WILLIAMSPORT - If you’re planning on attending the first Annual Christian Youth Awareness Day to hear some grand organ solos or choir hymns, stay home and watch reruns of “The Lawrence Welk Show” on PBS.

This isn’t your parents’ Christian music by a long shot.

Held Saturday from 5-10 p.m. at the Pickelner Arena in Williamsport, the event is designed to provide an evening of music, faith and fellowship amongst the younger generation in the area.

The event also hopes to dispel the false notion that popular Christian music is as flat, stiff and uncomfortable as a pew seat.

“You mention the word Christian rock music and very few people actually know what the music is like. Many people think it’s going to be real corny. Something filled with choirs singing and bible thumping,” said “Insane” Erik Lane, a State College radio announcer who will act as MC for the event.

“Christian music has changed so much over the past few years, it needed to. Younger people today don’t want to listen to the same stuff their parents and grandparents listened to when they were younger. The music has become more contemporary and yet retains a message.”

Although Christian rock music hasn’t morphed into the likes of bat biting Ozzy Osbourne, it has become more mainstream and head banging.

The First Annual Christian Youth Awareness Day will feature four musical acts, including Christian rap artist, Thaddeus Davis, Christian rock bands: “The Pledge”, “An Early Ending ” and “My Heart to Fear.”