Fantastic! Amazing! Awesome! Can't Stop Talking About It!

 

 

Painting miles of fences, picking up litter or gardening may not be the typical activity that you would expect a young person to be doing during their summer holiday. However, this does mean that about 50 young people from our area are most definitely not normal!

 

The Royal Norfolk Showground was quite simply a sea of canvas as 7000 young people from across the country came together for the New Frontiers annual event; Newday. They spent the week of 1^st – 7^th August involved in a variety of different activities, from hearing teaching seminars to being involved in worship events, from dodgem cars to climbing walls and from candy floss to late night gigs.

 

It would be easy to have driven past the show ground and to have seen the biggest Big Top known to man and to have thought “There is just one big party going on in there” and at times you would have been right, with 7000 young people getting excited about God there was one amazing party. The truth, however, went so much deeper. Yes young people had a good time but equally their lives were really impacted by what they learnt God had done for them and the difference He wants to make in their lives. It went further though, with this knowledge of God becoming a passion for Him and then becoming a desire to go out and make a difference in the world. This is where the fence painting and litter picking came in. It wasn’t just about cleaning up an area - it was about telling people that God loved them and wanted to make a difference in their lives, too.

 

Unite Youth Project and Kings Church in Great Yarmouth worked in partnership to provide a base for local young people to camp and to be fed and watered.

 

“Matt Gooch, Director of Unite said “It was such a privilege to be able to serve young people in this way. It was hard work and the lack of sleep didn't help, but the fruit from the week is going to be seen in these young people for the rest of their lives. Once again, we were only able to provide for these young people in the way that we did, because of faithful local people who were prepared to give up so much time to make the week such a success. So thank you all.

 

Unite and Kings have already started to plan for Newday 2010, with the belief that many more people will have realised what they missed this year and will want to come along.

 

For those of you who went along, why not write a comment here letting the rest of us know what you thought of it.