Salvos offer more than festival spirit
The Salvation Army team at this years Mind Body Spirit festival.
For the sixth year running, The Salvation Army ran a stall at Sydney’s Mind Body Spirit Festival with one intention – to offer Jesus.
More than 60,000 people searching for spiritual meaning attended the festival, which was held from 23-26 October at Sydney Olympic Park.
“We were going into the festival as The Salvation Army, not disguising ourselves as anyone else,” said Lieutenant Christian White, the Glebe Salvation Army corps officer and organiser of this year’s stall.
“We were simply just there, praying with people, listening to people, sharing our stories and just being available to what it was God wanted us to say to people.”
More than 200 stalls offered a variety of interests such as meditation, yoga, herbal supplements, organic health, body therapies, psychic readings, crystals, life coaching and spiritual healing.
The Salvation Army's stall kept it simple, offering conversation and prayer.
“We must have prayed for over 150 people,” said Lieut White.
“We were not there to sell gimmicks or just offer prophesy or healing. The spirit of God is greater in us than that of the psychic or the witch. And over the weekend I saw a woman healed, I saw 12 people saved and I saw heaps of other people directed back to Jesus who were once in The Salvation Army or from a Christian faith.”
The Salvation Army's team of 24, from various corps, intended to reached out to those who passed by, but found many approached them freely once they saw The Salvation Army sign.
“A number of clairvoyants and psychics who watched the Salvation Army team over the four days came for prayer,” said Lieut White.
“In the last moment, when the pack-down had started, a psychic came to the tent and received Christ as Lord, the first step in a journey to discover faith.
“People say 'no-one really wants the gospel' – well, maybe you have to look past the people who don't want it and look to the people who do. People are looking for a powerful, living God. God isn't dead!”
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