The Kidnapping of the Band

As I've said previously, Easter is about God and what he did for us, his love for us and how he wants to set us free. If you live here in good ol' NZ, Easter is also about Easter Camp. Four days of insanity, good times, crazy young people, rock solid music, lots of hard core moshing, sleeping in tents, tiredness, the groove tent, coffee, hot chips, wedges, good chats, the holy spirit, awesome speakers, singstar and dance offs.

But this year, we took it up a notch. We wanted our tent pimped this year and we told ourselves we'd get Adge where it hurts. Everyone who goes to camp knows who Satellite is. (How could you not???) They rock hardcore. They're and awesome bunch of people and play some fantastic music.

This year...we kidnapped the band!!! (And we have the pictures to prove it!!!!!)


<----- Here we have Dan, the illustrious drummer of the band, looking suitably terrified of the big, bad man who's holding him captive. MUWAHAHAHA.

Oh look, if it isn't ---->
Mel (far left), Ali (middle) and Joe (right) being held hostage!!!! (Gotta love the startled look on Ali's face...)Teehee. As we all know a good band can't survive without it's lead singer, bass player and guitarist/singer!



But just to be on the safe side:


<----- We got Mark too!!! Muwhahaha! How ev-al are we???? Taking not one but TWO guitarists!!!! For those who don't know, Mark's a suitably impressive guitarist, with mad rock-star skills and crazy mosh-worthy hair. Oh yeah...!!!!!

To be honest, we got a little power crazy. It wasn't enough to kidnap and hold the majority of the band to ransom. We wanted more. We wanted the big man himself. That's right people.....

WE WANTED PAUL!!!!! (And we always like to get what we want....)


That's right, we got Paul "frontman of the band" himself. It wasn't easy! He's like over 6 feet tall and well, we're not. But we grabbed him out of the World Vision tent, tackled him to the ground and managed to gaffer tape him to a chair. YES.

All of which proves that we - collectively - are the MAN. Haha. In the space of about three hours we managed to abscond with (almost) the entire band. We were missing Simon and Kat, but we got the majority of them.

We didn't get our tent pimped. (Strange as we were convinced Adge would be concerned for Ali's well-being...) But we sure as heck had fun trying. Teehee.

(Thanks to the band for letting us gaffer them up and take ridiculous photos by the way - they're such good sports!)

But stupid photos, extreme tiredness and silly behaviour aside...Easter was awesome. We had 64 in total with us and there were 3000 people at camp. It was Luke and Adge's first time running camp and they did fantastically. The speakers were top notch (Neville Street! Neville Street!!!), and the band - as always - pulled out all the stops and just rocked our world.

8 of our young people made commitments, which was awesome!!!! There was an amazing sense of community and there was this feeling that God was really moving. In fact, I know he was moving. It was amazing.

Oh....AND we got top 8 in the volleyball competition. Which just goes to show you - if your spoon is too big, you can do anything!!!