Great Bible teaching, great fellowship, great fun, great encouragement – all these marked the inaugural Kin(cid:30)re Festival in Kilkenny, Ireland. Six hundred Christians from all over Ireland gathered to worship, learn, fellowship and hang out together.
The idea for Kinfire was born out of an online prayer meeting hosted by the Irish Gospel Partnership (IGP),that attracted over 300 people from all across Ireland. The question was asked: ‘What if we were able to get this many people together in person to spend time together around God’s word and to be encouraged by simply being together?’ And so Kinfire was born.
Kinfire is styled as a festival as much as a conference. The name reflects the fact that Christians are ‘kin’, so in addition to sound expositional teaching, there was plenty of free time to allow people to spend time together. There were bouncy castles and sports, or you could sit around the coffee and chip vans, all afternoon and into the night, making new friends and catching up with older ones.
