Linda Lee presents heaven-themed musical program

By Katie Scarvey

kscarvey@salisburypost.com

Linda Lee was driving and listening to a song on the radio and became inspired. She knew she had to put together a musical event about heaven — and she has.

It’s called HOPE — which stands for Heaven: Our Promise Eternal.

The first performance will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Salisbury Christian Fellowship, 210 W. Ritchie Road.

“Everyone is looking for hope,” Lee says. “Our greatest imaginations, I believe, are limited to what we experience and see here, only a foretaste, a glimpse, of this awesome and glorious future home called heaven.”

The event is a live music celebration designed, Lee says, to “stir our hearts and minds to think about, talk about, sing about, dance about and shout about our real hope: Heaven ... Our Promise Eternal.”

Lee has also made an album with the same name.

She has been a guest worship artist at churches in the area and is currently a member of Salisbury Christian Fellowship.

Before she and her husband moved to Kannapolis five years ago, she was a member of Reynolda Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, where she served as worship leader for three years.

On her website, Lee talks about her early musical leanings: “My mother vividly recalls me sitting on her lap in church at the age of four and harmonizing with her as she was singing, much to the amazement of those sitting nearby!”

Lee has given concerts in churches, coffee houses, prisons and campgrounds, she says. She has traveled with Chuck Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministries and as part of a mission trip to South Africa led worship at The Africa School of Missions in White River.

Sunday’s program will consist of monologue, as well as singing, with a focus on the book of Revelations.

The program will last about 35-40 minutes, Lee says, and will include an audience participation section.

Those who attend will be given a crown at the door, and during the last song, audience members will be invited to come forward and leave their crowns at a throne on the stage.

Jasmine Call will perform a worship dance for the opening. Call, 19, has studied dance since she was 4 years old, including 7 years at Piedmont School of Music and Dance in Kannapolis. She will attend Belhaven University in Mississippi as a dance major in August.

For more about Linda Lee, go to www.lindaleeworship.com.