the Cre­do Foun­da­tion, Sophia House, St Mary’s Chil­dren’s Home and Rain­bow Res­cue. In 2024, the or­gan­i­sa­tion ex­pand­ed its out­reach to in­clude chil­dren with dis­abil­i­ties from The Liv­ing Wa­ters Chil­dren’s Home – Our La­dy of the Way­side, un­der­scor­ing its on­go­ing com­mit­ment to in­clu­siv­i­ty, com­pas­sion and care.

Mu­sic, dra­ma and dance re­main the cor­ner­stone of The Love Move­ment’s out­reach. Through cre­ative ex­pres­sion, par­tic­i­pants de­vel­op dis­ci­pline, con­fi­dence and spir­i­tu­al ground­ing—es­sen­tial life skills that help shape pur­pose-dri­ven in­di­vid­u­als and guide them to­wards brighter, more ful­fill­ing fu­tures.