Getai Singers Perform to the Holy Ghost

Monday, Sep. 7, 2009 Posted: 12:45:24PM HKT

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A getai held Saturday saw singers lifting their voices to entertain not hungry ghosts, but the Holy Ghost.

Coming from a wide range of backgrounds and age groups, performers sang a mix of secular and Christian songs in Hokkien, Mandarin and English.

The skilful and creative line up also turned a well-loved Theresa Teng oldie into a praise song, and sang some of their own compositions.

A crowd of many heart-landers heard from an ‘auntie’ with a love and gift for singing and dancing; a dating expert and author, the first Singaporean performer in New York and one of the well-known 'SK Sisters', and a church band.

There was even a Singaporean pastor leading an Indian church in Thailand who just wanted to praise God on stage.

The aptly named ‘Holy Ghost Getai’ held at Love The World café had its fair share of testimonies of what the Lord had done for the individual performers.

Started last December, the cafe is located on the second floor of the Singapore Flyer complex.

A church group creatively changed the theme of a love song by Theresa Teng into a song sung by God to people, with the chorus running: “Jesus shows My heart” rather than “the moon shows my heart”.

Singer and author ‘Dazzling Diva’ posed the audience a question about the Holy Spirit and gave away a free copy of her latest book, a dating guide with good values.

All this, while a television screen flashed inspiring sound-bites, snippets of church and Christian life with a humourous twist, cartoons, jokes and joke questions all concerning the Bible and the Church.

A getai is an annual event held by Chinese folk religionists throughout the seventh lunar month to distract hungry ghosts that are let out of hell at that time according to their belief.

Edmond Chua
edmond@christianpost.com