Joyful trumpet sound fills the East on Easter Sunday
Residents welcomed the sound and described it as beautiful and amazing.
On Easter Sunday residents woke up to the beautiful sound of a trumpet playing.
The first trumpet sounds were broadcast from the east of Pretoria on Sunday morning at 8:00 for five minutes and could be heard as far as Mamelodi.
Social media pages were ablaze with comments from residents about the sound of the trumpet.
Residents welcomed the sound and described it as beautiful and amazing.
However some residents in the East said they could not hear the sound this morning.
“We can’t keep up with the feedback,” Albertus Potgieter, owner of i-Tickets South Africa and the organiser of the Jesus is King Trumpet Sounds event said.
Potgieter is a local resident and business owner who organised the special Easter Sunday experience.
The trumpet sound was broadcast from the Bronberg mountain top in Pretoria East .
The trumpet sound was to play at 8:00, 13:00 and 18:00 for five minutes at a time.
“Massive speaker towers (powered by Virtual Productions) were erected to point in all directions to reach about 1 million people in the nearby suburbs,” Potgieter said.
“I did a site visit this morning on the mountaintop in Pretoria,” Potgieter said on Saturday.
Jesus is King will also host a virtual event where Easter messages from religious leaders will be broadcast on a live stream during Sunday.
“At 18:00 a special holy communion will be led by Suzette Hattingh after the last horn for the day,” Potgieter said.
He said the blowing of the trumpet symbolised declaration and proclamation of Jesus’s message.
Potgieter said the inspiration for the Jesus is King trumpet sounds event is based on Isaiah 18:3.
“All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.”
READ: Trumpet sounds to be broadcast in East on Easter Sunday
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