Rating: 1 out of 5Avoid concerts with World Vision!!
by KJW on 5/8/24Mark C. Smith Concert Hall at the Von Braun Center - HuntsvilleThe concert was unavoidably delayed due to some of the band being delayed by a bus breaking down. This was unavoidable and the Zach Williams folks made good decisions surrounding this and started the show ASAP. Everyone showed appropriate grace for this occurrence. However, the World Vision folks who travel on tours with many Christian artists to solicit sponsorships for needy children in third-world countries found a new way to make the concert experience miserable. The same guy gave the same speech he's been giving for at least 3 years. But what's worse is that they did this in the middle of the show, taking up 30 minutes after the show had already been delayed 1.5 hours! There appears to be no reasonable explanation why the WV pitch could not have occurred during the delay of the start of the show! We are glad to pay regular (same as secular) ticket prices for great Christian shows. Zach puts on a first class performance! But with that price, we should not have to sit through a WV sales pitch - much less one that is so selfish and unaware of themselves and disrespectful of other people's time. I will NEVER sit through another pitch by WV or similar organizations. We bought tickets to a concert, not a fundraising event!