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		<title>Random Hero Says Nice Stuff About Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the amazing bands we&#8217;ve got on main stage this year put out a press release a couple of weeks ago that said a bunch of really nice stuff! We are super excited to have Random Hero back on our stage. Last year&#8217;s performance was awesome and we can&#8217;t wait to rock out with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.agapefest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/l_622bbfe83fcf48288aa38b64c27a2db6.jpg" rel="lightbox[1219]"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1220" style="margin: 5px;" title="Random Hero" src="http://www.agapefest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/l_622bbfe83fcf48288aa38b64c27a2db6-120x120.jpg" alt="Random Hero will be on mainstage at af2010" width="120" height="120" /></a>One of the amazing bands we&#8217;ve got on main stage this year put out a <a title="Thanks, Random Hero." href="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendId=83009848&amp;blogId=525137792" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view_amp_friendId=83009848_amp_blogId=525137792&amp;referer=');">press release</a> a couple of weeks ago that said a bunch of really nice stuff! We are super excited to have Random Hero back on our stage. Last year&#8217;s performance was awesome and we can&#8217;t wait to rock out with the guys again this year.</p>
<p>Make sure you head over to their <a title="Random Hero on MySpace" href="http://www.myspace.com/bandrandomhero" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.myspace.com/bandrandomhero?referer=');">MySpace</a> and take a listen. Leave them a note about how excited you are to see them at AgapeFest 2010!</p>
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		<title>Dear Vendors -</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a last call for any and all vendors wanting to be at AgapeFest 2009. We still have a few spots open for vendors for this year. If you&#8217;re interested, fill out our application and fax it to us as soon as possible. Get all of the details on the Vendors Information page.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a last call for any and all vendors wanting to be at AgapeFest 2009.</p>
<p>We still have a few spots open for vendors for this year. If you&#8217;re interested, fill out our application and fax it to us as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Get all of the details on the <a href="http://www.agapefest.com/info/vendors/">Vendors Information</a> page.</p>
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		<title>Lots of News!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phew. It&#8217;s been a busy last couple of weeks here at AgapeFest HQ. We&#8217;ve got tons and tons of news for you today, but first I want to thank everyone for your comments! It&#8217;s been awesome to see the lists you&#8217;ve been leaving. We&#8217;ve taken a lot of what you&#8217;ve said to heart and booked [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phew. It&#8217;s been a busy last couple of weeks here at AgapeFest HQ. We&#8217;ve got tons and tons of news for you today, but first I want to thank everyone for your comments! It&#8217;s been awesome to see the lists you&#8217;ve been leaving. We&#8217;ve taken a lot of what you&#8217;ve said to heart and booked as many bands as possible. Since we&#8217;re such a short festival, it&#8217;s tough to get EVERY band you want, but I think we&#8217;ve got an awesome mix this year.</p>
<p>So. The news. Would you like to see who&#8217;s playing this year? Because the lineup is <em>almost</em> done. Hit the jump to find out who will be on Main Stage at AgapeFest 2009! <span id="more-241"></span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the list. We&#8217;ll have the time slots and such up on the <a title="Bands!" href="http://www.agapefest.com/bands">Bands</a> page soon! Here you go:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Mark Roach, Everyday Sunday, Decyfer Down, Disciple, The Great Romance, Photoside Café, Fundamental Elements, Brooke Barrettsmith, Wavorly, Eleventyseven, Remedy Drive, LeCrae, The Afters, Hawk Nelson, Skillet, and tobyMac.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah! Okay. So we&#8217;re not finished yet with the lineup&#8211;we&#8217;ve got a few spots left to fill&#8211;but that should give you a feel for who you can see at AF09.</p>
<p>Also. An announcement about our annual Battle of the Bands will be going out soon.</p>
<p>Finally. <strong>TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!</strong> For real. With special Early Bird pricing. Clicke <a title="iTickets.com" href="http://www.itickets.com/events/212355/Greenville_IL/Agape_Fest_09.html" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.itickets.com/events/212355/Greenville_IL/Agape_Fest_09.html?referer=');">here to order</a> at iTickets.com</p>
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		<title>First Headliner Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guys. We&#8217;ve done it. We have confirmed the headliner for Saturday night. Can you guess who it is? Okay. I&#8217;ll tell you. tobyMac will be joining us this year as our Saturday headliner. Some of you will remember that Toby had a conflict last year and wasn&#8217;t able to perform, substituting Relient K as a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_221" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 190px"><a href="http://www.agapefest.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/agape05_539.jpg" rel="lightbox[220]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-221" title="Toby Mac at AgapeFest 2005" src="http://www.agapefest.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/agape05_539-300x200.jpg" alt="tobyMac at AgapeFest 2005" width="180" height="120" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">tobyMac at AgapeFest 2005</p></div>
<p>Guys. We&#8217;ve done it. We have <strong>confirmed the headliner for Saturday night</strong>.</p>
<p>Can you guess who it is?</p>
<p>Okay. I&#8217;ll tell you. <strong>tobyMac</strong> will be joining us this year as our Saturday headliner. Some of you will remember that Toby had a conflict last year and wasn&#8217;t able to perform, substituting Relient K as a headliner.</p>
<p>More artist announcements are coming. Watch this space for more info or subscribe to our <a title="Syndicate!" href="http://www.agapefest.com/feed/">feed</a> to make sure you&#8217;re always up to date. If you&#8217;re not into the feed thing, follow us on <a title="AgapeFest on Twitter!" href="http://www.twitter.com/agapefest" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.twitter.com/agapefest?referer=');">Twitter</a>. We&#8217;ll post all of our news there as well.</p>
<p><strong>More Stuff</strong><br />
Check out <a title="tobyMac.com" href="http://tobymac.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/tobymac.com/?referer=');">tobyMac.com</a></p>
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		<title>Behind the Scenes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys. I&#8217;ve been working hard on some new features here at AgapeFest.com. One of the biggest ones is something you&#8217;ll see in the left sidebar. We&#8217;re calling it &#8220;Behind the Scenes.&#8221; Over the course of this festival year, you&#8217;ll see posts by our staff and cabinet giving you a look into what we do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys. I&#8217;ve been working hard on some new features here at AgapeFest.com. One of the biggest ones is something you&#8217;ll see in the left sidebar. We&#8217;re calling it &#8220;<a href="http://www.agapefest.com/categories/behind-the-scenes">Behind the Scenes</a>.&#8221; Over the course of this festival year, you&#8217;ll see posts by our staff and cabinet giving you a look into what we do here at AgapeFest HQ to get this festival ready for you.</p>
<p>Take a gander and leave some comments. We&#8217;re in the process of getting the lineup together, so if you have recommendations, let us know! </p>
<p>And. I must say this. To keep up with the latest news (including behind-the-scenes), click that green &#8220;subscribe&#8221; button at the bottom of the page. You can hook up to our RSS feed and stay on top of all of the info about to flood this site.</p>
<p>P.S. Early bird tickets will be on sale soon&#8230; stay tuned.</p>
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		<title>In the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone. We just got a write-up in the State Journal-Register&#8217;s Heartland magazine. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what it&#8217;s like to be on our side of the festival, this article is a pretty good representation. During the weekend, 200 of the college’s 1,300 students worked at the festival, but that’s merely the culmination of a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey everyone. We just got a write-up in the State Journal-Register&#8217;s <em>Heartland</em> magazine. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what it&#8217;s like to be on our side of the festival, this article is a pretty good representation.<span id="more-88"></span></p>
<blockquote><p><em>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.</em></p>
<p><em>AgapeFest is more than student-led: It’s student-invested.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Read the whole story <a title="State Journal-Register" href="http://www.sj-r.com/heartland/x356879482/At-AgapeFest-students-learn-about-the-music-business-while-sharing-their-faith" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.sj-r.com/heartland/x356879482/At-AgapeFest-students-learn-about-the-music-business-while-sharing-their-faith?referer=');">here</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Going Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 17:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainstage is going up RIGHT NOW.  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! ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mainstage is going up RIGHT NOW.<br />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/agapefest/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flickr.com/groups/agapefest/?referer=');"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/2457533780_00ca05bc94.jpg?v=0" alt="AgapeFest Setup" /></a> More photos on our <a title="AgapeFest on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/agapefest/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flickr.com/groups/agapefest/?referer=');">flickr group</a>. Join up and post your AgapeFest photos too!</p>
<p><strong>Everyone. This is a call to arms. Please pray as hard as you can that God will push the rain somewhere else!</strong> </p>
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		<title>Answers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the questions. Here are your answers: Andrew, Brooke: DON’T FORGET RAINGEAR!!! The forecast isn’t looking too sunny! Yeah, good point. We&#8217;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! [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the questions. Here are your answers:<br />
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<strong>Andrew, Brooke:</strong><em> </em><em>DON’T FORGET RAINGEAR!!! The forecast isn’t looking too sunny!</em></p>
<p>Yeah, good point. We&#8217;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!</p>
<p><strong>Jeff:</strong> <em>So, how much are the agapefest tee’s goona cost? How much are the hoodies?</em></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve got AgapeFest tees in black and red for $15 at the festival. We even have girly shirts, so you girls won&#8217;t have to wear a baggy old shirt if you don&#8217;t want to! We&#8217;ve got black zip hoodies that&#8217;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.</p>
<p><strong>Andrew: </strong><em>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.</em></p>
<p>Thanks for this, I&#8217;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&#8217;s on your hands!</p>
<p><strong>Courtney:</strong> <em>What time do each of the concerts start?</em></p>
<p>Sorry for how long this one took. I&#8217;m putting it up as you read this. So check over on the <a title="Main Stage Schedule!" href="http://www.agapefest.com/bands/">Bands</a> page for a full schedule.</p>
<p>If you have any more questions before the festival, go ahead and leave them in the comments and I&#8217;ll try and get them answered for you. <strong>2 days left</strong>! We&#8217;re so excited to see everyone again!</p>
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