This week we (Isle of Wight YFC) took 2 coach loads of young
people from the island to a Christian festival called Soul Survivor. Call me
crazy, but spending 7 nights under canvas looking after a bunch of teenagers
was an absolute privilege!
At Soul Survivor, eight thousand people get together twice a
day to read the bible together, pray for each other and to go absolutely crazy
in celebration of God’s incredible love. As well as this, there’s loads of
great teaching on different topics, and people also get involved in all kinds
of crazy activities, like ‘colour chaos’, which is basically just hundreds of
people throwing paint at each other all afternoon and having fun!
Among all the fun and madness, there is a lot of time that
we get to just spend with God, and as usual when we make ourselves available to
God, he teaches and stretches and grows us all in different ways. It’s been so
great to get to pray and chat with loads of people this week about what God is
doing in their lives.
After all of the young people got on the coaches to go back
to the island, I hung around at Soul Survivor for a while to see some friends
who were arriving that afternoon to bring groups of young people for this week.
It was so good to see them that I ended up pitching my tent again and staying
another night! Tonight though, I am back in Basingstoke
for a few days and very much looking forward to sleeping in a proper bed again!
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