The Party is Over!
In my last post I wrote about the 50th anniversary celebration of YWAM and how it was fast approaching. It seems that as fast as it came, it has now gone, and we are all now recovering from the craziness that was the 50th.
Don’t get me wrong, it was an incredible time. The very first night we looked back on the mission and all that God has done through the obedience of the pioneers who have gone before us. The theme the entire year was “The Flame Goes Forward.” Rather then spend all of our time looking back, we wanted to look ahead and say, “Okay Lord, what do the next 50 years look like?” Throughout the week we had teaching and opportunity to connect and celebrate all that God has done.
I also helped run a film festival.
Yep, complete with discussions and Q and A’s with the filmmakers. We held it in our brand new theater which by the grace of God we were able to complete before the event kicked off. It was a lot of fun to watch films in our venue, on our campus. I came home one night and told Amanda, “I like running my own film festival!” We had a wide array of films being shown, from documentaries and shorts, to full-length features. Our main emphasis was celebrating all that God has done through arts and entertainment with the involvement of YWAMers. We had quite a few regulars attending each screening, and all in all it was a blast.
I also built a volleyball court.
That one was a last-minute curveball, but after we cleared the land behind the theater, a few of the leaders thought, hey let’s use that pile of sand that was meant for a volleyball court to make a volleyball court. I was in charge of ordering the other supplies we needed and making sure it actually got used. I was thrilled to walk out of the theater and see a bunch of people playing beach volleyball. Random? Absolutely.
And this was all on my little corner of the 50th, and that’s one of the things that I loved about this event. All across the campus, people were connecting, reminiscing and being challenged. I’m glad that I got to take part in a very unique way.
Check out the pictures of the theater and volleyball court below.
