Growing at the Speed of Relationships – Cassidy VanderKamp on Breakwater 2025

EVENT INFORMATION:

Breakwater Festival Culemborg, The Netherlands: November 7-9 2025

Crowdfunding/Pre-sale ticket link: https://igg.me/at/BackingBreakwater

Breakwater Email: contact.breakwater@gmail.com

Breakwater Discord: https://discord.gg/8DQr77MR33

Cassidy VanderKamp returns to Yours Truly to preview the 4th Breakwater Festival (Nov 7-9 | Kattenburg, NL)—the estuary-style gathering born in Paul VanderKlay’s “This Little Corner.”

Why it matters: Cassidy calls the original online estuary meet-ups “life-changing” and now hopes to “grow at the speed of relationships,” scaling conversations from Discord to embodied community. We unpack:

• How Breakwater flips internet culture into flesh-and-blood hospitality

• The new “naturally grungy” factory venue & speaker lineup (Joseph Foley, Nathan Jacobs, Jelle Houtman)

• Crowdfunding model (tickets at cost, extras like a speaker-dinner & retreat housing)

• Lessons from estuary hubs in NL, Germany & the UK—and why sustainability still matters

• Moving from deconstruction to deeper faith, and why neutral “meaning spaces” help seekers reconnect to church life

Chapters

00:00 Intro & Cassidy’s estuary origin story

05:40 “Life-changing” online Randos

08:10 Growing at the speed of relationships

17:30 Truth-seeking vs. “capital-T truth” showdowns

24:30 What Europe’s estuary leaders need next

36:00 Why Breakwater 2025 picked a ‘naturally grungy’ venue

44:15 Speaker roster & cross-pollination theme

50:00 Crowdfunding perks & how to attend

56:30 Closing encouragement & contact info

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Mentioned: Paul VanderKlay, John van Donk, Taylor Swift, Jordan Peterson, Joseph Foley, Nathan Jacobs, Jelle Houtman, Christopher Hitchens.

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