…Adventists to put on mega concert Saturday evening

An avenue for Christians to have clean entertainment this festive season has been opened once again by the Guyana Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA), which will host its 2018 Advent Praise music and drama concert.

The event, which takes the theme ‘He is Everything’, will take place at the National Culture Centre (NCC) on December 22 at 20:00hrs, and will see performances from both local and international artistes.

These include International Award-Winning Gospel artiste from Antigua and Barbuda Peetron Thomas; famed gospel artiste and producer Samuel Medas; the overseas-based Dynamic Force gospel singers; Earl Bishop and band; Roy Stewart and his saxophone; the evangelicas and many more.

There will be stand-up comedy by Wendell Jeffery versus Quinton Allen while drama performances are set to keep the audience laughing and at the edge on their seat. “It’s clean Christian comedy, free from any lewd connotations or anything like that,” explained the Conference’s Youth Director, Pastor Mervyn Smith.

According to Smith, tickets have been disappearing fast with just days to go and are now only available at the NCC’s box office at $1,000 and $1,200.

“This has been the fastest the tickets have been sold so we’re pushing for a full house,” he said, noting that the event hosted by the Conference’s Youth Ministries Department has been around for some three decades.

Although the content to be received is of high quality, Smith said that the ticket prices have been subsidised to allow every Guyanese the affordability to attend.

Leaving a word of encouragement for those debating whether to attend, he said: “This is history-making, you need to be out there. It’s close to Christmas so it’s the perfect time to go out with your friends; to go on a date and we know that there are not many options for Christian young people or Christians in general during this season, ironically. So, we represent by giving Christians a sundry of all they can enjoy with good conscience.”