“We believe the praise of the ONE TRUE GOD crosses every cultural and language barrier; He loves to hear your praise”

— GOMAP

GOMAP

GOMAP means Gospel Music Against Poverty. It will be a Liverpool-based gospel music festival, held annually initially, with the aim to organise more than one in a year in the future.
GOMAP’S BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY:
POVERTY REDUCTION
GOMAP is fundraising using the power of gospel music as a Poverty Reduction Strategy, as some of the proceedings of the tickets of the gospel music festival goes towards poverty reduction projects in our communities locally, nationally and internationally in the long term.

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

At the same time, this festival will be a positive inspirational force to empower youths, especially those who are from disadvantage backgrounds and those facing challenges in our communities with passion and enthusiasm to become emerging talented Gospel singers/musicians so as to be able to reach their full potentials. We aim to help them to become professional gospel musicians as a means of self economic sustainability through Artist Development, Mentorship & Coaching to professionally make their way into the music industry.

REDUCING GANG CULTURE
Also, we aim to take unemployed, poor and disadvantaged youths that have the love/passion for music away from the potential of joining organised crime groups referred to as gangs on our streets, GOMAP is designed and developed to transform the GANG concept to “God’s Anointed Next Generation” instead of the criminal gang concept, GOMAP uses gospel music to put them on the right track and from the dark side of the road to the bright side of the road.

PRAISING THE LORD
We aim to use the power of gospel music to bring people closer together, both believers and none believers as we believe that next to PRAYERS is PRAISES and one way to praise The Lord is with the power of gospel music.

COMMUNITY COHESION

Gospel Music powerfully encourages unity and creating cohesion/community togetherness rather than tension. It will also promote inclusion; Making effort respectfully to ask about others’ lives to build bridges between different alienated groups of people in the community.

JUST SINGING - IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH
By bringing people together to sing the inspiring and uplifting lyrics of Gospel music can be very therapeutic for those struggling with their mental health. There’s no need to be skillful or audition, “JUST SINGING” together as one reminds us we aren’t alone and that God places us in community to strengthen and walk alongside each other.

“THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BEAUTY OF THEIR DREAMS.”

SPONSORSHIP/PARTNERSHIP

AT THE MOMENT GOMAP IS IN SEARCH OF SPONSORSHIP/PARTNERSHIP FOR NETWORKING/COLLABORATING, LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY TO MAKE GOSPEL MUSIC A POSITIVE FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.

UPCOMING EVENTS

GOSPEL MUSIC NIGHT

VOLUNTARY-POWERED LAUNCH

Launching GOMAP in COLLABORATIOn With
LIVERPOOL ARK DISCOVERY CENTRE (LADC)

POVERTY UNITED

Uniting together AgainsT Poverty
With the power of gospel music

VENUE

Love Assembly Auditorium, No.2 steble street, l8 6q4

DATE

SATURDAY 7th december 2024

TIME

6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

TICKETS

FREE EVENT!

MUSICAL ARTISTS

Nunodaman

Nunodaman aka Noah Olaoye is a rapper, gospel rapper, actor and content creator. His credits include Coronation Street, A League of their Own and CBS Sports.

Daisy Gill

Daisy is a singer-songwriter and multi-genre artist. Daisy starred on "The Voice" in 2023 and was mentored by Sir Tom Jones.

Sapphire

Sapphire Ezikpe-Kalu is a passionate singer-songwriter who finds joy in expressing her love for God through music. She has led worship internationally across various churches and gatherings. Her music aspires to resonate with the essence of being in God's presence. She leads the Worship Team for Love Assembly Worship.

Beulah

Beulah is a singer-songwriter whose songs are inspired by the love of God and scripture. With her guitar she incorporates storytelling into her worship music highlighting the redemptive power of our testimony.

Adebisi Adewunmi aka H-MAN

H-Man is A Professional Health Care/Carer and a highly talented instrumentalist drummer. Drumming to popular tunes & Gospel, he has performed at many festivals and events including at The Tung Auditorium where he bagged a trophy for supporting the Development of Humanity and Mankind at Mapfest.

Pastor Walter & The Sound Of Dominion Church Choirs

The Founder of Sound Of Dominion Ministry based in the City of Liverpool. The first Minister Model. Represented the UK on international stage to become the Title holder of the Prestigious *MR SUPRANATIONAL UNITED KINGDOM 2019. As a passionate, and amazing talented Gospel Singer with a golden and velvet voice he leads the marvellous & fantastic Sound Of Dominion Choir.

Afrika Fuentes

Afrika Fuentes is a soulful singer and songwriter who is also an accomplished pianist and charismatic performer who plays a mix of pop, soul and R&B, performing across Europe. She has opened for legendary soul bands such as The Stylistics.

GOMAP 2024 will be headlined by by Gospel rapper, actor and content creator, Noah Olaoye aka Nunodaman. The scouse star has appeared regularly on the likes of Coronation Street and A League Of Their Own has amassed over 400,000 followers on TikTok through his comedy sketches.

Joining Noah on the line-up is Love Assembly's Sapphire; singer-songwriter, Beulah; star of The Voice, Daisy Gill; instrumentalist drummer, H-MAN; Pastor Walter & The Sound Of Dominion Church Choirs; and soulful pianist and singer, Afrika Fuentes.

The launch event of GOMAP - Gospel Music Against Poverty will take place on Saturday 7th December 2024, 6:30pm at Love Assembly, Steble Street, L8 6QH. Entrance is free with donations welcome.

COLLABORATORS

About Liverpool Ark Discovery Centre
The Liverpool Ark Discovery Centre CIC – The LADC, (formerly known as Love Assembly Discovery Centre), was set up in 2012 for the purpose of empowering individuals to discover themselves and their potentials, while also encouraging stronger bond in families and communities.

The LADC started as a community project supported by RCCG Love Assembly Liverpool (UK Charity number 1130539) geared towards meeting the needs of individuals and families in the immediate local communities of the L1, L2, L3, L7 & L8 postcodes of the city of Liverpool, Merseyside UK.

We are currently based in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, our projects are run in collaboration with members of our immediate community, this is to ensure and enable a direct input from our service users especially in the local community. We work with a varied demographic which is reflected in the projects we undertake.

We aim to provide a place and create an atmosphere where:

you can develop yourself; your dreams, your passion, your skills and talents.
you can get trained to become an entrepreneur, an employee or an inventor.
you can meet with potential and relevant service providers; childminders, caterers, party planners/organisers e.tc.
you can hold birthday parties, wedding receptions, conferences and meetings in our multi-purpose rooms and halls.
you can meet people and build relationships that can be of lifelong benefit

All our initiatives are run by a team of trained and qualified professionals and volunteers that have dedicated their time, skill and knowledge to ensure professionalism and good quality services to anyone irrespective of age, religion or gender.

You are welcome as long as you desire to learn something new or give back to the community.

We are always looking for ways to help. If you have ideas, we are here.

LADC is made up of a team of passionate and committed individuals including Paul McKelvey, Fola Oloye, Dr. Ohio Omiunu, Sarah Aribo, and Nkem Bamisil to mention just a few.