Renowned worship singer Darlene Zschech is Rwanda.
Zschech who is in Rwanda for the second time confirmed her arrival through an Instagram post but she did not reveal the reason of her travels.
Zschech known for her hit worship song Shout to the Lord was last in the country in 2009 for a the Luis Palau Festivals during the 15th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Shout to the Lord was nominated as Album of the Year for the 1997 Dove Awards and was nominated as Song of the Year for the 1998 Dove Awards. In 2000, Zschech received a Dove Award nomination for Songwriter of the Year and received the International Award for influence in praise and worship.
At the 2009 concert, she performed along side Hillsong team, Nicole C mullen of ‘My redeemer lives’, Building 429 gospel group, Dave Lubben and Rwanda’s Enrique Sifa.
In a 2009 interview, Darlene Zschech, said her dream was to restore hope to the genocide survivors. "I am so convicted to just get in there {Rwanda} and bring hope and love to the amazing survivors and heroes who live in this land today” she said.
Born Darlene Joyce Zschech in 1965, the Australian Pentocostal Christian worship leader and singer-songwriter primarily writes Praise and Worship songs.
Described as a "pioneer of the modern worship movement” she is the former worship pastor of Hillsong team is currently a member of Compassionart, a charity founded by Martin Smith.
In 2003, Zschech released her first official solo album, Kiss of Heaven. Change Your World followed in 2005. She has since released two albums, in 2011, called Simply Darlene and You Are Love. In addition to writing songs, she has written five books: Worship (1996), Extravagant Worship (2002), The Kiss of Heaven (2003), The Great Generational Transition (2009) and Revealing Jesus: A 365-Day Devotional (2013).
On 11 December 2013, Zschech was diagnosed with breast cancer. In a blog dated 30 November 2014, she wrote that she has been healed of cancer, which her doctor termed "quite miraculous".