Imagine, if you had watched the Ghanaian TV3 on Sunday, probably you could have seen me, because we went to see a very popular TV program, The Pulpit form inside! We set of with about twenty children in the afternoon (who were all wearing their very pretty church dresses), we all sat in a bus, and left for the TV, where they were already waiting for us. After taking some group pictures outside of the building, we walked in, passing by all the rooms where they tell the news and everything like that. We got there early, just in case, so we had to wait for a while till we actually got to go in the place where the program was recorded.
Alright, The Pulpit is a program to which I have never seen anything similar before! The script is the same as in any kinds of shows, like X-Factor or Megastar: you can vote for the candidates and this way from week to week you have less and less of them. But a the theme is pretty much different: instead of singing or dancing there are young kids worshiping God, performing a pastor`s speech concerning certain topic that are given to them! Alright, before and between the speeches there was some singing and dancing, too: there was a quire performing church songs that everybody was clapping and dancing for. It was really great! Since I`m pretty bad with music, at first I was a bit worried, concentrating on how I should dance, when I should clap and everything like that (since I was in the TV!), but it was so great that pretty soon I forgot about all these and found myself dancing in the front with all the other people. Then about the speeches: today`s topic was faith and it was to children`s job to decide what they want to say about that. There was one for example who was talking about how we rely on the reality of things that we can touch and sometimes forget about the other reality that we can`t see or touch… Or then there was another one who had an example of a mobile phone and a SIM card: they have no use without each other – just like faith has no use without work and work has no use without faith either… It was so great, they really had such good thoughts though they were just kids!! And this whole idea about having a show like this… I think here religion is really just naturally part of people`s everyday life, it`s there in every movement and absolutely not something that you just practice maybe once a week in church. And it`s also about freedom, too: all the church songs that you also dance to and everything – they just make it become all a really fun thing.
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