The worldwide ministry of Chris Oyakhilome proves beyond all doubt that true Christianity is not boring. Besides being the co-founder of LOVEWORLD USA, along with well-known evangelist Benny Hinn, Oyakhilome is a global healing evangelist and minister.
Recently, Christ Embassy, the ministry of Chris Oyakhilome, held a two-day event in the SSE Arena in Wembley, London, which was a tremendous success. It was so successful that believers who attended from around the world along with local leaders from the United Kingdom made the announcement that they found this Pastor Oyakhilome and LOVEWORLD Event “better than football!”
It seems that the 2018 World Cup matches took place on the same weekend and every seat in the stadium was filled to hear Pastor Chris speak about Jesus! This was a confident statement because it showed that Jesus was achieving the popularity over the sports games of the world, which was unbelievable!
The July Leader’s Conference in the United Kingdom
There were thousands of believers, spiritual leaders, pastors and partners who gathered with LoveWorld at The SSE Stadium on July 14-16. Guests came from Africa, North America, and other countries from all around the world. Pastor Chris had announced that this year of 2018 was the “Year of the Supernatural” so everyone is looking for it to be significant for the entire body of believers.
This July, the SSE Stadium held over 90,000 people for the Leaders and Partners’ Conference. This was the first event held by LOVEWORLD and Pastor Chris Oyakhilome in 2018, and those who attended were very excited and inspired by the words of Pastor Chris. If this event is any indication of what the second half of the year will be like, then God will be shown in all His Glory and many hundreds of thousands will increase their Walk in Love. This Leader’s Conference in London was the beginning of all that LOVEWORLD has in store for “the Year of the Supernatural.”
Pastor Chris expressed how happy he was with his team who had organized the conference and with those who attended. He said he was looking forward to future events and conferences this year with great expectation, and he prayed that believer’s everywhere would feel free to attend. He told his staff that “we are taking this thing to a whole new level by the power of the Holy Ghost, and catapulting everyone to “a new pedestal of faith.” This is going to be an exciting year for LOVEWORLD as they have planned more events in the second half of the year.
Supernatural Events in the Future
Everyone who participated in the preparation and organization of the Leaders’ Conference in July said that it was designed to make a glorious demonstration of the Spirit of God using teaching, preaching, signs, and miracles in order to prepare for greater works to be done.
Because of this revelation, Pastor Chris and LOVEWORLD have scheduled many events for this second half of 2018 in varying locations. The events will be open to the public, including believers and nonbelievers alike. They will be holding Holy Spirit gatherings, conferences, and meetings where the miracles of God will be manifested. All the Glory goes to God. For further info: http://pastorchrisonline.org
Daniel Wise, his directed and produced productions in New York City, on and off Broadway, as well as in Japan, Russia, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Britain and South Africa.
He pioneered the first major Broadway production in Russia (42nd Street, Moscow 2001-2002); and the first Broadway musical in China as a joint production with the China Ministry of Culture (Rent, 2005-2007 featuring the Broadway cast with Karen Mok); as well as the Blues Brothers International Tour; and several international jazz, music and theatre festivals, including Chuck Berry’s international tour of 50 Years of Rock ‘N Roll.
He produced The Gathering on Broadway, starring Hal Linden. He worked on a production with the Peking Opera’s The Monkey King, at Lincoln Center. Wise has collaborated on original works with Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Marvin Hamlisch, Stephen Schwartz, David Shire, Elizabeth Swados and Franco Zeffirelli.
Wise is also the playwright and director of Soul Doctor, the Broadway musical about the life of the father of contemporary Jewish Music Shlomo Carlebach, which opened at Circle in the Square Theatre, in August 2013.
Soul Doctor is the untold story rockstar Rabbi, Shlomo Carlebach, and high priestess of soul, Nina Simone.
After hundreds of sold-out performances on Broadway and throughout the world, Soul Doctor comes to the Big Screen June 13th.
The movie musical was filmed live in Jerusalem, about how music and spirituality formed an unlikely friendship between rockstar Rabbi, Shlomo Carlebach and legendary singer and activist, Nina Simone. Together their music woke up the world and brought to light the common struggles of the black and Jewish communities that still continue today.
Soul Doctor is a tribute to Nina Simone’s enormous influence on the revival of Jewish music and the power of music to unite, uplift, and bring people together.
Video by Magda Katz
New York was treated to a very special cabaret program Thursday night by the international Chanteuse Adrienne Haan, who brought her Carnegie Hall audience to their feet with a thrilling performance of Tehorah, songs by Jewish composers in honor of the 75h anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. Tehorah, means “pure” in Hebrew. This concert was, indeed, a pure delight.
Adrienne Haan is a miraculous force of theatrical nature. As a cabaret performer, she represents the pinnacle of talent, achievement and artistic beauty. She travels the world singing fluently in thirteen languages. How many can do that?
She was breathtakingly beautiful on Thursday night, in a slinky, red, sequined bodysuit and impeccably coiffed blonde hair. Her great physical expressiveness added clarity and meaning to the song lyrics, which were all in German, Yiddish or Hebrew. (Fortunately and wisely, the programme provided translations of all the songs as well). It was the first time I ever saw a cabaret singer do a high kick in the middle of a song…needless to say, without missing a beat.
Cabaret singing is a very personal art form. You never know if you’re going to get a great actor who may not sing very well, or a great singer who stands like a block of wood. Ms. Haan is that rare cabaret artist, who not only has a beautifully trained singing voice, but who is also a superlative actress and dramatic interpreter of her material. It was thrilling to hear her tear her heart out with a guttural expression in “Pirate Jenny,” and yet sing with astounding beauty in the next moment. That is a remarkable feat which only the very best can do.
Her program featured many songs of the Weimar Republic in the 1920’s, representing Germany at a time of great artistic freedom, before the rise of the National Socialists. The evening became more triste as it reflected the anti-Semitism of the years that followed in Yiddish laments. The Hebrew songs balanced that with images of hope and peace.
Ms. Haan was brilliantly supported by a quintet of outstanding, young Israeli instrumentalists. They were Leerone Hakami on first violin, who played a heartrending version of the theme from Schindler’s List, Maya Lorenzen (second violin), Ella Bukszpan (viola) and Tamar Sagiv (cello), beautifully accompanied on piano by Musical Director Udi Gershuni.
At the end of the concert, Ms. Haan expressed her concern that the censorship of books which is happening today bears too great a resemblance to the book burning by the Nazis ninety years ago. That such a thing could happen again, and that the ugliness of anti-Semitism could reassert itself, must not be allowed to happen. We must raise our voices in every way against that, including in glorious song, as Ms. Haan makes it her mission to do.
Ms. Haan is artist in residence at the Triad Theater where she performs her different soireés on a regular basis. This was the first time I had the pleasure of hearing her. But I hope it will not be the last.
The spirit of revival was alive and well, thanks to God is Love Takeover in Times Square Friday night.
Michelle Spence-Jones, the founder of the Loved by God Movement and former city of Miami commissioner, and her followers made Duffy Square a friendlier and more spatial place.
Spence-Jones and Pastor Jewel Newman of the Holy Spirit Encounter in Georgia organized The God is Love Takeover to coincide with the day after Thursday’s National Day of Prayer. The event included a “love walk” and featured speakers, a prayer and a healing tent.
“A lot of people just don’t know that they’re loved, and a lot of people have never received love, or even know what love feels like. And we just feel like, if we can just gather all in one space, in one place, Times Square is a global stage. It’s a way to demonstrate love in a whole other way. What better place to take their message of love than to “the center of the world.”
Shalom! There is another Broadway Shabbat is happening Friday May 5th at 6:30pm Join us for a Shabbat of Broadway Show Tunes and beyond! With singers Douglas Cohen, Joanne Borts, and Neva Small; Aron Bederson, Judy Buchman and Rabbi Jill Hausman, who will perform with Pianist Steven Silverstein. Oneg Shabbat with refreshments after the festivities. In person and on Zoom.
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