The Last Day

The last day of the Gentse Feesten was devoted to the "empty wallet" market and the AA Gent football (soccer) team.

The empty wallet market is an attempt to get as many vendors together in one place as possible so they can sell out and you can end up with an empty wallet. We did not go since it was raining and had other things on the agenda.

We did climb the Sint Baaf's Tower. Pictures are on the picture page. It was rainy at first by stopped by the time we got to the top. Not particularly sunny and clear but not too bad for Belgium. The tower is only open during the Gentse Feesten.

Sint Baaf's Plein is dedicated to the AA Gent Football Team on the last day of the festival. We were disappointed that there was not a flag flying in top of Sint Baaf's when we were there. The reason was they were waiting for the official team flag to fly.

Last year AA Gent played in the finals for the Belgium Cup. They lost to Anderlecht in a close match. The Anderlecht president would not renew the team trainer's (think head coach) contract for more than one year. Guess who offered him a three year contract. That's right AA Gent. The motto here is wait until next year. They are expecting big things and already 80% of the season tickets are sold.

Other than the football frenzy the last day was quite with many of the other venues not having major performances and some markts (the bloom markt for instance) did not open.

Now we do our formal evaluation and get ready for the team for next year. There are some great opportunities for ministry and ministry evangelism. Pray about how you can participate in the Gentse Feesten 2009.