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Free Chapel shows 13,000 students how faith can be fun with jousting, music, rides
Forward Conference happening June 22-24 at Duluth arena, wrapping up June 25 at church
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Hillsong United performs Thursday night at Forward Conference, which is being held at the Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth. The event is put on each year by Free Chapel in Gainesville and draws some 13,000 youth.
DULUTH — Outside the Infinite Energy Arena Thursday afternoon, teenagers were riding carnival rides, eating snow cones and playing a variety of games including bowling with oversized bowling balls and pins. Inside the arena, the first evening of Forward Conference began with a version of “The Dating Game,” on stage in which a student questioned prospective dates he could not see. That was followed by a jousting competition in which representatives from four “tribes” began a competition that will last throughout the weekend.