Festival Heaps Fun Before Students Head Back to School
Students heading back to school are ending their summers with the annual LifeLight Festival.
Students heading back to school are ending their summers with the eighth annual LifeLight Festival.
Over one hundred artists and speakers will be at four-day festival in Sioux Falls, S.D., including Bethany Dillon, Caedmon's Call, Crimson, Jeremy Camp, Newsboys, Point of Grace, Sanctus Real, Third Day, and Thousand Foot Krutch. The music, camping, and amusement park festival started yesterday and end on Sunday.
Though LifeLight began its ministry in 1998 with the first festival held on a church lawn, the festival later moved to the W.H. Lyons Fairgrounds, and in 2003, drew more than 100,000 people to the three-day event.
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Through the city-wide worship service that crosses denominational and doctrinal lines, the LifeLight Festival draws many area churches together to participate and worship as one body of believers.
The event features six stages, each with its own purpose and focus, including LifeLight Stage, Souled Out Stage, Southern Gospel Stage, FireHouse Stage, Children's Stage, Seminars Stage, and the Unplugged Stage.
LifeLight's 21 seminars, which begin today cover topics including fatherhood, missions, prayer, an abortion testimony, work-at-home moms, religion and politics, evangelism, marriage savers, media and Hollywood, Internet dangers, worship, reaching the campus, and God's purpose. The Alpha Center's panel of advisors will discuss abortion, post abortion issues, crisis pregnancy issues, dating and abstinence until marriage.
Guests also have the option of attending a skate park, the art gallery, the coffee shop or the near-by amusement park.
This year, appearances will be made by evangelist Luis Palau, who has shared his message with hundreds of millions through his worldwide ministry following the tradition of Billy Graham, and pastor and evangelist Mike MacIntosh.
