- chapel
- church & ministry class
- other thoughts about college so far
- other thoughts about sydney so far
CHAPEL!
well.. we didnt kick off the morning with chapel. had 1 class first. but i wanna talk about chapel (and its my blog. so hah!)
all i can say is... WOW. ~1k of us (students, trainers, profs, and school officials) piled into the Hub Auditorium, and it was just an incredible sight! all 1k of us here are either leaders in training (pastors, worship leaders), leaders already, or being trained to be servants in other ministries (musicians, TV & Media, dance). and i mean.. no offense to seekers, regular sunday go-ers, etc. but worshiping ~1k leaders was just awesome! you wanna see a hillsong praise pit? no need.. the whole place was on their feet along WITH the praise pit!
along with the worship, there was a short intro, as well as a short msg from the principal (ps. Lee Burns).
it was only 1hr long. but it was simply amazing. excited for chapel again 2mrw! =)
CHURCH & MINISTRY CLASS
first class. first ever class at hilc! i had no idea what to expect... an univ type of lecture? another sermon? sunday school? workshops?
i have to say it was a cross between sunday school and workshop. i mean.. everything was outlined nicely with all the topics we will cover, and the subheadings, with the point forms that followed it. it was really informative.
we covered what the church and different ways of defining it (the house of God - cloud/pillar of fire/burning bush, tabernacle, temple, church, US/our bodies), the family of God - ekklesia!, the body of Christ - function/growing as a whole and in a holy way. hehe.. my blog title!)
it was a lot to take in. especially with 4hrs of just pure information today in this class. a bit of an overload. and guess what.. 2hrs of it 2mrw morning starting at 8:30am! lovely.
you can probs tell im more excited for the tv & media stuff to kick in huh... haha
if anything.. ive realized a lot of the msgs here (sunday service, orientation, chapel) are really focused me YOU. like... who can you become? what God can use you to do? what you were made to do! what you are capable of doing in this world!
where as a lot of what i have been taught was this is who God is. and what He has done for us. as a result, our response is this.
but i guess thats the difference between christian living, and hillsong international LEADERSHIP college. we are being prepared to be leaders here (or at least servants. ie. musicians, tv & media, dance... the creative arts bunch!).
they're really drilling it into our minds that we're special, and we're called to do really really big things!
other things about sydney:
oh its so hot. im so thankful for housemates who are willing to chip in money to turn on the a/c for the evening to cool the house down. i dont think ive ever lived in 40C weather (well.. i dont remember. hk in july, panama in late july. haha... also humid/hot places near the equator in the summer!) but yeah... this heat is a killer! 22 winters in toronto, and now suddenly im living in 40C weather in sydney. :| gimme a bitta that 20-30cm snow! ship it over! haha.. well.. dont. cus by the time it gets here, it'll just be water.. or vapour even! and i know north eastern sydney doesnt want any more water vapour. enough w/ the flooding already!!!
well.. thats actually why its so hot down here in south eastern australia, sydney. cus of the flooding in the north, the humidity is even higher than usual. lovely.
anyways, its 11:30pm, class at 8:30am. sleep times!
PS. good luck to you uwo kids w/ midterms coming up. yuck!
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