Today is the first day of the 35th Bienniel Conference of the AOG in Australia. Hillsong Church is the host for this huge conference. As college students, we have a part to play. Yours truly is rostered for choir during the morning and night meetings, conference operation (basically means I am in charge of doing from everything to anything) in the afternoon. The difference between this conference and all the Hillsong Conference that we had, we get to be registered as delegates. We are able to sit in for some of the sessions as it will be good exposure for us to hear some of the awesome and powerful speaker preach.
Call was at 1 p.m. but we had to in college earlier for briefing, collecting our passes and packing delegates' goodie bags.
Choir rehearsal took place in the evening. Once again I was position at the front right edge of the stage which is rather dangerous in my opinion. I afraid that I might trip or slip and fall off from the stage whenever we are jumping and all excited during worship. That itself would be extremely embarrassing and trust me, I ALMOST fell.
Steve Penny - senior pastor of a church in Sunshine Coast of Queensland was the speaker for the opening night. He is absolutely hilarious! Through his message, I was reminded of my calling and I can't do it based on my own strength but only through His strength. I am a branch that will blossom and bear fruit. It was really encouraging.
Day 2
Choir rehearsals usually comes with a pre-warm up session. Nicole Jordan or known as Nikki J - a WACA student from the city campus took us to a rather hilarious warm up. An early morning call time with no coffee in hand won't even matter because you will always end up doing what she did. You will be tempted to join in the fun. The morning rally started off with Hillsong's very own senior pastor - Ps. Brian Houston sharing the AOG vision and goals of the AOG movement that would like to achieve in the next 2 years. To have such a goal is awesome. To have a gaol to see the body of Christ grow each day is phenomenal. I believe that one day, it will happen to my home country, Malaysia.
After the first morning session, it was back to work - handing out morning tea boxes to all the delegates. A box containing an apple, a bottle of water and a slice of banana cake. Aussies eat banana cake with butter on it. Something different than us Malaysians.
Choir rehearsals usually comes with a pre-warm up session. Nicole Jordan or known as Nikki J - a WACA student from the city campus took us to a rather hilarious warm up. An early morning call time with no coffee in hand won't even matter because you will always end up doing what she did. You will be tempted to join in the fun. The morning rally started off with Hillsong's very own senior pastor - Ps. Brian Houston sharing the AOG vision and goals of the AOG movement that would like to achieve in the next 2 years. To have such a goal is awesome. To have a gaol to see the body of Christ grow each day is phenomenal. I believe that one day, it will happen to my home country, Malaysia.
After the first morning session, it was back to work - handing out morning tea boxes to all the delegates. A box containing an apple, a bottle of water and a slice of banana cake. Aussies eat banana cake with butter on it. Something different than us Malaysians.
Managed to sit in for the 2nd session with Ps. Ashley Evans from Planetshakers church, Melbourne preaching on authority before I had to go back to work (packing Anzac cookies).
Besides Anzac cookies, delegates were also given a huge slice of chocolate at the end of the day. Oh...the fun of conference.
An Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit popular in Australia and New Zealand made using rolled oats, flour, desiccated coconut, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda and boiling water. Anzac biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I.
It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation. Today, Anzac biscuits are manufactured commercially for retail sale.
Biscuits issued to soldiers by the Army, referred to as "Anzac tiles" or "Anzac wafers", differ from the popular Anzac biscuit. Anzac tiles and wafers were hard tack, a bread substitute, which had a long shelf life and was very hard
Besides Anzac cookies, delegates were also given a huge slice of chocolate at the end of the day. Oh...the fun of conference.
Day 3
Did the usual stuff which I've been doing for the past 2 days - choir, giving out morning tea boxes, sitting in for sessions. The interesting part for this day is that I saw sheeps near the Ministry Centre. YES! I FINALLY SAW A REAL SHEEP!!! I've never seen sheeps in my entire life before. My I spent my lunch break feeding the sheep, patting them and took one of the sheep for a walk! It's just like walking a dog but come on! Walking a sheep is just cute! It truly made my talk. Just thinking about it makes me all excited.
Got a break from choir during the evening session because the Islander choir took over; which means I get to sit in for the whole meeting. The Islander choir sang, dance and chanting started the meeting. It was so awesome! Everyone was cheering and clapping.
The Islander dance
Talented Islanders
At the end of every conference will always end up with one thing - sleep.
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