In Matthew 28: 5-7: Then the angel spoke to the women. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.  He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as He said would happen. Come, see where His body was lying.  And now, go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead, and He is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see Him there. Remember what I have told you.
The resurrection of Christ is the linchpin of the Christian faith -- the historical event upon which Christian doctrine stands or falls. The apostle Paul makes this clear in his first letter to the Corinthians: But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty. … For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone (1 Cor. 15:13-14, 19).
In fact, the New Testament insists that belief in the bodily resurrection of Christ is a necessary condition of the Christian faith -- no one can be saved apart from it. This insistence is found in verses such as Romans 10:9: Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
            The importance of the resurrection of Christ is demonstrated in the frequency and enthusiasm with which it is preached as the early church grows in the books of Acts. Nearly every public witness to the Gospel points to the resurrection of Christ as the hope for all who desire salvation.

So on Sunday, April 24, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., the Redemption Young Adult Choir invites you to join your voice with their voices in a “Resurrection Praise and Worship” concert. In the program, our own, the great Christian artist Gina D. Lasseur will bless us with songs from her new album Bondye Vivan.

The choir will be performing songs by well known gospel and contemporary composers like Kurt Carr, Carol Cymbala and the prominent Haitian composer Emile Desamours with Pak Ayisyin. After a ‘surprise’ performance by the congregation, the Redemption Young Adult Choir will close the program with the familiar Hallejujah Chorus by G.F. Handel from the ‘Messiah’. It was reported by one of Handel’s servants after Handel had composed the second portion of the “Messiah” that Handel exclaimed, “I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself!” It was at this point in the oratorio, during one of the early London performances, that King George II spontaneously rose to his feet in a spirit of exaltation. Audiences have traditionally repeated this practice ever since.

Br. Rolney Duverny, Conductor.