second part of summer

Second installment on my summer people!

So really the second installment spread over the period of 8 days where I was on Parachute crew. Parachute is a big Christian festival that runs over a weekend, arrive Friday, there all Saturday and Sunday and leave Monday. So I was on village crew from the Sunday beforehand to the Tuesday evening afterwards.
Village crew was by far the coolest crew on the whole set up team. We set up the “village” which is where all the stalls and food things went. People spent lots of their time in the village and it was a pretty cool place to set up. It mainly consisted to setting up many marquees and putting out chairs (only 1300 of them).
I think definitely a big highlight for me was getting to help on the waterslide construction. One of the bottled water companies, pump, sponsored a water slide to be built but not just any water slide… an awesome one. It was 32feet long, I think, down a hill and went into a big splash pool. It was really good fun and the village crew got to test it, so we all tried all the different positions we could think of… most of them hurt quite a lot.
So to the actual event, Parachute festival. Lots of bands were there like third day and other people like that, which was cool but kind of only highlighted to me that the general church youth only know how to “worship” to loud music and un theological words… I made me sad to watch some of the bands and how they communicated with the crowd. Parachute also had some speakers who I can’t give much more praise to because they did not really open the bible at all.
As much as all this stuff seems to be all bad I decided parachute was awesome not for the on stage stuff or even the water slide but for the meeting Christians aspect of it. I got to meet all the people who were on camp the two weeks previous and a chance to meet with new people and talk about anything and everything. It was so awesome to be able to share and listen to others about issues for a young Christian.
So overall parachute for me was about people not the “important people” up front who got the crowd to cheer but the people who are on genuine walks with God and willing to discuss there faith and what they believe.

Sorry it has been such a long time since I last posted but I have been ridiculously busy recently and unfortunately that is affecting my communication with you guys back home.

Bless Ya
Andrew