On Friday, the SecondStory Repertory, located at 16587 NE 74th St. in Redmond Town Center, will hold a benefit concert featuring the music of Redmond resident Leona Coakley-Spring.
The benefit concert, “The Journey,” will begin at 7 p.m. and Coakley-Spring, a native of the Bahamas, will perform gospel songs with a Caribbean flair. Tickets are $35 and all proceeds from the concert will go to All Saints HIV/AIDS Shelter in Nassau, Bahamas.
All Saints houses about 80 residents — including more than 30 children — who are HIV positive or living with full-blown AIDS.
Coakley-Spring has been supporting the shelter for 12 years. She and her husband have sent funds to repair All Saints’ roofs, buy wheelchairs, washers and dryers as well as food and toiletries. Her nonprofit organization Terrylee Ministries Inc. supports the homeless and mainly works with the Bahaman shelter. Coakley-Spring said one of the most recent troubles the shelter is facing is a lack of electricity, which has been cut off in the last few months. Candles are used for light and bath water is placed outside to be warmed by the sun.
For more information about “The Journey,” visit www.secondstoryrep.org.
Coakley-Spring will have another benefit concert for All Saints in December at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Bellevue.