“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Our Beginning & Transformation
Love Letters, A Universal Sound began in the year 2000 as a nonprofit community outreach organization serving youth ages 5 to 15 through after-school tutoring and summer music enrichment programs. With the support of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas Department of Community Programs, we faithfully served our community for more than 15 years, planting seeds of learning, creativity, and purpose in the lives of at-risk children.
Our mission was simple yet powerful: to provide a safe and loving space where children especially those from low-income families could learn, dream, and grow through the power of education and music. Through hands-on activities, creative expression, and educational field trips, we made learning joyful and meaningful, leaving a lasting imprint on the children and families we served.
When the pandemic changed the world, it also transformed us. Though our physical doors closed, our mission did not. God opened a new door.
What began as a local outreach evolved into a global voice through the Love Letters, A Universal Sound storytelling podcast. Through real-life stories, spiritual truth, and original inspirational music, we continue to educate, uplift, and inspire hearts across the world.
This podcast exists to speak honestly about real life, real pain, and real healing. I begin by sharing my own journey childhood abandonment and a faith shaped through hardship creating space for others to see themselves, find hope, and experience restoration.
Today, the mission remains the same. Only the method has changed. The stories and the music now work together in ways we never imagined, proving that what the pandemic closed, God redeemed.
At Love Letters, A Universal Sound, we recognize that pain and trauma do not discriminate. Every heart carries wounds that only God can heal. Our prayer remains that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, we continue to share inspirational and motivational songs and testimonies that bring light to hidden pain and hope to the brokenhearted.
Founder: Debora Washington
501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization
EIN: 71-0803514
"How My Yesterday Shaped My Today"
When I was 7 years old I watched, helplessly as my younger sister Sherlyn, burned alive in our home. She was five years old.
Soon after my mother gave birth to another baby girl. But the weight of grief and her struggle with mental illness became too much. One day my mother walked out the door, leaving her five kids behind.
For many years, I cried in searched for my mother. When I finally found her, I was fifteen years old and nine months pregnant. Six weeks later, my mother took her own life.
These experiences shaped everything that followed. They taught me how deeply a child's beginning can affect their future, and how unaddressed trauma can echo through generation.
My life became a testimony of how broken beginnings can still be bent by God's redemption and why healing must be passed on to the next generation.
Mission Statement:
The mission of Love Letters A Universal Sound is to share original inspirational songs and storytelling that speak to the human experience. We confront trauma, abuse, and brokenness while offering a message of healing, resilience, and spiritual resurgence.
Love Letters A Universal Sound Organization. EIN: 71-0803514
God Is Everywhere
1990
Some people talk about the birds and the bees. Some talk about life, and how things used to be. But I want to talk about God, between you and me. So don't be afraid, God is everywhere. Some people talk about the wind and how it blows.. some talk about the rain and the snow and some people talk about the bad.. and where they will go.. but only God knows.. Cause He's Everywhere.
Warning Signs
1989
Tommy, come here!
I heard about the guys you're hanging with now, and, I know they’re selling. Can we talk? What do you mean you don’t have time to talk to me? Well then, will you listen to your warning signs, there in your mind you know telling you.. Don't go-- don't go-- over there.
God's Love Letters
1996
The ones, the ones, blessed be, the ones... Won’t you, say it again … Oooo. Blessed be, blessed be, the ones….God has a love letter written for you. A fascinating book impregnanted (with truth,) oh yeah.. God's letter, many love letters, written, waiting, for you. Won't you say it again Oooo. It's written!
