Noosafest

This Friday was FUN!! I think oneof the funnest days so far.

We kicked it off with intercession, which actually was quite intense and a time for looking inwards at what God wanted us to repent of... but what amazing freedom when you realise where you have been going wrong and that in the next moment you understand that God has already forgiven you. Incredible.

After that we headed to a beach called Mudjemba, where the YWAM base from the Gold Coast had come up to cook us a BBQ lunch just to bless us! How sweet. It was a beautiful day, bright blue skies and clear water (at last, yay!!). We chilled out on the beach, had lunch and then went in the waves. It was so much fun swimming through these huge waves, once I got past the whitewash anyway!! I managed to get quite far out but there were a few guys from the DTS out there too, so I always felt quite safe.

After that a few of us piled into a van and headed up north to a place called Noosa. It was big for surfing in the 60's and is still a popular site with good waves. This weekend it was hosting Noosafest, a surf comp/festival which included the Australian premiere of Walking On Water, a surf movie made by Bryan Jennings, an ex-pro who has a vision to impact the surfing community worldwide with the Gospel. There was music and a bit of testimony and then the film, which was really cool. Basically Bryan had been taken to Hawaii when he was a kid, by an older surfer he really looked up to, who had mentored him in surfing and life, sharing his faith with the boy. And this film was documenting Bryan's turn to do this for the next generation. He took 2 young surfers (11/12 yrs) from California to surf with Christian professionals in Peru, France, Australia, South Africa and Indonesia. There were various points when bits of the gospel were shared, but the most powerful was a group of township kids who surfed with them in Mossel Bay, just outside Cape Town, South Africa. They literally had nothing but were sitting on film declaring that God was the one who looked after them, and showing such a spirit of exuberance and love for life, despite their situation. All attributed to the hope they find in Jesus.

Awesome!!