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<\/figure>A day of prayer, fasting and worship for the nation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>The first non-sporting event ever held at Madejski Stadium<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This was the first ever non-sporting event ever held in the relatively new Madejski Stadium. It took a lot of negotiating to convince the staff, not least the groundsmen, to allow their beautiful turf to be covered over and walked upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>17,000 worshippers<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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On the day we had 17,000 people through the gates<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>The event appealed to a wide age range and people had travelled from as far away as Scotland in the U.K. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In fact we had visitors from Europe and a team over from the States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>The lasting memory of the day for some was the beautiful sunshine.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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For others the memory was of a very very loud event that was almost deafening in places and echoed around the stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>I wasn’t really there!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I had the privilege of having been asked to manage all “front of house” on behalf of The Call team. It did mean that in an odd sort of way I wasn’t really there<\/em>, being distracted all the time by practical management matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Madejski is a huge stadium when you have to get right round it or indeed even across the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ll spare you the anecdotes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sadly if you Google “The CALL England”, the only link you get is this which was written before the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n