May 2nd-May 5th 2008 will be dates that stay in my mind for a very long-time. IgniteHope, which has dominated much of our lives in the last few months, actually happened.

The 1,200 seater marquee was erected the previous week. 29 strong men + me spent nearly 10 hours wrestling with this beast before we got it in the air! The hardest days work I have ever done in my life!

The months of planning all became worth it as 430 young people registered and joined on the journey to make a lasting change in Jesus name to South Wales. In addition we had almost 800 people in the marquee every night to take part in amazing worship, listen to the Gospel being preached and enjoying some great bands

The project was successful in no small part due to the commitment of some great volunteers including John Lewis (pictured here with the local police)
Nathan Davies, Ben Franks, Ruth Samways and Mike Thomas.

Each day the 430 young people left the site in Sophia Gardens and headed out all over South Wales to be good news. Even my kids Ben and Beci took part. Being good news included running community fun days, painting over grafitti, Painting fantastic grafitti
, picking litter, clearing land, doing car washes, gardening, environmental work etc etc. In total over 6,700 hours were delivered.

In addition 100's of people were told about Jesus and many came to faith. This is what it's all about!