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| Don Moen performing in Malawi for the first time |
Business, Civic and Professional
leaders in Malawi had a rare life time opportunity as for the first time in the country, they became first people to watch renowned Gospel singer, Don Moen, performing live in Umodzi Park Banquet Hall-ahead
of his performance this weekend at Love Malawi Festival by the fields of Maula
Prison in the capital city, Lilongwe.
Don Moen who arrived Thursday afternoon
in Malawi for the Love Malawi Festival made a solo performance during the night
at the Love Malawi Festival Business, Civic and Professional Leaders dinner in
Umodzi Park banquet hall at Bingu International Conference Centre.
The 600 delegates who filled the
hall drawn from various circles including; Politicians, Government officials,
Business persons, Faith leaders, musicians among others, got thrilled with a
historic performance by Don Moen who delivered some of his popular songs while
seated playing his piano.
From the very start of the performance,
the audience joined Don Moen singing along with him some of his popular Praise and Worship
tunes.
The Praise and Worship Leader, Don Moen said “it is a great honor to be in Malawi” when he took stage, and opened the performance with a song 'Give Thanks' followed by another popular
song 'God Will Make A Way.' He finished his impressive performance of the night
with 'How Great Is Our God' song and the audience
continued singing some verses of the song as he left the stage.
Don Moen performance in the night was just an 'appetizer' for this weekend on Saturday and Sunday afternoon free performance at the Love Malawi Festival in Lilongwe by the fields of Maula Prison where Malawians will for the first time
watch the American singer, perform live with full band. He will share stage with local artists; Great
Angels Choir, Kamuzu Barracks Gospel Singers, Faith Mussa, Suffix, KBG and Love
Malawi Choir.
Love Malawi Festival has
been organised with aim of fostering unity in Malawi through Gospel of Jesus
Christ to be delivered by the international evangelist Andrew Palau. The
festival is collaboration between the Evangelical Association of Malawi and Andrew
Palau and Luis Palau Association partner evangelists.
Evangelist Andrew Palau in the night also shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the diners and he encouraged them to “Seek
for peace and prosperity of the place the Lord has put us,” through prayer
which he emphasized that it has the power to change everything.
He said the aims of the festival are to seek for the prosperity and peace of the city of which they
are living in and he encouraged them to read the bible and believe the
message of Jesus Christ saying his message is still relevant today and it possess power of answering every deepest question that people have in their lives.
He also spoke to the gathering about
how to find peace in their hearts and shared with them his story about how Gospel
of Jesus Christ transformed his life from a young man who pursued selfish life
desires up to the age of 27, the moment the power of prayer changed him after
hearing the Gospel at a Festival in Jamaica.
The dinner was attended by some well
known business persons and politicians including the former vice president Dr.
Justin Malewezi and Leader of Opposition Dr. Lazarus Chakwera.
Former Vice President, Dr.
Justin Malewezi gave a motivational talk on how quality leadership can bring
success in everything. He said a good leader take full responsibility of
anything while the bad leader passes blame on somebody or something when
something goes wrong.
He reminded people of Ghanaian
proverb called “A team of sheep lead by a lion can defeat the team of lion lead
by a sheep.” Malewezi got a standing ovation when he ended his talk stressing
that most institutions, political parties or sporting teams are failing to
perform because of leaders and not the institutions.
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