Festival Details

Three distinct stages define a Palau U.S. festival:

Stage One: Season of Service

Hundreds of participating churches become the primary channel to mobilize thousands of believers across the region. These people commit to praying for and inviting five non-Christian friends to help meet specific needs in their community. Service projects, identified by local neighborhood associations, churches, and nonprofit organizations, are launched and the community experiences the tangible love of Jesus Christ. 

Stage Two:  Festival

The two-day festival is a time of celebration and proclamation. Celebrating all that is accomplished through the Season of Service, the festival features Luis or Andrew Palau and partner evangelists sharing the Gospel. Christians who served in the Season of Service invite their unbelieving friends, giving them the opportunity to respond to the Good News. Counselors are trained in advance and pray personally with those who respond to the Gospel, which is presented multiple times at the festival. All are challenged to continue serving their communities long-term.

Stage Three:  Long-Term Impact

In this post-festival stage, thousands of additional volunteers (recruited at the weekend festival) engage in public service projects throughout the area.

Behind the Scenes

Luis and Andrew Palau festivals are year-long awakenings of entire cities to Jesus Christ. During the year leading up to a festival:

• Christians come together across denominational and racial lines to work, pray, give, and learn.
• LPA trains thousands of local Christians in friendship evangelism.
• LPA equips hundreds of local churches to disciple new or recommitted believers from the festival.
• Strategic outreaches to local government, education, women’s and business leaders change individual hearts—and over time, the heart of the city.
• Servant evangelism and community outreach projects bring tangible help and the love of Christ to the city’s neediest residents and locations.
• Citywide anticipation of the event grabs the attention of local secular media, generates public discussion of the Gospel, and makes people want to know more about God and salvation through Jesus Christ.

In each festival city, LPA leaves a legacy of unprecedented unity in the Body of Christ, and a core group of Christian leaders committed to ongoing, combined evangelistic outreach to their communities.