A NEW Pentecost festival, combining worship and the arts, is taking place in London this weekend.
The festival was conceived by the late Rob Frost, a well-known evangelist, and his son Andy. Events include a pop opera, Luv Esther, in King’s Cross, a comedy night in Soho, a political debate in Westminster, and a dance evening in Waterloo. There will be outdoor performances in the Victoria Embankment Gardens and on a specially erected stage in Leicester Square. The Archbishop of York is to preach at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
The event coincides with a celebration for the Global Day of Prayer on Sunday in in Millwall football stadium. Organisers say that 30,000 people are expected to attend the third such day of prayer, which will focus on the environment, knife and gun crime, social unrest, and the need for political change.
The Bishop of Barking, the Rt Revd David Hawkins, who chairs the Global Day of Prayer trustees, said: “The political change we are looking for is a greater engagement by government, central and local, on the issues which the Church is taking up.”
Bishop Hawkins, who is the Arch-bishops’ adviser on black-majority churches, said: “The Prime Minister is increasingly interested in these large events and in the growing strength of the black churches.
“There is a new black-majority church being opened every week in the capital, and they are well backed with finance and they are growing.”
The day had a wide appeal, he said. “We are identifying with the powerful and the powerless, the privileged and the underprivileged.”
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