Welcome to SoulFest - Part 2

"What Brings You to SoulFest" by Dan Russell

SoulFest is a collaboration and a celebration to call down this explosive and transformative power through songs, workshops, and testimonies of those representing the passion of Jesus in action – inviting True Love to change us, change me. Through all the fun, the beauty of this spot on earth, the sound of the voices around us, may God provide moments when we realize that none of us are strangers, that we are all brothers and sisters, regardless of skin color, traditions, financial status. May God provide you and me with specific opportunities to mature, to grow, to get off the treadmills of routine or tradition.

Your opportunities – the ones with your name on them – may include the benevolent offerings each night, or conversations you have with a new friend, a vendor, a volunteer, those you traveled here with. Maybe your opportunities include time by yourself or, ultimately... with God. Please do not allow yourself to turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to these opportunities. Step forward, follow the inkling, the calling, the kick, the directive. If you do, you may just find yourself out of the boat and walking on water. If this happens to you, don't think twice about physics, gravity.

At SoulFest this year, if you come to the Cross and trade your fear of sin for the gift of forgiveness, if you fill out the SoulFest Pledge to live the revolution Jesus started and now calls you to, if you put your arms around someone in need, if you stand up and fight against modern day slavery or local and global poverty, you will experience something profound and lasting. You will hear it in your voice as you sing along with Paul, Peter, Mac, Mark, John, Natalie, Phil, Jason and the others who have journeyed here to lead us in this healing celebration and rededication to True Love.

Let's surrender to True Love and allow God's purposes in our lives to take us beyond our understandings, comfort zones, expectations. No matter what brought you here, we want to welcome you to this 12th annual Inside Out Soul Festival, where it is our sincere hope you will discover more deeply what it means to live from the inside out as a soul-connected believer in True Love, the revolution Jesus ignited.

by fantastic mercy,
Dan Russell and the SoulFest Team

P.S. Here are just a few of the many powerful experiences we want to bring to your attention:

rWORLD WORKSHOP and SOUL UNIVERSITY: There are many exciting workshops at SoulFest this year including the rWorld series . "r" stands for Relationship. Many of us are isolated from one another, even from those who live under the same roof. We are ego driven/self-centered and constantly measuring our opportunities from this very limiting vantage point. We are created to live in relationship with one another. Please, please, get yourselves over to these, or some of the other workshops. You can read about all the workshops here in this program... This is True Love Action.

TRUE LOVE PRESENCE: Throughout our time together, the music, the singing, the worship, the teaching, the conversations, the revelations, the renewal, the healing, the fun, the action… God lives in the praises of us all. This is your festival. Thank you for making it so... This is True Love Action.