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MennoFest and "Invisible Children"
May 01, 2006, 08:30 PM | Permalink
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Some young adults in our church are planning the 2nd annual "Menno-Fest," an outdoor music festival to be held in June 2006.  Sound a bit like the 60's?  Well, it is  - but only in some ways.  But there's no alcohol, drugs, sex, and free-love.  The Christian punk and rock bands grind away and the kids worship part of the time and just enjoy the scene.  The decibel level and genre of music doesn't exactly appeal to me, but the youth who are planning this event sure do. 

They want to use MennoFest to increase our local community's awareness of the horrible abuse made to child soldiers and victims of social decay in northern Uganda.  The "invisible children" project nspired them and frankly, I hope it takes off for them.

These young people hunger for righteousness and justice in the world and their passion is a refreshing challenge to the churches in North America to practice what they are preaching.   Young people don't want to hear about "prosperity" gospels or how Jesus is going to bring them the "power" and "riches."  They're suspicious of these things and I tip my hat to them for it.

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