We want to know what is going on in your city? Submit your event early so it can be found in search engines. You can use the NEW events search option by clicking the "Date Range" and "Google Calendar" tabs below.
- Sep 1, 2012 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm EDT
- Location: Suitland High School (Annabelle Ferguson Auditorium)
- Latest Activity: Jan 25, 2021
Word Alive Christian Center is home of the Bi-Annual Young Adult Interactive Fashion Show. The Bi-Annual Y.A.I. Fashion Show uses fashion as a platform to establish relationships and transform lives with the love of God. Our shows highlight the various problems and struggles our generation currently encounters and relates it back to God on a more practical level.
This years show is entitled, “The Diary of a Wounded Heart”, in which we will address a very strong issue, relationships. The show will be depicted through dance, music, acting, fashion and runway. The main character, Naomi, played by Ti’Shay Green, is engaged to be married to the “man of her dreams”. Externally, their relationship seems ideal and though their peers are not envious of their relationship they want what they have. Both Naomi and her fiance’, Carter, are very attractive driven young adults. Naomi seems as if she is happy and she has it all together, however, she has everyone deceived. Naomi is emotionally drained, emotionally wounded, and emotionally empty. She is internally suffering from depression because she is expecting her relationship to make her happy, which leads to her turning to other sources for fulfillment (i.e. drinking, smoking, etc.). Due to her growing up in a fatherless home, lifes battles, and past heartbreaks, she is expecting Carter to heal her of all her broken places. Her expectations are unreachable and unreasonable because she is making Carter her God. This ultimately creates an unhealthy and verbally abusive relationship in which she becomes consumed with.
This year will mark the fourth fashion show put on by World Alive Christian Center. Each show is driven behind a strong topic or experience that young adults deal with today (i.e. abuse, idolizing, rape, etc.). The fashion show discreetly and briefly brings everything back to God. We are firm believers that performing arts is a great avenue to speak to our generation and change it. Our generation is driven by what they see more so than what they hear. They are very involved with the fashion/entertainment industry, which is why this show can be so powerful in the DMV area. It is not about fundraising for us but giving back to the community and creating a safe haven for young adults to be individuals. It is important that our generation understands that God is after a relationship which will allow them to be themselves, not religion. As long as the show effects one individual, we will have achieved our goal.
Comments