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SUNDAY . 5th. SEPTEMBER 2010: PENTECOST 15
THE LAST WORD
Yes, the holiday was good; we travelled some 1200 miles, taking the caravan as far as Bedale, Yorkshire, before returning via the Greenbelt Festival at
Cheltenham over the Bank Holiday weekend.
I must persuade more people from the Parish to go to Greenbelt. It is described as a Christian music and arts festival, and gathers some
20,000 people each summer. There is music in a variety of styles, talks (also varied), some visual arts, and seminars on youth work, technology etc.
The atmosphere is friendly, relaxed, and helpful. The age range is 0 – quite a lot, with wheelchair users and special needs groups catered for.
For the third year, I volunteered as a taxi driver, with the golf buggy transport around the large site. Two three hour shifts a day secured free entry to the weekend, and some meal vouchers for the many and varied food outlets around the racecourse. The team were friendly and fun, and there
was still time to go, listen and see.
I know several people from Sketty have been, or were there this year, but I wonder
if in 2011 we should take a group. If we camped together, there wouldbe a base (and
perhaps some co-
joining in the music. Those who wanted to avoid the cost would find plenty of openings for volunteers. Talk to me about it!
This year’s highlights? Probably Stanley Hauerwas on how he became a theologian (“a theologian should not try to have a position, but to help the Church know what it has been given”), and Reg Bailey on the Mothers’ Union “Bye Buy Childhood” (see the website www.byebuychildhood.org soon), and the Folk Club, and . . .
Andrew Knight
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