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Students gather on Pardee Lawn to celebrate Passion Palooza on Tuesday evening. |
-Photo by Jason Harville |
Possibly mistaken for an extended “Wonderful Wednesday,” celebration, Passion-Palooza graced the field of Pardee Lawn on Tuesday evening trying to gain interest in the One-Day conference Memorial Day weekend.
2002 alumni Brian Davis led worship and Passion representative and Tusculum University senior Joshua Helms spoke on behalf of Passion. Approximately 75 to 80 people attended.
Junior Sarah Mason, a volunteer, said, “I thought that the turn out was pretty good, but you can never really know what to expect with things like this.”
Sophomore Crystal VanMeter, is a part of the 10-member planning committee at Milligan who helped organize the palooza.
“We spent a lot of time putting together the Palooza,” said VanMeter. “It had a pretty good turn out. We hope that people became interested in One Day, but mostly we just hope that God got some glory.”
There will be over 50,000 college-aged people at the conference in Sherman, Texas including students from Milligan as well as neighboring schools such as ETSU. By registering early, students can travel with Milligan for $45, which includes registration and travel expenses. A late fee of $10 will be imposed if registered after May.
As seen at Passion-Palooza, One Day is an event where students prepare for two days leading up to the worship time for the “one day,” which is Memorial Day. The conference will be based upon Joel 2:15-16a.
“It pumped me up and got me excited and knew I wanted to go to Texas and be a part of it,” said VanMeter. “I’d love to help be a part of the team to blow the trumpet. I knew I wanted to be a part of the team that gets Milligan students excited about going.
As a small group, we have been meeting, planning and doing some promotion ideas to advertise for One Day since the middle of March.”
Junior Katie Massey is also a member of the planning committee.
“We wanted to build excitement in the campaign to go,” said Massey. “It will be a life-changing experience, and I know we will see great things in our world because of it.”
Junior Jessica Carter said that they will continue to advertise the event and try to get people to sign up to attend the One-Day conference.
The conference happens once every three years. The last conference was in Memphis, Tenn. and featured author Beth Moore as the main speaker and David Crowder as music leader.
Because One-Day wants to keep the focus of the conference on worshipping God, this year’s main speaker and bands will not be revealed until it begins. The origin of Passion was not available before print.
People who want more information can sign up in the cafeteria until April 19 or go to www.oneday03.com.