Compassionate festival-goers

Today I volunteered for Compassion at Heavenfest festival. I was in the early shift, and our main goal was to handout child information packets in the middle of Seventh Day Slumber's set on the main stage. I don't really know much about the band, and am not exactly into "Jesus metal" (or whatever category they would be in), but the lead singer has an incredible story to tell in support for Compassion, so it was great. He took about 10 minutes in the middle of their set to talk about Compassion's mission and to encourage people to become sponsors. Apparently there were about 500 sponsor packets brought to the event (apparently they estimated 10k attendees and shot for 5% of the audience), and I'd guess we passed out 250 within 2 minutes of asking people to raise their hands if they were interested in sponsoring a child. I have to admit I was worried people would ask for a packet but not fill it out (it's easy to say you'd like to help, but you really speak when you sign on the dotted line and commit to writing letters, sending photos, money, etc.) but to my surprise and joy, so many people filled out their packets that we ran out of pens at the booth! It was a great experience and I'd like to volunteer again whenever the opportunity comes up. It feels really good to help spread the message of something I feel strongly about, and have been affected by in such a positive way. It was pretty hot so I didn't stay for the whole day, but it seemed like a really solid turnout for the event. I was surprised to see license plates from Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and even a group of several cars from Wisconsin. I hope they do the event next summer and can get tons more third world kids helped.