Nicole Hamilton | University Relations | 4 February 2010
Liz Shropshire, Founder & Director of the Shropshire Music Foundation, spoke at BYU–Hawaii's devotional this past Tuesday about creating peace amidst countries ravaged by war. Her address centered on her own experiences in Northern Ireland, Uganda, and Kosovo, aside from other places she has traveled to.
Shropshire, a music major at BYU who later received her master’s from the University of Southern California, focused on how the gospel has been an integral part of her experiences on international shores.
Of her experience at a camp in Kosovo, she stated, "This camp, this place that had been so full of sadness, became this place that was full of so much life. It wasn't necessarily beautiful, but it was full of life. It took about forty minutes to walk to the camp. On the last ten minutes of that walk, all you could hear were these instruments—it was amazing." Through rudimentary instruments, a resurgence of hope pervaded in the camp.