Last Weekend

Last Saturday, Micah and I went hiking in the Prosiecka Dolina.


Micah is really the one who likes hiking. I just like to take pictures. We have a good deal, I go hiking with him and try not to complain and he waits while i take pictures and tries not to complain.


The particular trail we took was written up in a photocopied flier that we got from the info center. It rated the trail as good for older people or children...


So micah wore his new sandals, because if older people could do it, he could do it in sandals.

we want to know who rates hiking trails in Slovakia? We can not imagine our grandmothers doing this.


the trail did end at a pretty neat water fall


I took over 100 photos and Micah climbed a tree.

do you think I will get in trouble for posting this one?

More about CampFest!

How do you capture something like CampFest? 11 days full of preparation, thousands of people, loud music, challenging speakers, and lots of fun.

On August 1st over 120 volunteers arrived to set up tents and other equipment. On the 7th the rest of the atendees started to arrive.

The Festival kicked off that evening and nothing was quiet or still until well past 2am on Sunday morning!


Including the performers and volunteers there were over 4,650 people! The field behind the ranch was turned into a tent city full of people, tents,

water towers, and as many porta pots as i have ever seen in one place.

CampFest is more than great bands from Slovakia,

and all over the world,

the young people who came heard the gospel message clearly presented. There were over 100 trained spiritual counselors who had around 350 discussions with festival participants.

Of those over 200 prayed to confess sins and receive deliverance from addictions and occultism in their lives. We can also celebrate the 40 young people who prayed to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior!!

Can I share just two of the testimonies that we have already received.

I came back yesterday from CampFest. I would like to thank you for great atmosphere and say that it was my first time at the festival but not the last time. I was fullfiled by the strength from above which I was missing. Seminars, concerts, worship- all that was awesome and I took something from it all. I hope that CampFest will be organized also the next year. And if God wants and we will be still here, I will come with my friends again.
Peto

I came to the festival for the third time as performer. I am always amazed by great tents with good construction, technics of good quality, cameras, all the performers...

Most of them are real servants of God and do not pretend to be stars.
Behind this work there has to be people with purpose. And this purpose is not just to satisfy the youth with good music or give them the best. For the leaders the most important things are the hearts of those young people. They want to see them growing, be on fire for Jesus and coming back to their churches renewed.

It is not important there whether you are from apostolic church, lutheran, brethren or catholic...What is important is your faith in Jesus Christ and it has united many of them.
Gina

The big tent

The main Stage at CampFest is in a tent called the Hangar. It is a very impressive structure. When YFC realized that we would need a tent that could hold over 4,000 people, Milos, the director of the ranch, custom designed it.


After CampFest last year they left the skeleton of the tent standing.


So setup this year was much easier than last year. This year all we had to do was to put the skins on. The first four Panels are covered on the inside with black plastic to keep the light from coming in on the stage and the projection screens. They are laying in the plastic here to keep it form blowing away.


Even though we didn't have to set up the frame it is still a lot of work to get the canvas up onto the tent. People have to climb up very the structure and pull from the top as well as having a rope over the top with people pulling on the other side to get the canvas up to the top. Just to cover the tent took almost two full days


Of course after the festival is over, the whole thing has to come back down. This year we took down the frame as well as the cover. Thanks to Gravity, the tent comes down a lot quicker than it goes up. But it still took over a full day to get it all finished.


It is a lot of hard work but in the end when the tent is full of young people listening to christian bands and speakers, I think all the work is worth it.

Photos from CampFest

Here's a link to the Full Set of CampFest Photos. There are more of setting up and tearing down than of the bands and concerts this time. I was responsible for different things this year than in 2006.

we are pulling ourselves out of the mud here. :) Actually it only rained most of Saturday and the sun has shone ever since. I Figure that the rain stopped around the time people in the States were waking up and thinking of us.
I took over a thousand pictures at CampFest, mostly of setup and tear down. I spent today uploading the good ones to Flickr and tomorrow i'll blog with pictures and more detials.

thank you for praying!

CampFest!

it is raining.
Please pray that it will stop.
Please pray that we will be encouraged.
Please pray that the issues with the electricity will resolve.

Thank you for praying. Things are not dire here. God is moving, I just wanted to give you a quick update on how you can pray.