I packed my bags and headed out for Creation East in the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday June 27th, even though the festival did not start until Wednesday evening. Our youth group arrived before the gate opened. We were around the 15th in line, yet when we got inside the Agape Farm Campground, a small city was already set up.
Many people arrive every year a few days early to help set up.
Mt. Union is in a less densely populated area in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Merchants in the neighboring small towns await the economy boom as several festival-goers stop in to get food or gas. As we drove to our campsite, I noted food venders not part of Creation setting up on the outskirts of the camping area. We set up our 12 tents in the rain. The teens in my Youth Group did not understand how much better the rain was than the usual unbearable heat.