1. Power to Change People

The YFC tent provides an alternative space to Big Top. Come join the banter as we play games, compete for prizes, hear real life stories from special guests and explore the power that Jesus has to change us all! 

Come and chill out at The Hatch, grab a coffee, play some board games, use our creative spaces. You can even bring your food truck food in and eat it here!

Drop in, hang out, have fun, come & go as you please!

Video games // Board games
Pool // Table tennis // Table football
Drinks // Snacks // Comfy seats

Prayer Ministry takes a number of forms at Madness - from MainStage response times to ongoing intercession throughout the festival, and this year we are thrilled to introduce Prophetic Appointments into the mix!

This is not fortune telling or predictions or anything weird like that. This is simply a space where you can retreat from the noise for a few short minutes and be prayed over by a team of gentle and gifted individuals who will sensitively listen for the "still small voice" of God and humbly offer to you what they believe He might be saying.

Sign up is essential to claim a 15 minute appointment.

Remember, if you're under 18, you need to bring an 18+ youth leader with your group.

Not to be missed!

Your chance to sing a song/read a poem/show us your creative side! You can sign up or show up!

Competitions: Dodgeball and Volleyball 

Other sports, games and activities available include: Rounders, Disc Golf, Spikeball, Human Football, Tag American Football, Giant Garden Games, Badminton, Foosball, Table Tennis, Board Games, Crossnet, Gaga Ball, 9 square, Cornhole, Can Jam, Ladder Golf, Golf putting, Tag-Tig, Capture the Flag, Darts etc.

Dating is difficult. Not dating (whether through choice or otherwise) is no walk in the park. And it has the potential to be even harder for Christians. So where do we even start?

Lauren Windle, author of Notes On Love: Being Single and Dating in a Marriage Obsessed Church, offers a frank and empathetic reflection on the state of singleness and dating for Christians. She offers a better model for healthy dating and the ways in which we can form community so that someone can be single but never lonely.

A look at God as our waymaker & shepherd who comes to where we are mentally, emotionally and spiritually in our journey and guides us to good pasture.

The Bible teaches that we are God’s creation and His masterpiece. Our lives have value!

Join us for a session full of creative teaching on how to see ourselves as God sees us.

Focus: drugs and alcohol

Understanding Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in Youth Ministry -  including panel discussion, stories, and lots of practical ideas with the team from Missional Generation UK

Life is full of ups and downs but as Christians we can navigate these twists and turns differently. How? Through the Holy Spirit! Sometimes it can be difficult to understand who the Holy Spirit is and why He makes a difference. But as we try and follow Jesus at home, at school, at college, at work, we cannot leave the Holy Spirit on the sidelines! God puts the Holy in holy habits, and the Spirit in spiritual formation. It's the Holy Spirit that turns that holy habits into life-transforming practices. In this seminar, our mainstage speaker, Pippa Baker will help us discover how to let God the Holy Spirit play a major role in our daily lives and experience more intimacy and power as we grow as Christians.

Cutting edge or falling apart? Making sense of the big things...

Do you feel like living as a Christian in today's world is a bit like trying to mop up the sea with a single tissue - in that it's just too hard sometimes?! Come and listen to Pete explain how the big things connect with God's big picture as he shares some tips for Christians in everyday life.

Drop in, hang out, have fun, come & go as you please!

Video games // Board games
Pool // Table tennis // Table football
Drinks // Tuck Shop (cash only) // Comfy seats

We all want to know who we are. We seek and search and try to find ourselves. We can feel this even more powerfully when we leave school, head to college, start our first job or apprenticeship and strike out on our own for the first time.

Journeys or self-discovery can be helpful things, but what is even more powerful is stopping to ask, “What does God think about me? Who does He say that I am?” In this seminar, our mainstage speaker, Rachel Gardner will help us consider what God teaches us about our identity and worth.

EXALT

Introduction to our prayer App and other resources to help young people to pray

What is AI?  How does it impact me?  Should I be afraid of it or embrace it? How should I react to its rapid advance?  Come and hear experts share their thoughts on how Christians should respond to the AI debate.

Madlug was founded in 2015 by Dave Linton. He was heartbroken when he learned that most children in care have their belongings moved in a bin bag. In that moment, Dave set out to do something about it. With £480, he started Madlug and came up with our ‘Buy one, Wear one, Help one’ approach. With every bag purchased, a pack-away travel bag goes to a child in care. Come and be inspired as we hear more from Dave the founder of Madlug. 

Tunes, cafe, and board games! What more could you want?

Is there a greater time of change than when we’re about to leave school? There are often thousands of questions buzzing around our heads! Like, who am I?  Am I the person my teachers or friends want me to be?  What college or university will I go to next?  What course will I study?  Will I go for a job or an apprenticeship?  What will I do next year?  Where will my friends be?  Where will we go when we’re all far apart?  Where does my faith fit into all of these questions?  We’d love you to join us as the team from The Hub, a chaplaincy serving students in Belfast, helps us to think about what God has to say to us in the midst of all these kinds of questions.

Come along for a fun filled, action packed workshop as we play lots of drama games which will help you unleash your creative side while having plenty of laughs along the way. This workshop is for literally anyone, whether you’ve done loads of drama or have never set foot on a stage. Run by Drama duo, Play it by Ear

Angry Birds

Experience a VR game and how it links to Scripture - youth leaders, come along and bring some young people with you!

How do you do politics as a Christian when politics isn’t really politics? What does the biblical call to political engagement look like, even when it is incredibly awkward? What is the cost of Christians staying on the sidelines?

Stories of those who are involved talking about joys and the struggles. 

This comes with a health warning: you may leave this seminar as an active member of society!

Join the team from Youth Alpha as they share their vision and explain what Alpha can offer, while chatting with speakers and young people from the festival.

Join us for the first heat of our Lowden Acoustic Competition, where up and coming artists battle it out for the chance to win a Lowden Sheeran acoustic guitar.

Your chance to showcase your skills/talents/gifts is at our tea-time talent shows.

Prayer Ministry takes a number of forms at Madness - from MainStage response times to ongoing intercession throughout the festival, and this year we are thrilled to introduce Prophetic Appointments into the mix!

This is not fortune telling or predictions or anything weird like that. This is simply a space where you can retreat from the noise for a few short minutes and be prayed over by a team of gentle and gifted individuals who will sensitively listen for the "still small voice" of God and humbly offer to you what they believe He might be saying.

Sign up is essential to claim a 15 minute appointment.

Remember, if you're under 18, you need to bring an 18+ youth leader with your group.

Not to be missed!

2. Power to Change Priorities

The YFC tent provides an alternative space to Big Top. Come and join the banter as we play games, compete for prizes, hear real life stories from special guests and explore the power that Jesus has to change us all! 

Engage with Pippa Baker's message: "God Inside Out: Making Room for Jesus"

It's going to be grrreat!

The legendary Hub Lip Sync Battle returns!  Grab your friends or, if you're brave, come solo, and Lip Sync to your favourite tunes.  Sign-up throughout the day on Saturday at the Hub venue.

Leadership can be a lonely place but it doesn't have to be. If you're the youth pastor/worker for your church or youth group, we would love you and one other to join us for our Leaders Connect Evening. This will be an amazing opportunity for you to meet other people in a similar role to yourself and form stronger connections within the youth sphere in Northern Ireland. We have an incredible panel lined up to speak life and encouragement into your ministry. Best of all, there will be Epic Pizza, Morelli ice cream & Process coffee making the brews. Please note: due to limited space - RSVP by Thurs 29th June to Jade.farmer@Tearfund.org 

Stephen Logan is a former worship leader for the Presbyterian Church & Church of Ireland, as well as a former Connect Café staffer at Summer Madness. No stranger to the festival, he promises this evening will be an Ed Sheeran free zone of pop covers and worship favourites.

Keepin ‘Er Country: come on down, join a line and let loose with some of your best kickin’ moves.  

Jamie Neish is one of the best singer songwriters about. He promises to deliver a set that will bring you on a journey with his beautiful acoustic tones.

Benjamin Amos & his band will land at Summer Madness after a run of sell-out gigs, for an incredible night of lush musical tones. As a highly rated artist who tells beautiful stories, it’d be rude not to step in and have a listen! Come along to this expansive journey of sounds, from stirring string accompaniments and beautiful vocal harmonies, to uplifting rhythms and touching, heartfelt lyrics.

Late night worship... Hub style!