 4 days of Kingdom Bound 2010 (www.kingdombound.org)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 1st
-4pm... arrive at Darien Lake Theme Park in Darien Center, NY; pull into the campgrounds and set-up our tent
-6pm… listen to TOMMY REID’S welcome at the park’s Performing Arts Center
-6:50pm… wow, is that RICK CUA, Christian rock star from the 1980s, playing with “BLUES COUNSEL?” It is! These seasoned musicians are jammin’!
-7:30pm…all the way from Great Britain it’s MATT REDMAN leading us in worship. He wrote a lot of songs we sing at church on Sundays.
-8:10pm…it’s time for communion. It is Sunday, after all, and this is one of the biggest gatherings of Christians I’ve ever seen. Thank you Lord for this day.
-8:15pm…BOB LENZ speaks, and reminds us not our way but “Yahweh!”
-9:30pm…hey, don’t the NEWSBOYS usually close out Kingdom Bound? This year they’re the Sunday night headliner, and look who is the lead singer these days—it’s Michael Tait, who I remember from dc Talk!
-11:30pm…some of our friends went home, but we’re staying on-grounds, so we make our way over to the kids’ tent for a late-night get together hosted by MARK WEBER. Will we see a movie, a comedian, or sing karaoke together? It’s a surprise.
-12:45am…time to go to sleep, but not before we have a campfire complete with s’mores.
MONDAY, AUGUST 2nd
-11am… after a donut in the FLN tent, we make our way over to the Park Stage for music and morning devotions from RELEVANT WORSHIP, the band with the lead singer with the big hair we always see at Kingdom Bound.
-12pm…LAURA PETHERBRIDGE is giving a seminar on “Thriving in a step-family.” We attend to learn about strengthening our marriage and helping our kids adjust to being in a blended family.
-1pm… time for lunch and then we wait in line for the Ride of Steel roller coaster and the ride is awesome!
-1:45pm…just a little late, we catch some of speaker BRETT ULLMAN’S seminar on “Media.Faith.Culture.” He talks about cutting, suicide, drugs, sex and other topics young people deal with in our culture today, and shares how we can respond to this culture as Christians.
-3pm… look, it’s KEVIN LEMAN, the guy who wrote the “Birth Order Book.” He’s in the Worship Tent talking about family dynamics and relationships. Didn’t I just see him on Good Morning America?
-3:30pm…we get a text from our son, who lets us know he’s over at MARK SCHNITZER’S talk on “Homosexuality and the Church,” and learning how to respond to his high school buddy’s decision to come out of the closet. We’ll have to discuss that later.
-4:30pm… we head over to the one stage to see Toronto rockers MANIC DRIVE while our friends go to the other stage to see Celtic group CEILI RAIN.
-5:30pm… last year we saw two hip-hop artists we liked a lot—she’s named MAHOGANY and he’s named DRE MARSHALL and they’re back and the beats are bangin’!
-6:30pm… we got a good seat at the Performing Arts Center for our favorite band, NEWWORLDSON, and we’re staying put for BARLOWGIRL and  the band who did that “I Could Only Imagine” song, MERCYME, the big headliner of the night.
-7pm…we get a text from our friends; they’re over in the kids’ tent with their 5 and 7-year-olds, and guess who’s back at the festival this year? None other than Bibleman!
-11pm… wow, we had a busy day. We see some friends and end up joining them for a piece of cake and end up praying together at their campfire on a beautiful star-filled summer night. |
