Following overwhelming support last year for its inaugural fund-raising concert and worship experience, the Come Alive Collective, led by Chairman Eric Hosin, is making preparations for the second staging, set for Emancipation Day, August 1, on the East Lawns of King’s House. At the 2025 event, which was headlined by gospel titan CeCe Winans at the same venue, some 15,000 patrons attended, and after all expenses were deducted, $30 million was donated to charitable causes.

Hosin didn’t plan to have a second go at staging yet another massive event, which sees worship and music closely intertwined, but he allowed himself to be guided by a higher power as he champions worthy causes and makes giving back his priority.

“After last year, we thought that this was it … it was just a one call that the Lord was making of us,” Hosin told The Gleaner at the official launch on Tuesday at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston. “But we just felt the Lord calling us and saying that we need to call the nation to worship and we came up with the theme as we felt led … A National Call to Worship. We believe that the nation is in need of holiness and righteousness, and God is calling.”