Students Gather in Praise at Homecoming Gospel Show

This weekend's Homecoming festivities ended with joyful noise as Prestige hosted the Gospel Concert in Cramton Auditorium Sunday evening, beginning at 7p.m.

I. Am. We. opened last night's gospel concert with a moving praise dance, overcoming some early technical difficulty.

Marcus D. Wiley, from the Yolanda Adams Morning Show, was the concert's host. He kept the audience laughing between the acts.

The Howard University Gospel Choir, clad in all black, performed a high energy set; including "Lord Do It" and "I Need You to Survive."

Y'anna Crawley, the winner of the second season of BET's Sunday's Best, performed her single "I Believe." "Yes I believe... That He saved my soul. He made me whole,"she sang.

"You can be the miracle that you're waiting for," she told the audience before performing "The Promise."

Next, LaShun Pace, took the stage; telling the audience,"another day's journey and I'm so glad about it." The entire audience joined Pace in an a cappella rendition of "I Know I Been Changed."

The concert picked up the pace when Vashawn Mitchell began his performance with, "Trouble Don't Last Always" and continued with "I'm Chasing After You." Members of HGC performed with him.  The audience continued to sing "Nobody Greater" after Mitchell had left the stage.

Students sang and danced in the aisles while they waited for the concert's headliner, Shirley Caesar. Pastor Caesar mixed humor and spiritual wisdom in with a power-packed performance--she even had to take off her false eye lashes.

"I've never seen Jesus, but I know he's there because I feel him," she said.

Students flocked to the stage when invited by Pastor Caesar to move closer to the stage and dance with her and her background singers. Caesar even walked through the aisles in order to better rely her message of the power of God.

"I need y'all to help me have church," Caesar said. " Y'all look real good tonight but we gone have church and we can look good later."