Creative Christian Arts Ministries International Apostle Henry Higgins, right, presents a plaque to Christian Massive gospel singer during the recent Gospel Heritage Festival. (Photo: Henry Higgins)

The recent Gospel Heritage Festival helped people to understand that God wants them to lift him up in glory through their culture, and that they should not be ashamed of what makes them uniquely Bahamian.

Creative Christian Arts Ministries International (CCMI) led by Apostles Henry and Ann Higgins, hosted the three-night event with the hopes of winning souls for Christ as they proclaimed the glory of God and paraded through the streets playing authentically Bahamian music and displaying Bahamian expressions. The ministry continued at Windsor Park where liturgical dancers, praise and worship teams and gospel artists ministered the word in their performances.

CCMI ministers said they wanted people to understand that they can express God's culture through who they are as a people.

On the first night of the three-night event, praise teams ministered at the park; on day two, dance groups and praise teams took to the streets with flags and banners lifting up the name of Jesus; and on night three, hip-hop and reggae gospel artists took the stage and ministered until the wee hours of the morning with performances from the likes of Christian Massive, Peter Runks and Gospel Boys.

Higgins said he felt they achieved their mission as Bahamians turned out in droves to worship and celebrate.

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