Festivals or Crusades?

[Dedicated Mind]

I was listening to an interview yesterday with Evangelist Luis Palau and he was saying how instead of holding old fashioned Billy Graham crusades with choirs, he was shifting towards festivals. They invite several music groups, extreme skateboarding, cycleling, activities for kids like sack hopping and face painting, then end the night with an evangelistic preaching service. Is this the future of evangelism? They also organized the churches in Portland Oregon to serve as volunteers in the community during the summer to spread the word and goodwill of the festival organizers. The festival was a celebration culminating a summer of community volunteering.