WelCom February/March 2025
Nick Wilson
Festival One, formerly known as the Parachute Christian Music Festival, is held annually in January at Karapiro, in the Waikato. The action-packed festival has multiple stages featuring different musical artists and Christian music genres. Attendees hear Christian messages of hope, enjoy worship, quiet prayer sessions, sports competitions and learn about the different missionary and service opportunities in New Zealand and further afield. It is an epic experience open to families, and young people come away reinvigorated in their faith. One of the highlights is an enactment of the feeding of the 5000, where festival goers are fed off Argentinian BBQs. The festival is family friendly and we are going again in January 2026. If your young person would like to come along, we would love to have them join our diocesan group!
