God chose to kick off Vice Hlland’s festival season coverage with the ‘EO-Jongerendag’ (Evangelical Youth Day), an annual on-day youth festival organised by the Dutch Evangelical Broadcasting Associaion. We went to the Gelredome (home of football firm Vitesse and venue for bincerts and events) in Arnhem and witnessed it all, from Christian metalcoreto the punckrocking sillies of Hawk Nelson, from Dutch Christian PM and HarryPotter lookalike Jan Peter Balkenende to a support group for moon bear. Yes, moon bears. We are serious.Left or right? These are An – that’s your name, right? you never called… – and Mellissa (‘with double-l and double-s’), who we met in the train to Arnhem. They simply couldn’t believe we were actually heading for the Evangelical Youth Day. They thought that we were joking and that we – like them – were actually going to the Free Your Mind festival (wich was also in Arnhem on that day). But hey, can you imagine a better place to free your mind than at the Evangelical Youth Day, especially during this edition themed ‘Freedom’? Like Abraham once told Lot: ‘Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left.’ (Genesis 13:9)
