Mega Fest 2004

Mega Fest is the combination of three established conferences: Woman Thou Art Loosed, Manpower and Youth 3-D Experience. Held last week (June 23-26) in Atlanta, Georgia, those four days were jam-packed with preaching, workshops, fellowship, revelation, deliverance, prophecy, confirmation, hope and a Word from the Lord.

Bishop T.D. Jakes

NOTE: I have never attended a large religious conference before; I was apprehensive to say the least. I’ve also never been one to follow popular preachers or attend the next, hottest, anointed conference or convention. I don’t even like large crowds.

Yet I felt the Lord urging me to attend Mega Fest 2004 so I stepped out on faith and went forth. I was struck from the beginning by the professionalism of the Mega Fest committee. I went to the website; I registered online, received up-to-date information via email and regular mail and was able to keep up with all the speakers as they were added over the months. These folks were truly the ones ordained to pull together this type of massive effort.

Paula White

Believe me when I say that Atlanta definitely knew that Mega Fest was in town! We jammed the Atlanta airport, the hotels, the streets, the cabs, and the MARTA rail system. The news media quoted attendance figures of 100,000 and there were daily updates about the conference throughout the week. Signs all over the city welcomed Mega Fest delegates from around the world. The Georgia Secretary of State said Mega Fest 2004 would generate $100 million dollars in revenue for the Atlanta area. The response to this conference was huge! Yet the central reason we all came together was to meet the Lord.

At the opening ceremony, you could feel the excitement as the Georgia Dome (home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons) slowly filled. This fantastic venue seats about 70,000 – there were at least 50,000-60,000 of us gratefully worshipping, weeping, dancing, shouting, and praising at any given service. There really wasn't a bad seat in the house because there were screens all over the Dome. (There were even TVs in the bathrooms). The service was shown on satellites over 250 stations around the world as well as prisons as far away as Bermuda.