YMCA Europe Festival 2008
3-9 August 2008, Prague, Czech Republic
Scouting and Jungschar
There will be a special area on the festival site for Jungschar and Scouts, with a luna park, a small stage, places for outdoor workshops and a campfire in the evening. And there will be a big tent church built up and operated by a Swiss and German Jungschar team.
The Scouting and Jungschar programme starts each day after the morning show, runs up to the evening show and after that there will again be some scouting night activities. In the afternoons there are open air workshops planned, which will include handicrafts and outdoor cooking demonstrations, pioneering, campfire songs and various outdoor activities. Games and sports will be offered as well as time for sharing and singing at the campfires in the evenings and at the worship night on Wednesday, in a candle path. Scouts will also run activities in the city of Prague during the City Action, and will present some of their activities at the Main Stage Programme.
The Scouting and Jungschar programme is aimed particularly at the younger age group of 13 to 17 year olds, but is open to everyone interested in outdoor games, campfire songs, handicrafts, night games...
Responsible: Jo Edvardsen, Norway
Besides those activities, Scouts and Jungschar are also building and operating the place for worship and devotion that is always open during the festival:
REAL LIFE - the festival will be loud, eventful and full of vivid life - but life has many aspects.
In the midst of the festival there is a tent - the tent of God, the tent church . Here you'll find quietness, here you can meet God, and here you find people who want to help you to do that. Or you can just come here and be yourself, taking time for yourself.
Every two hours we will have a devotion, each time arranged by a different country - once Lutheran, once Orthodox, once Catholic, once Armenian, once in an independent style. In the evenings different services will take place. And there is a Bible Parcours, which invites you to find out more about The Book of Books. Here you can pray with someone, speak out, be forgiven and receive blessings.
Responsible: Albrecht Kaul, Germany
Here you can find out more about the programme of Scouting and Jungschar during the festival and you can see in what areas you can contribute to it.