Workers Celebration

Nearly at the end of New Wine 2011 and I feeling a little sad. Today was the workers celebration which as the name suggest is a celebration which only team members are able to attend. There is a friendly competition to see who is the loudest team. The kids teams win this one as they have the most members. Anyway the event is a chance for the team to worship together and for New Wine to recognise the work all the teams do. It did bring a lump to my throat to see my team all together in worship. Late's tonight so finish at midnight when we close Blue gate.

Parking

Day off today, but not for us. Job of the day was managing over 10000 people wanting to leave and return to site at the same time! Getting people off was not to much of a problem. Getting them back on was a different matter. There was a plan which worked but the fun started when the brown car park was full. This meant all the cars having to use the blue car park. This is at the far end of the show ground, this is fine if you are on gold or blue villages but is a far hike for those on pink and silver. We do run a 'buggy run' for those that have lots of shopping or have severe mobility problems, however, we now have a seemingly unending list of excuses to why they should be allowed to drive on site. The best one for me was the delegate who said they had broken their ankle some time ago. this of course is something I know a little about so I engaged in a discussion. When I said I had also broken mine they seemed to think they were on to a winner, until that is I showed them the scares. I directed them to a suitable parking space. Off now until 10am tomorrow so should have some time to get in to Venue 1.

Second week

Yesterday was the first day of week two at New Wine. This week there are several thousand more delegates than last week. This obviously led to the gates being more busy than last week. However, we have more stewards this week so the task of getting nearly 12000 people onto site went fairly smoothly. The team this week has more over 25's than last week so this will make things easier especially when manning gates late at night.  We also have a new shift system which means we have more time off which enables us to attend a morning or evening worship and seminars if we wish. Anyway just sitting in the crew room waiting for the influx of evening visitors so off the Venue 1 car park.