The event will be held in the Dining Hall/Commons of Moorestown Friends School, on Sunday, April 8 from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
FEP, the Friends Enrichment Program of Moorestown Monthly Meeting, is pleased to announce that the praise dancers of God’s Golden Girls Praise Ministry of the Praise Church of God, in Pennsauken, will perform at the annual FEP Music and Dance Medley, which will be held in the Dining Hall/Commons of Moorestown Friends School, on Sunday, April 8 from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
Ranging in age from five to 15 years old, God’s Golden Girls will perform in two separate teams under the direction of Christina Barnes, the group’s leader and choreographer.
“I tell our girls we dance for a reason,” Barnes said. “We dance to bless souls. We dance in hopes that others will be healed. Lastly, we dance as a form of ministry.”
Nyarah Hollis, a Moorestown High School freshman and a senior Golden Girl, will do the introductions. She will also dance a solo to the Grammy Award winning recording of Smokie Norful’s “Dear God.”
Nyarah dances with fervor. She is an inspired and inspiring praise dancer. When she was in the seventh grade, she created and taught a praise-dance to a group of FEP girls and she performed with her group in the 2016 Music and Dance Medley. Her solo in this year’s medley is a new experience for her.
The annual FEP Music and Dance Medley is a celebration of youth and its potential, an opportunity for school-age dancers, gymnasts, musicians and other talented young people to grow in self-confidence as they step up to the plate and perform in a fast-paced, eclectic program before an audience largely composed of FEP volunteers, peers, siblings, parents, grandparents and family friends.
In this year’s medley, the youngest performers are five-years-old and the oldest are seventeen. Kids who are active in the FEP school-year program of Sunday afternoon activities are encouraged to participate. Also encouraged are young Friends, Moorestown Friends School students and young friends of FEP and Friends.
Included in the event is a display of children’s artwork. Refreshments will follow the performances.
Admission is free and is open to the public at large. Freewill donations will be gratefully accepted, and the proceeds will be spent on scholarships for qualifying Moorestown children to enroll in art classes or sports clinics, take music lessons or enroll in other age-appropriate life-enhancing activities at no cost to their parents.
For more information, call Monique Begg at (856)235–3963.
