It's official! I'm now a student at Hillsong International Leadership College! That may not mean much to some of you, but it's the fulfillment of a dream for me. I've strived for years and years to follow God's direction for my life, and sometimes I didn't understand what He was doing, but I'm finally getting it. He's been leading me here for years, but He had to work other things out in me first.
So, for those of you who have never been to Australia, it is the most beautiful place I've ever been in my life. My first week here I was able to spend a day in downtown Sydney with my new housemates and friends, see and walk on the Harbour Bridge, see the Opera House, and walk through the Botanical Gardens. I went to Katoomba to see the Three Sisters and the Blue Mountains, and have been to Manly, Bondi and Bronte Beach. Everything here is amazing! I've also met some really awesome people from all over the world.
On top of those great times, I've been able to start calling Hillsong Church my home church! If you don't know anything about them or what they do, just go to YouTube and look up "Hillsong" and you'll get a small idea. This church is the most incredible thing I have ever been a part of. It's not just a church here. This is literally a community of people who really and truly love God and take their relationship with Him seriously. I have heard some of the best teaching of my life here, and I've only been to services for 2 weeks! And if the teaching wasn't good enough, the worship here is beyond compare. The presence of God is so tangible, because the heart of the church is so pure.
I pray that through my time here, God will engrain the heart of this place into my heart, so that I can duplicate it elsewhere. The world desperately needs what God is doing in this place. I'm so thankful He's trusted me enough to send me here and start on this journey. Words fail to describe the awesomeness of the God I serve. I pray if you don't know Him like I do, that you will start to. It is the best thing you could ever do. There is literally nothing in this world that is worth giving up that relationship with God for. Nothing.
