Festival Director Duffy Johnson filed this report at the close of Celebrate Freedom/Day Two.

As the old saying goes, “lightening doesn’t strike the same place twice.” So we moved the Celebrate Freedom venue and it literally struck again tonight.  It seems we had to top last year’s performance of 19 inches of rain in three days for the mud fest called Celebrate Freedom ’07.  Unfortunately, for the first time in the 18 year history of the event tonight we had to CANCEL the event due to weather. 

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Howdy from the Big D!  Here is an update from Duffy Johnson-Palau Festival Director

Day number 1 for Celebrate Freedom ’08 is in the books!  With a day filled with 100 degree heat and gusting winds up to 30 miles a hour, it left our staff a little wind blown and sunburned.  Fantastic performances were given by the BMX and Skate teams, unfortunately due to high winds the FMX guys were unable to give it a go (please pray for the temperature to be reasonable and the wind to die down so our guys can jump).  Walls went up today for some Habitat for Humanity homes, rappers rapped, comedians produced laughter, and Family Fun Zone performers cheered, danced, and jump-roped for Jesus today.  The many lives changed for Christ today provided a great start for our weekend!  (Read on for some of the stories.)

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With just 2 days to go until the launch of the 2008 Celebrate Freedom in Frisco, Texas we’re thrilled to see tumbleweeds!  Ok, we are not seeing literal tumbleweeds-(but this is Texas!) and after last years deluge of torrential rain with flooding - we’re mighty happy to have a little dust on our shoes-if you know what I mean!  Put simply, we are praying that there isn’t any mud wrestling on the agenda this year.    So far the forecast looks perfect!

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