GBC Western Radio of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Sekondi has held its 2019 festival of nine lessons and carols to usher in the Christmas festivities.
The festival of nine lessons and carols tells the fall of humanity, the promise of the Messiah, and the birth of Jesus Christ is told in nine short Bible readings or lessons from Genesis, the prophetic books and the Gospels. It is interspersed with the singing of Christmas carols, hymns and choir anthems.
The festival which was on the theme, “THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD”, had in attendance choirs from the Takoradi Central Musama Disco Christo Church and the Messiah Singing Group from the USA. They entertained the audience with various renditions of Christmas carols and songs depicting the Christmas mood. The first lesson taken from Genesis 3:8-15 which told the story of the fall of mankind was read by the Western Regional Director of the GBC, Mr Philip Baidoo.
Eight other lessons on the prophecies concerning the coming of the messiah were read by Mrs Kate Biney of the Ghana Education Service, Mr Fiifi Buckman of the Ghana Bar Association, Mr Kwesi Blankson of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors, Mr Kwame Tugbenu of the NCCE and the Reverend Evelyn Oppong- Kunadu reading the last lesson.
In a Christmas message, the Minister in charge of the Good Shepherd Methodist Church at Tanokrom, a suburb of Takoradi, the Very Reverend James K.K Otchere urged Ghanaians to use the Christmas period to reflect on their lives and seek the face of God by focusing on kindness, love and peace.
He said Christians should seek after the things of God and worship Him in truth and in spirit to obtain the real peace from above. He said as the light of the world, Christians should let their character portray the true meaning of Christianity and not let the reason of Christ’s birth be in vain.
Story filed by Marie Aziz Tunde.
