Wonderful Saturday my fellow readers, how did your Saturday go, well mine was really awesome and I can testify that I feel the effect already (positive effect)
My Dad started as a normal day, I woke up by His Grace, check my notifications on read cash, because I slept while reading articles last night and my data was on all night, I didn't go to work today, because it is a big day, not my day though, well you remember the article I wrote days back "Thank God I didn't miss today" all the rehearsing we have been rehearsing in the live studio session, was put to use today.
Today Saturday happens to be the deal day of the program titled "High Praise" when I started working under my boss (last year) I never knew much about his church activities and all, I was always at the studio trying to learn what I came to learn, it was later I found out that, he's the MD (Music Director) of the church he attends, the pastor of the church he attends, happens to be the Godfather of my pastor, wow what a coincidence, it feels like destiny brought out to meet each other, lol.
What is High Praise
High Praise is one of the biggest programs that is being celebrated every year in Life Renewal Ministries (LRM is one of the biggest churches in Benin City) the program it's sponsored by the pastor and some other people, it's a program made for music (more like a music festival in the church) The pastor "Apostle Godwin Ojuh is the founder and G.O of Life Renewal Ministries" (I won't go into his biography) will only use 5 minutes to preach the word of God, before the praises begin, it was praised upon praises upon praises, I attended last year own as a member and I just seated on the back seat, watching everything going on, but this year, I had an upgrade, I was seating at the place, all the instrumentalists were seated, Church people will surely know how this feels (watching the congratulations from the alter view).
The program was supposed to begin at 1 pm, but due to some delays and stuff (I won't mention it), the program began at 2 pm, most of the preparation they did during rehearsals didn't push through due to time and there was a lot of guest artist in the house (gospel artists) and they also have a lot of activities too, the time didn't work out for our favor today, we kick start the program with worship for God's presence to flow in the arena, followed by a guy that did a hype (He was calling God different names, just like the Yorubas like to hype their king) everyone was jumping for joy and I'm people were moved, the MC was really funny and he made a lot of people laugh so hard.
It was time for the pastor to share the word of God before the praising begin, after sharing the word of God, the choirs took the stage and did their first ministration with a wonderful performance that I really wished, they should be doing the performance every Sunday, cause I really love it, after the performance, they called the ballet dancers, to be honest, I never expected the performance, they also did great and we were clapping for them all through.
The MC started calling the guest artist one after another, the first Artiste that was called to the stage is Phemmy and the wind, they started with worship and end it in praise, a lot of people was feeling it already, the second Artiste called on the stage is Rev Pee, He also started with worship and end it with praise, people were sweating and dancing, the third Artiste called is Godwin (A.k.a Winner Man) a lot of people will know his hit track "When you see me dance, I dance like a winner man oh" He came all the way from South Africa to Nigeria for the wonderful program, I'm sure if they were to award the Artiste that moved the arena the most, the award would be given to Godwin (A.k.a Winner Man) After he was through, the next Artiste that took over the stage is Evang. Bright (He is a tribal gospel artiste) started with worship and end it in praise.
David and the WCC took the stage (David is the name of my boss, but I don't call him by his name though) They weren't given much time to move the arena, because it was already getting late and people never expected to stay that long, they did few songs and I'm sure they were supposed to do something bigger, but time wasn't on our side after they were done performance, it was time for the pastor to perform when he got on stage, the instrumentalists gave a sound and my boss took over the praise, people were dancing to the altar and there was this man that was moved to sing too.
After the praises, the closing prayers were said and everyone was going home, the choirs didn't perform all the songs they rehearse all night, so they decided to postpone it to tomorrow Sunday, which happens to be the church's end-year Thanksgiving.
I left there at 7 pm and I spent a bit of time on the way back home due to traffic, well, not that I'm surprised about the traffic, but I will surely write about what causes traffic on Saturday nights, next Saturday, I am really tired and I just said I should write about it and Publish it before taking my bath and going through your articles.
If you want to watch the live video of the program, I will drop the Facebook link right here, it was Livestream on Facebook.
That's it for today.
6/11/2021
