More than 20,000 campers and day visitors descended on the Wiston Estate near Steyning, Sussex, for a two-day event over Pentecost weekend. The Big Church Day Out offered families the Big Church Fete where there were fair rides, a climbing wall, arts and crafts and face painting. There were three different stages with a variety of worship styles brought to crowds by artists from the UK and abroad, including Rend Collective; American worship leader and composer Israel Houghton; Martin Smith, formerly the front man of the Christian rock band Delirious?; the Watoto Children’s Choir; and rap and dance group LZ7. There was prayer and more intimate worship in Wiston Church, near the estate’s house. The church was packed throughout both days as people sought some quiet, more reflective worship time. Tearfund ran its ‘Free a Slave’ campaign, and the event ended with a beacon being lit to launch the Diocese of Chichester’s new mission strategy.