Sunday, August 6
Last night's Festival of Praise was brilliant, even though Hillsong didn't make it this year, but the Christian City Church Band(CCCB) was equally brialliant, especially the "Great is the God' song, and Don Moen came to Singapore for the first time, and his performance was also fantastic and electrifying. His songs are very aspiring.
But guess what, Sidney Mohede of Indonesia and Delirious of Britain will be coming for next year's F.O.P.! Great!
But anyway, before all these praise and worships, the Indoor Stadium was like packed with crowd, and the taxi fare from Tampines costed a bomb. The queue was quite long but it didn't take a very long for us to get in the Indoor Stadium. Luckily, I found my churchmate and gotten a seat which was far much better than Hanwen's and Jerrold's, as my seat could see the screen and the stage much more clearer.
The praise and worship were electrifying, and it was like a concert when it was led by CCCB and Don Moen. The atmosphere was really fantastic, especially when Don Moen kept changing his instrument from violin to piano while singing a song.
I couldn't understand half the sermon, which was preached by Rev. Ed Silvoso, a pastor who was born in Argentina, grew up in an Italian family, and was brought up in Unted States, but his Italian slang was too heavy to be understood. After the whole service, CCCB and Don Moen was like autographing near the entrance, but it was too crowded, so i didn't join the crowd.
To sum up the whole post, FESTIVAL OF PRAISE 2006 ROCKS! Hope Hillsong will be returning on 2008...
I'm definitely gonna go for next year's F.O.P. again, especially when my countryman, Sidney Mohede is coming. No matter you are christian or not, you've got to come for next year's Festival of Praise, satisfaction guaranteed.