Gbenro Adesina
The Apostolic Faith Church, West and Central Africa (WECA), on Saturday, August 20, 2022, held its 2022 Camp Meeting Concert where about 500 choristers performed both foreign and local spiritual songs.
The musical concert attended by government officials, traditional rulers, religious leaders, media practitioners and captains of industries signaled the end of the first week of its ongoing two-week Camp Meeting holding at Faith City, Igbesa, Ogun State.
In the first half of the programme, the choir rendered eight special songs including: Dentigen to Deum/We Praise Thee, O God by G. F. Handel, From Low to the Modest by Daniel Lubashevsky, Jehovah bu Eze medley (igbo), Le grand Capitaine -mamu akpe/me zu nu kpokpo (french), I Will Extol Thee by Harold Lowden, Everybody say Amen by Arr. Edwin Young, and Every time I feel the spirit by William Dawson.
The second half which started with “Praise My Soul the King of Heaven” by the congregation and organ, had other ten which elated the spirit of the congregants.
The ten songs are: “The marriage of Figaro”, (overture) by W. A. Mozart, “Stayed upon Jehovah” by Arr Jeff Cranfill, “Eyak Kpupru Owo Edara” (Efik Special), “Kini Ayo Re” (Yoruba Special), “Step into the Water” by Kirk Talley, “The Blood Bought Church” by Nancy Harmon, “Except from Israel” in Egypt by G. F. Handel, “The Lord Shall Reign”, “For the Horse of Pharaoh”, and “And Miriam, the prophetess”.
In his few remarks, the Church District Superintendent in charge of West and Central Africa, Rev. Isaac Adigun said that the Almighty God gathered the congregants at the camp to revive them all.
Adigun said, “God has scheduled two weeks of special revival for all of us. We are ending the first week today and we have wonderful testimonies of miracles, of deliverance from the shackle of sin. We are looking forward to the second week with high expectations of what the Lord is going to do for us.”
Giving the vote of thanks, Venerable John Taiwo from St Michael Anglican Church, Ojoo, Lagos West Diocese, Lagos State, said, “I have only come so that l will stress off the stress of Nigeria and l feel that it should happen now that we should just be caught off and go to heaven.”
His words, “Heaven is full of joy. In heaven there is no darkness, no sorrow. It shall be joy for ever.
“Seventeen (17) years ago, it happened that l had a concert like this at Anthony Village. I was invited by a friend. Since then, l have been looking forward again to camp and this is my second time. I have only come so that l will stress off the stress of Nigeria and l feel that it should happen now that we should just be caught off and go to heaven. I felt elated and l felt to be a child of God and also to see things happening at this particular time.
“I cannot imagine how 500 choir has come together in one voice and you can see the presence of God here. I think, this evening, without doubt, as many who are here, everyone of us is healed body, soul and spirit. And if you doubt it, with this inspiration of hymns, you can check your body and see there is a healing through this concert today.
“I am going with good news. I am going to tell everyone all over the world that Jesus reigns here. I want to sincerely appreciate God for what daddy just said that none of these choir was paid. You can see, the church of today, if you don’t pay them, they won’t come. See the dedication, see the commitment, see the discipline. I want to sincerely pray that the God of heaven will continue to use this as a message to the world that we can do all things for him and he will supply all our needs according to his riches in glory. Tonight l am richly Blessed. Tonight l have that grace of the second time of the healing of the spiritual and physical. The Lord will keep us. Until he comes, may we be faithful.”
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