Two hundred thousand men, 3.5 million square metres of camping area and 1.2 tons of grass cut and baled. These are the mammoth statistics of this month's Mighty Men conference at Shalom farm in Greytown.
Evangelist and farmer Angus Buchan, who shot to fame with his movie Faith Like Potatoes filmed in Greytown, began hosting the Mighty Men conferences in 2003, reports Niyanta Singh.
He held the first conference on Shalom farm with about 240 men attending. The following year there were 600 men and, as Buchan's faith grew, so too did the numbers. In 2008, 60,000 men came to the event.
This year, the organising committee planned for 200,000. The conference ran from 24 to 26 April.
Bianca Ortmann, spokeswoman for Shalom Ministries, said no crops were planted this year as neighbouring farmers opened their farms as campsites for the men.
Eight kilometers of underground water pipelines were installed to supply 333,000 litres of water an hour for the showers.
She said the major thrust of Shalom was evangelism and preaching. Angus Bunchan used the 'Seed Sower', a 20-ton self-contained Mercedes-Benz 4x4 lorry, equipped with a sound system, 40kva lighting plant, lights and a portable platform.
Source: Inspire Magazine
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