Christian group holds feast Dec 13

No fewer than 25,000 delegates are expected to attend the eight-day festival of doctrinal and exhortation sermons, songs, dances, processions and divine convocations. GKS celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles first in Kakawa Street, Lagos in 1935. A statement issued by the Publicity Secretary of the church, Brother Benedict Hart stated that 16 sermons had been […]

No fewer than 25,000 delegates are expected to attend the eight-day festival of doctrinal and exhortation sermons, songs, dances, processions and divine convocations. GKS celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles first in Kakawa Street, Lagos in 1935.

A statement issued by the Publicity Secretary of the church, Brother Benedict Hart stated that 16 sermons had been listed for presentation to various categories of persons including women and children while no fewer than 40 choral and cultural groups from different parts of the country and abroad will perform in praise of God Almighty and His Son Jesus Christ, the Tabernacle of God who is now with men in spirit.

The groups’ performances will be in addition to presentations from branch choirs from various parts of the country.

Delegates to the feast are expected from United Kingdom, United States, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, the Caribbean, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa among others.

One of the spectacles of the feast is the procession of the celebrants through the streets of Warri. Many of the residents in Warri look forward to the carnival-like atmosphere evoked by the stream of musical floats, gaily-dressed celebrants, many of them in uniform, holding aloft banners signifying their branches and bearing exhortations lifted from the Holy Bible.

The statement said already, hotels in and around Warri were being booked in readiness for the celebration, while the proprietors are expectedly giving face lift to their facilities.

Traders are also restocking with wears, food items, provisions and so on, to cater for the needs of the delegates who contribute in no small measure to boosting the sagging economy of the oil city. Transporters are also gearing up to make wind-fall gains due to the influx of visitors.

President of the GKS, Brother O. E. Aighalua will deliver a special message to the celebrants entitled “Be Strong and of a Good Courage, in which he is expected to review the political, economic and social conditions of the world in the past one year.