Pastor Trent of Trent Davis Ministries International will lead a Palm Sunday evening concert of hymns to help people prepare their hearts for the reception of Christ on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, on Palm Sunday (March 29) at Golden Gates World Outreach Ministries International. He says the concert will be a worship experience.
"I am of the opinion that you can't walk into a service on Good Friday and really experience the cross if you've not been moving toward it during the Lenten season," said Davis. "Just as Catholics have their Stations of the Cross, we will be singing songs that lead up to the cross.
To that end, Davis will lead the event known as "Hymns by Him for Him" which will also feature Sammie Starr, Minister George McCartney, the Curry Sisters, Jonathan Farrington, Jerrard Rigby, Clement Penn, Pastor Dwight Armbrister and the Fine Arts Ministry of Golden Gates (dancers, Praise team and Nu Voice), Shaback and the Tabernacle Concert Choir.
"This is a concert of the music of the cross -- hymns that were sung or have been penned that detail Jesus' journey to the cross... for example "Lead Me to Calvary" ... "Lest I Forget Gethsemane".
The hymns will be sung by male soloists with congregational singing in between. Davis will also play the piano, the great organ and the hand bells during the evening.
Admission to the concert at which 1,500 people can be seated is free. A free will offering will be received which will go to the Church's Fine Arts Ministry, an area they are trying to expand with more lights and microphones in the choir stand.
The church will also stage an Easter community play on Good Friday, so the monies raised from the Palm Sunday event will also go to the free production on the park. The community play is at 7:30 p.m.
"It's a free concert because we're really concerned with getting the message out to people, so we want as many people to come out as possible," said Davis. "We want everyone to be a part of it, but especially people who love hymns, because the hymns of the faith are one of the things that unite all of the churches (Anglicans, Catholics, Pentecostals, Apostolics, Seventh-day Adventists or any Christian church) because no matter [your affiliation] hymns are a part of your ministry," said Davis.
Davis hosts hymn concerts twice a year. The last one he did was on November 9, 2014, the night of the plane crash in which Bahamas Faith Ministries (BFM) International founder Dr. Myles Munroe and his wife Pastor Ruth Ann Munroe, as well as Youth Pastors Lavard and Radel Parks and Johannan Parks, Frakhan Cooper, Captain Stanley Thurston and American Diego DeSantiago were killed.
"The news of the plane crash came in while the sanctuary was completely filled with worshippers. But all of the songs that were selected were songs of comfort. God had it so ordained that the concert would match the tragedy," said Davis. "And we sung hymns that entire night, and worshipped God and prayed for our neighbors across the street at BFM. But this particular hymns concert is significant because in the week leading up to Holy Week, we are trying to station and prepare our hearts for the reception of Christ on Easter and Good Friday. And the hymns of the faith, like "At Calvary" and "The Old Rugged Cross" that you will hear sung are going to set our hearts in place for Calvary on Friday."
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