Page 8 - Contact Autumn 2015

After a long wait of excitement to In the Beatitudes Jesus is praising make new friends, have fun and certain values and attitudes and learn about our God, Summer telling us if you have these values Madness 2015 had fnally arrived; and attitudes you will be close to God; you will be blessed. along with the dread of using multiple port-a-loos and sleeping By knowing what the heart of God in a tent. is like, the Beatitudes invite us to imitate the heart of God. God I made my way up to the festival became man in Christ so that we with Sophie and Lauren, the car would become more like Him. flled to the brim with unnecessary The Beatitudes teach us how to clothing and everything you need to become more like God; how to survive fve nights in a tent (which refect the goodness and beauty proved very difcult in a Mini). and truth in the heart of God. We arrived and the whole site was buzzing and ready to get the week All in all, everyone had a blast and started! we all got much closer and got to know everyone really well! Along The weather was awful the whole with great food and great friends, time but it didn’t afect us at all, it was a very successful weekend apart from the lack of sleep due to and I look forward to next year pelting rain on the tent. very much! There were many diferent Katie Moles seminars throughout each day that you could attend which were on a range of topics and appealed to “The Beatitudes everyone. The talks were based on the beatitudes found in Matthew teach us how to 5:1-10. They challenged each of us and I’m sure everyone would agree become more like in saying that we all learnt a lot God” from them!