At the festival, delegates of the Catholic Church, the Pentecostal fellowship, the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) and the white garment churches will constitute a 2,022-person National Hymn Festival choir.
, who is now better known as Nigeria’s Reggae music superstar and author, Buchi Atuonwu, is set to host Nigeria’s first-ever National Hymn Festival.
The singer says the initiative is his way of ensuring that “the great hymns that built us up and sustained our faith inspired us to do things and live for Jesus Christ, are not allowed to die”.“I am doing this as a patriot. God speaks to the one who cares, and He spoke to me about doing things that could unite the church. I know that the unity of the church is not about belonging to an association, as beautiful as that may be. That is not what the Bible means by the church’s unity.
“The unity of the church,” he reasoned, “will come through knowledge. Knowledge of the Word of God. How will that happen if you teach a different thing and I teach a different thing, and there is no platform for us or our members to share, grow and investigate the Word; even interrogate one another?”Evangelical Church of West Africa