On February 25th at 6 p.m. in Morris Chapel Pacific held Gospelfest in celebration of Black History Month. The event was extremely well attended. It drew guests from Stockton, Sacramento and the Pacific campus.

Guests flooded outside the Chapel doors in an attempt to get into the sold out event. People who could not find a seat stood in order to be a part of the festivities.

Americans celebrate Black History Month every February in an effort to bring attention to the contributions of African Americans throughout America’s history.

In 1926 what is now known as Black History Month was only a week-long celebration called Negro Appreciation Week.

It was founded by a Harvard scholar named Carter G. Woodson. Woodson chose the second week of February in honor of the birthdays of pivotal black supporters Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

Since then it has grown to the month-long event that Americans know it to be today.

Pacific decided to celebrate Black History month this year in the form of Gospelfest, a free, large-scale gospel concert. Performers included The Carnies, Peter Neumann, Perfected Praise, and the Stockton Community Choir. This year’s Gospelfest also featured a special performance by fivetime Bay Area Gospel Academy Award winner, Minister Debra Q. Henderson, and a special appearance from Pacific alumnus Michael Merriweather.

The Morris Chapel is dedicated to providing a location for Christian worship, for both the Protestant and Catholic religions.

All of the performers inside the beautiful Morris Chapel on Saturday night gathered to share their faith through Gospel music and The Gospel. All of the artists are passionate about spreading the word of God through music and community ministry.

Gospelfest took place during Black History Month because Gospel music itself is a distinctly American kind of religious music that traces its roots to African-American churches of the 1930s.

The event was extremely well attended and the audience, on their feet, seemed thuroughly enjoy the evenings preceedings.

The night was well organized and executed with utmost enthusiam and professionalism.

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