Thursday, 8 May 2014

Parachute music festival

This is a long overdue post...



Each year, we always look forward to the Parachute music festival held at Mystery Creek, Hamilton. I think this must be my 7/8th festival that I've been to and over the years it has given me a lot of insights, encouragement and not to mention the fun we have over the weekend. 

This year was not only significant because it was Annabel's first one but also because it's the last Parachute Music Festival. We found out early this year that it wasn't viable for the festival to continue due to increasing costs and yet the ticket prices remained pretty much the same. We were all very sad about the news.

So looking back at this years festival, we were blessed to have Stan Walker there. He was one of my highlights as I've never seen him perform (except on NZ X Factor) but also his testimony was amazing. It really touched me on how he was abused, had a rough life with drugs, stealing and dealing with a miscarriage, he asked God to fix his brokenness, built a strong relationship with God and became who he is now.

MC Jin was another person we saw who had such humility in what he does. We saw him in the Village area with his crew and instead of them serving him, he served them but ordering and buying drinks for them. We also had a photo op with him and as I was taking the photo with him, my husband and little one, he also said "let's take another one, we can't leave out mum". Not to mention that it was raining at the time too.


So here's to Parachute Music - I pray that God will continue to use them to help influence people through music and the work that they do!



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