All Campus Praise hits campus tonight

The music of praise and worship band f.o.a.m. will float through the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union as All Campus Praise hits the campus again.

All Campus Praise, a worship service seeking to unite the campus ministries at Eastern, will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the University Ballroom of the union.

“Different fellowships from all over the campus are going to come together to fellowship and for a time of praising God,” Laura Pierce, a sophomore elementary education major and co-organizer of the event, said.

She said f.o.a.m., the Wesley Foundation’s student praise band, will lead the worship, and the event also will include skits and other musical solo acts.

“The purpose is so that the whole campus, every different denomination, can just praise God and rejoice in His name,” she said.

Lydia Bruns, a sophomore middle level education major and co-organizer of the event, said the goal of the event is to unify the various ministries on campus.

“I think it’s important to just show that there’s one God,” Bruns said.

“We all worship the same God, and it doesn’t matter what way.”

Jeremiah Cox, a sophomore special education major and leader of f.o.a.m., said the group, made up of five Eastern students, does contemporary praise and worship songs with a popular music sound.

“We got together second semester of last year,” Cox said. “We’re striving to be more of a ministry team than a musical band.”

He said he thinks it’s important for Christians on campus to get together because they are all centered around Jesus.

“We’re already few in number and it just makes sense for us to get together and be one force,” he said.