Calvin To Host Gospel Choirs

November 9 , 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY

For the second straight year, Calvin College will be hosting a gospel choir concert, this year featuring choirs from Calvin, Grand Valley, Hope, Michigan and Bowling Green.

It will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 18 in the Calvin College Fine Arts Center and is free and open to the public (a freewill offering will be taken to benefit local churches).

"Last year over a thousand people attended, and it was a very, very diverse crowd in terms of ethnicity, race and age," says Jermale Eddie, a project developer for Calvin's office of Multicultural Student Development. "Basically, it’s an army of God’s children giving him honor and glory."

Eddie is collaborating on the concert with Wesley Morgan, an admissions counselor at Kuyper College and Nate Glasper, who directs gospel choirs at both Calvin and Grand Valley.

The theme of the concert is "Where Are You?" - based on Ephesians 6:12: "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."

The concert is slated to start a little earlier than in previous years to allow for a prolonged period of fellowship afterward. Both Johnny’s and the Fish House coffee house will be open post-concert to allow both choirs and audience to have refreshments and mingle. Eddie looks forward to welcoming a wider community to Calvin and vice versa.

"This is a bigger than a Calvin thing. It's a God thing," he says.

For the full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/gospel-concert.htm
Contact Jermale Eddie at 616-526-7061 or jde5@calvin.edu

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Received on Thu Nov 9 10:03:04 2006