10th annual Festival of Lights slated for September
?The 10th annual Festival of Lights: A Celebration of Jesus 2011 will be held Sept. 2-3 at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, located along Route 119 just north of Uniontown.
Sponsored by World Christian Outreach Ministries in Connellsville, the Festival of Lights is using the theme “El Elyon: The Most High God.” The event includes extravagant worship Friday and Saturday evenings with pageantry and banners with Daughters of Judah, 7th Trumpet Worship and Arts Ministry and Davidic dance instructor Terri Stutler.
Saturday workshops will feature Messianic/Israeli dance, prophetic dance, worship with canopy and the making of banners.
Shirley Clawson, coordinator, announced speakers will include David Herzog, a motivational speaker, best-selling author and television host from Arizona; Don and Kathy Hershman, anointed worship leaders/speakers from Kentucky; and Rabbi Ted Simon of Maryland, who has been with the event from the beginning.
The Festival of Lights also welcomes Dudley Perio, an oil driller from Texas who is said to be the subject of a phenomenon in which gold dust appears on his skin.
The website explains the idea behind the Festival of Lights: “Our focus in this ministry has always been on the unity of the Body of Christ: to love him and each other as God meant us to. To be in one mind and one accord agreeing in our Spirits, as we bring extravagant worship to The Most High God.
“We know that Jesus is the Light of the world. At Festival of Lights we are speaking not only of the light that is inside each and every one of us, Jesus, but also speaking of the gifts and the talents that he has given to us.”
The event has been very successful over the past nine years, attracting participants from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, New York, Delaware, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
“People around here don’t realize how big this is,” said Clawson, who moved the Festival of Lights from November to Labor Day weekend last year so that participants could take advantage of an extra day of traveling time and enjoy local attractions.
There is a registration fee for the Festival of Lights but an early bird registration at a reduced price is available through July 29.
Contact Clawson for more information at 724-887-4839 or thelionroars@verizon.net or on the website wwww.festivaloflights-pa.com.