During the weekend, 200 of the college’s 1,300 students worked at the festival, but that’s merely the culmination of a nearly year-round process. Students negotiated contracts with bands, like headliner Relient K, lined up vendors and caterers and launched public-relations blitzes.

AgapeFest is more than student-led: It’s student-invested.

Read the whole story here.

A big thanks to Steven Spearie for spending so much time with us to figure out this article. He was great and put a lot of hard work into this story. 

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There are some changes in store for agapefest.com in the coming months. One of the ones you can participate in right now is sending photos from AgapeFest 2008 to our Flickr group. Follow this link and submit your photos. If you don’t have a flickr account, it’s super-cool, fast, easy and free. When you join the AgapeFest group on flickr you can share your memories with all of us. And we’re already posting our own photos.

Thank you again for coming out. Thanks to the bands for stopping in (Relient K, David Crowder Band and Hawk Nelson were phenomenal). Thanks to the Battle of the Bands participants. And thank you so much to our Lord and Savior for keeping the rain away and encouraging us through this festival.

We hope to see you again in 2009 - and hopefully throughout the year here at agapefest.com!

Link:
AgapeFest on Flickr

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Thank you Lord Jesus for providing this shelter! We thank you for your amazing love for us and that you are keeping us safe in the middle of these storms. We pray for the safety of everyone traveling in this weather to hear your Word and to praise the God who is ever-loving and never-failing.

Amen.

See you all soon!

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Visit us on our Flickr group to see more photos.

Answers:
April: Can I bring my dog if I clean up after her?

We’d love to play with your dog (well, those of us who are dog people), but some people don’t want to. Plus we can’t regulate who’s dogs are healthy and who’s aren’t. It’s just a mess. So we’d rather you don’t. Sorry!

Jason: If it rains alot will the show be canceled?

Nope. Rain or shine. If it gets real bad a band might have to cut their set short. But that doesn’t happen very often. It’s just one the risks we end up taking with an outdoor festival. It’s all part of the “fun”!

Seriously though, check out the photos I’m posting on that flickr group. Then join and add your own!

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 More photos on our flickr group. Join up and post your AgapeFest photos too!

Everyone. This is a call to arms. Please pray as hard as you can that God will push the rain somewhere else! 

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Yeah, good point. We’re looking at having a bit of rain on Friday, but hopefully more in the morning than afternoon. It will be chilly on Saturday! Bring a hoodie, or buy one @ the festival! Also, PRAY that the weather will be awesome. We need all the prayer help we can get on that front for sure!

Jeff: So, how much are the agapefest tee’s goona cost? How much are the hoodies?

We’ve got AgapeFest tees in black and red for $15 at the festival. We even have girly shirts, so you girls won’t have to wear a baggy old shirt if you don’t want to! We’ve got black zip hoodies that’ll be $30 and sweatshirt blankets for $30 (these are super-cool, I have one and it rocks). We also have AgapeFest frisbees for $5.

Andrew: This year, will we have extra water on-hand for the handwashing stations? If not, I would suggest that everyone brings a little bottle of hand sanitizer. Those handwashing stations run out fast.

Thanks for this, I’ll forward it on to the director of Festival Services and see what we can do. It might be a good idea to bring some hand sanitizer anyway.  You never know what’s on your hands!

Courtney: What time do each of the concerts start?

Sorry for how long this one took. I’m putting it up as you read this. So check over on the Bands page for a full schedule.

If you have any more questions before the festival, go ahead and leave them in the comments and I’ll try and get them answered for you. 2 days left! We’re so excited to see everyone again!

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Camping:  You don’t need to reserve a site. It’s first come, first served. So get here early and get a good spot. Bring a tent, sleeping bag, camper - but NO FIRES OR STOVES. It’s not us; we’d love to have a barbecue with you. But state and county laws won’t let us have any kind of fire on the grounds. That means we can’t allow campfires, open flames, camping stoves, etc. Sorry guys. Don’t bring them and we won’t have to stop you from using them. Easy enough right?

Parking: It’s free. If you bought a ticket, you get parking.

Music: We start kickin’ out the jams at 5:00pm on Stage 2 with the Battle of the Bands. Main Stage music will be done around 11:00pm (that’s David Crowder*Band) and then Coffee House takes over in the Stage 2 building. Jo’s Java (our local bean juice shop) will be servin’ up caffeine.

Saturday morning the music will start around 11:00. So sleep in! Or get up and have some group worship with your friends and neighbors. Guitars are welcomed and encouraged! The festivities will wrap up around 11:00pm.

Showers: Nope, sorry guys.

Food: We’ve got loads of food vendors coming out. Pizza, corn dogs, funnel cakes, orange shakeups (the director’s favorite) and almost anything else you can think of. So pack some spare change.

Swag: We’ve got a limited run of special AgapeFest 2008 t-shirts, hoodies and blankets that’ll be available in the Vendors Pavilion along with merch from all of the great bands playing the festival. Plan accordingly!

Got questions? Ask in the comments and I’ll put together another one of these FAQ posts.

Only 3.5 days until AgapeFest 2008!

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We’re sorry for the late notice, but some things can’t be avoided. RED and Tenth Avenue North just couldn’t work out their scheduling to make it to the festival. We learned about their conflicts last week and have worked hard to secure these two amazing bands to fill those slots.

As a special treat, this year’s late night Coffeehouse will feature Addison Road. We’re excited to have these three amazing artists at AgapeFest this year. Go to their websites and message boards and thank them for coming!

We are exactly 14 days away from festival weekend. That’s only two weeks. Get your tickets if you haven’t yet! This year is going to be AWESOME.

Links
Phil Wickham
Spoken
Addison Road
Updated Main Stage Lineup
Updated Stage 2 Lineup w/Coffeehouse

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And the winners are:

1. Farebridge Fairbridge (sorry about that misspelling!)
2. Hot Fever
3. Dressed to Kill
4. On Loan
5. Mark David and Surface Deep

Congratulations to our top five winners! It was a tough call with so many great bands playing. These five will battle it out against each other one last time on Stage 2 at AgapeFest 2008. The second round of our Battle of the bands will start at 5:00pm on Friday. Make sure you get a chance to catch these awesome bands.

And while you’re cruisin’ the web, make sure you check out their music online! Click a band’s name above to visit their website or MySpace. (more to come as I get their links)

Only 19 days left until the festival!!!

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