Ghanaians to celebrate Good Friday with Gospel Show

Accra, March 20, GNA - The passion of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, the spiritual reminiscence of his death on the cross and its impact on Christendom is to be given a new impetus on March 25 this year with a Gospel Musical Show by Harvest Gospel Choir.

The show dubbed "Harvest Praise 2005," organised by Harvest Gospel Choir, under the auspices of the Harvest Chapel International, would be used as a spiritual musical platform to minister to the public about the importance of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as well as the exhibition of "Christ-like" love and compassion to the world. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Sunday, "Sir BORAX" Kojo Forson, a leading multi-instrumentalist and a Director of the Choir said the hallmark of the show strategically fixed for Good Friday would be the employment of multi dimensional musical styles, languages, voices, traditional and contemporary, to stir the audience spiritually.

"This is not just a musical performance, but an unadulterated Gospel Show aimed at rescuing the perishing, uplifting and supporting the weak to ensure that Christ's death on the cross is not in vain," Mr Forson, who is also a Deacon at Harvest Chapel International, emphasis. He said the show in its seventh year would blend the good old Calvary Road Incorporated musical agility with the new Davidic musical anointing of the Choir and zoom the interest of the audience unto the dancing floor with "Holy Ghost Charismatic acrobatic movements".

He said the focus of Harvest Chapel International, an evangelistic ministry, which is committed to reaching out to people with the gospel of Jesus Christ through music; drama, preaching and teaching would be emphasis.

Sir BORAX, at Harvest Praise 2004, astounded Gospel Music lovers who thronged the National Theatre to witness the show with his mastery of the six-string musical instrument.

He blended acrobatic display of the feet, and body with jerking movements of the hands and teeth on the guitar to the amazement of the audience, who acknowledged it with "Holy Ghost Charismatic shouts" and wavering of white handkerchief.

The Reverend Fitzgerald Odonkor, Head Pastor of Harvest International Ministries called on Gospel singers to institute a proper moral standard that would help promote and sustain the Christian values and tenets.

He said Christ centred songs would not only ensure the preservation and promotion of Christianity, but also ensure the reaching out to the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Rev Odonkor said the annual Harvest Praise was also a platform for fellowshipping and exhibiting the unity of the body of Christ on earth, "even though we belong to different denominations we are still one in Christ."

He emphasis that the most important single event that had ever occurred in the history of mankind was the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which offered the world the opportunity to reconcile with God.