{"id":29214,"date":"2012-12-12T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=29214"},"modified":"2012-12-12T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:40:20","slug":"festival-of-carols-gets-warm-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/festival-of-carols-gets-warm-reception","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Carols Gets Warm Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Scores of enthusiastic students engaged their musical, dance and vocal talents to usher in the Christmas season in grand style during the \u201cFestival of Carols\u201d held at Golden Gates World Outreach Ministries, Carmichael Road on Wednesday, 5th December, 2012.\u00a0 This year\u2019s theme was \u201cJesus \u2013 A Gift for All Times\u201d This event, hosted annually by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, was well attended by students and teachers from both public and private schools.<\/p>\n

The programme was ably moderated by Miss Edline Major and Mr. Petron Brown, students of C.H. Reeves Junior High School and Doris Johnson Senior High School, respectively. Among the scripture readers was Miss Nadia Smith, the National Teacher of the Year, 2012-2014.<\/p>\n

The astounding musical performances included a hand bell selection by a combined high school group, a recorder selection by two students of the Salvation School for the Blind, a band selection by Doris Johnson Sr. High School, a steel band selection by Uriah McPhee Primary School, and a wind instrument quintet selection by Government High School students. The tradition of Christmas caroling took on a Caribbean flavor as students of Yellow Elder Primary School presented a \u201cCaribbean Christmas Medley\u201d, complete with their own rake and scrape band and wordless skit. Choirs and dance troupes from several other schools also added to the celebratory atmosphere.\u00a0 Later, the audience rose to its feet to join in with the St. John\u2019s High School choir as they sang \u201dWhat a Wonderful Child\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Reverend Arlington Rahming, Senior Pastor of Christian Discipleship Ministries International, in bringing Christmas greetings, stated that \u201cNot often enough do we stop and reflect on the real reason for this celebration.\u201d He reminded everyone present that everything that is good cannot fit into a (Christmas) box. He asked the audience to think about two questions: \u201cHow are we affected by the gift in the box?\u201d and \u201cHow are we affected by the gift that does not fit into the box?\u201d\u00a0 He then submitted that the gift in the box does not last and encouraged his listeners to be of help to people who are less fortunate than themselves.<\/p>\n

Mr. Lionel Sands, Director of Education brought Christmas greetings on behalf of The Honourable Jerome Fitzgerald, Minister of Education, Science and Technology. He acknowledged the talent of the young participants and the creativity of the teachers and administrators who had organized the festival.<\/p>\n

Mr. Sands offered words of wisdom to the students to remember as they focus on gifts and giving this Christmas season.\u00a0 He said \u201cTimes change, styles change, attitudes and tastes change, History and Mathematics books change.\u00a0 Nearly everything we know changes, but Jesus Christ is God\u2019s unchanging and greatest gift.\u00a0 He is a gift that will last for eternity.\u201d Mr. Sands also reminded the students to \u201cbe guided now and in the future to continue to use the gifts with which God has endowed us for the ultimate good, the advancement, betterment and creation of a beautiful Bahamas.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He closed by wishing those present a merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scores of enthusiastic students engaged their musical, dance and vocal talents to usher in the Christmas season in grand style during the \u201cFestival of Carols\u201d held at Golden Gates World Outreach Ministries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[769,238],"class_list":["post-29214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}