Worship Harvest at last finds home
AFTER celebrating previous Alivefests in different venues, Worship Harvest Ministries has finally found a home for their annual praise and worship festival — the elegant St. Francis Community Centre.
By Raphael Okello
AFTER celebrating previous Alivefests in different venues, Worship Harvest Ministries has finally found a home for their annual praise and worship festival — the elegant St. Francis Community Centre.
Why the audience and two performing groups dedicated two hours to screaming and stomping in a deliberate attempt to bring the centre down, albeit to no avail, was a tad puzzling. But at a time when the university was recovering from an unpleasant strike, which claimed a student’s life, the evening was a unique consolation to the students.
This year, the Makerere-based Worship Harvest Ministries invited Kampala Pentecostal Church’s dance troupe, i4c (Icon for Christ), to join them in worship. They could not have invited a better group to participate in the two-hour music festival that started shortly after 5:00pm.
Some of Worship Harvest’s glorious and powerful voices on the night, Beatrice Agaba, Jeremy Byemanzi, Rhoda, Evangeline Natukunda and Mosze Mukisa, traversed over 12 inspirational worship songs which included: When I think about the Lord, At Your Throne, Declare His Glory, You are All I want, and Better is One Day.
The popularity of the songs was unmistakable as the predominantly university student audience, occupying the lower and upper decks of the centre, sprung up to dance and sing along.
I4c’s invigorating choreography added more punch in a crowd already thrown in frenzy. With fine dexterity, i4c took journeys through contemporary African and western choreography as they performed to Dean Salyn’s He is Yahweh, Ambassador’s Inkane and Lamar Campbell’s Can’t Nobody Tell It.
From the fusion of ballet and a curious African traditional dance, Lingala to western Hip-hop dance, i4c’s choreography defined the dynamism of modern day praise and worship. And who said born-again Christians cannot party?
AFTER celebrating previous Alivefests in different venues, Worship Harvest Ministries has finally found a home for their annual praise and worship festival — the elegant St. Francis Community Centre.
Why the audience and two performing groups dedicated two hours to screaming and stomping in a deliberate attempt to bring the centre down, albeit to no avail, was a tad puzzling. But at a time when the university was recovering from an unpleasant strike, which claimed a student’s life, the evening was a unique consolation to the students.
This year, the Makerere-based Worship Harvest Ministries invited Kampala Pentecostal Church’s dance troupe, i4c (Icon for Christ), to join them in worship. They could not have invited a better group to participate in the two-hour music festival that started shortly after 5:00pm.
Some of Worship Harvest’s glorious and powerful voices on the night, Beatrice Agaba, Jeremy Byemanzi, Rhoda, Evangeline Natukunda and Mosze Mukisa, traversed over 12 inspirational worship songs which included: When I think about the Lord, At Your Throne, Declare His Glory, You are All I want, and Better is One Day.
The popularity of the songs was unmistakable as the predominantly university student audience, occupying the lower and upper decks of the centre, sprung up to dance and sing along.
I4c’s invigorating choreography added more punch in a crowd already thrown in frenzy. With fine dexterity, i4c took journeys through contemporary African and western choreography as they performed to Dean Salyn’s He is Yahweh, Ambassador’s Inkane and Lamar Campbell’s Can’t Nobody Tell It.
From the fusion of ballet and a curious African traditional dance, Lingala to western Hip-hop dance, i4c’s choreography defined the dynamism of modern day praise and worship. And who said born-again Christians cannot party?