One Busy Month...

Once again I apologize because it has been ages since I last wrote you all. As always things have been anything but calm here. I have spent the last two week immersed in projects, assessment, performances, album recordings, and everything else that comes with being at Hillsong College. It has all been quite the rush but I'm very grateful for every second of it. Over the last two weekends I got to be a part of projects and events that immediately influenced over 20,000 peoples lives and will go on to reach millions more in the coming months. At present I am sitting in Michel's coffee house waiting for another class to start. With only two more weeks left here I have a bitter sweet feeling of longing for home and knowing I will miss this new home. For those of you who have not heard I will be returning to Boise, Idaho to take up a job at Eagle Christian Church heading up their audio ministry. This has been a strange turn of events in my life but when God opens doors sometimes all you can do is go with it and work with what is placed in your hand. The most common question I have been asked is if I regret my time here at Hillsong and for those of you that are wondering I don't for a second. I've learned much and grown more. I have gotten to see and be a part of things some people only dream of, and more than all of this I have made priceless relationships that I hope to carry throughout my lifetime.

Now on a less serious note let me tell you a story.
Yesterday afternoon I found myself sitting in my living room with a few of my house mate and another guy from school. We were all working on our computers when almost all at once we finished what we were doing. We all looked at each other with a look of confusion as we realized that we are never all together with nothing to do... So in a spontaneous moment someone said "let's go to the city"... Next thing I know four of us are in a flaming hot car stuck in traffic relying on a half working GPS to find our way. It's quite funny being with three guys with no real mission or focus. After about half way there they decided the one thing we were going to do was get Justin to the opera house. After an hour of driving, another hour of tying to find a place to park (that we could afford), and 30 minutes of walking we finally made our way there. We looked at it for about 5 minutes and walked around it then looked at each other not understanding what to do next. After much debate and some input from the looming thunder storm we ended up back on a ferry toward the harbor our car was parked at. I nearly forgot to mention that half of us were missing our wallets and the car did not have enough gas to get home. After getting back to the car we all scraped together some change and paid for the car park. As we started to drive there was a sudden air of frustration in the back seat as the phone that had our GPS on it had roughly 10 minutes of battery left. We decided to use it to get as far as we can then figure it out from there. Once again we all dug together to find change for gas (and I mean change... All small coins). We got one a road we mostly knew or at least knew where it would place us, and made our way home. Right as we reached what would seem to be the home stretch there was a strange loud noise and the car started drifting to the left. We pulled over to find our front left tire blew out. So in the manner only a group of guys could do we stood on the side of a highway and watched one guy do all the work (me)... After our short detour we got back on the road and arrived back home around 11pm. As I look back on it this morning I don't believe we accomplished anything outside of walking around the outside opera house... My friend across the table say only a group of guys could use so much effort to accomplish so little...

I will leave you with that for now...
Blessings! I've gotta run to class!!!

Back on Task.

Hey everyone, sorry once again that it has been so long since I have posted anything. I can’t really make excuses aside from being so busy tying to figure out life and not knowing exactly what to write about. Everything here in Australia is going well. We are all just getting back from our spring break (I know spring in October sounds strange). Everyone had a good break although  I managed to spend most of mine either sick at home or working on different projects. Both Kristian and I forced ourselves to have at least one day where we went out and had fun so we spent all of last Tuesday in the city with some friends. It was a blast and I even managed to find an alright cup of coffee... The days until the end of the semester have begun to draw near as the different major project become due and life becomes more and more crazy. Among school and church I have been asked to help out during album week which I believe should be a blast. For those of you who don’t know what that is. “album week” is the week coming up to their live album recording which is quite the event being held at one of the largest arenas in Sydney. All in all I still have yet to find out what it initials but I’m looking forward to the experience. 

As always there is heaps of pressure on me within these next few weeks of assessments, work, and life changing moves so your prayers are always welcomed and ver encouraged. 

Until later.

Between a rock and a hard place.

It has been a few weeks now since I last wrote you all, and I hope you’ll forgive my neglect. I have been on quite the roller coaster over the last few days and weeks as I try to understand where God would like me. I am now standing between two pathways both  good yet I find that I am troubled with the choice. Isn’t it ironic that I could be so distressed and concerned about two things that are both good... I’m sure you are wondering exactly what it is I am talking about but as for now I am not at liberty  to say fully. All I can let you know is I have been offered a few good things that are in different places and therefore can not be done at the same time.

It is once again another sunny spring day here in Sydney as we discuss Monasticism and systematic theology in our random mixed up class... Aka all 1st & 2nd years in one class (Long story). The rest of today is actually fairly relaxing. I am going to recontact a few more places I applied for work and probably take a night for myself. With school holidays coming up soon the student body has become a little more restless as they await their much needed break. Everything is starting to get a bit more busy around here with Mens conference, and album week arriving shortly, and I’m excited to help with album week. 

Over all I think things are going well here and I hope to get to tell you all more as time goes on.

Until another day...

Another Day Down Under...

It has been a few weeks since I have written anything to you all.  In the last few weeks things have been  a roller coaster of events. Some good, some not so good. Over the corse of these last two weeks I have seen friends find work and get funding and others have their 3 week old MacBookPro completely distorted and another end up on crutches because of one misstep.  

I have been privileged to have work this last weekend and the possibility of more in the near future. During the week I have been running like crazy tying to keep up with everything that is going on here. It is quite the mad house here from day to day, and one that I seem to thrive in very well. I have learned a whole new level of appreciation for my craft (production), whether that is caused by the 40 minute walks in the freezing rain at 5 in the morning, or by long hours of work that gets taken apart in a matter of 30 minutes or less. I have learned that I do what I do because I love what I do and I love who is glorified through it. (Please don't hate on my horrid grammar…) 

Although life is not easy here I have come to appreciate it and the challenges that every new day brings. I have learned that while at school they pack our days out so much in order to give us roughly 10 years worth of ministry experience within one or two years. Amazingly enough today is my day off (meaning I got to leave the school at noon rather then 5pm) so I am getting some rest and possibly going to have some fun tonight… I am still in great need of work to continue my studies here, while I have had some it is still not consistent enough to make due. I have been assured time and time again that God will provide. So I'm going to just keep tying my best and see what he's got planned for me. 

Im sorry its been so long since I have posted anything. I hope to get some pictures and videos up soon enough so you can see a bit more of life down under. 

Just another night...

Sitting in a room full of very silent guys, a few of my house mates and I begin to think on the fact that we are running out of funding. We have all hunted week in, and week out for work and done everything in our power to cut food costs to nearly nothing but our near future looks bleak still. As we all look around the room one of my house mates makes the simple yet profound comment “how is it possible that God sent us all half way around the world to just go back home?”. Confused, distort, and somewhat disheartened we all went about what we were doing tying to ignore the feelings of uncertainty that now eclipsed our lives. I honestly don’t know what to do outside of continuing to try my best with have is placed in front of me. 

I hope tonight finds you all well, and that you week continues the same.

Until later...

A Different Kind of Chapel...

After another insane week our video team has released the chapel opener video with some clips of the actual chapel mixed in. This is truly a great example of the kind of work we are doing. 

Back to the Basics...

It is a truly beautiful feeling to understand ones life, in a day to day sense of corse. I mean I would love to understand everything, but lets leave that post for another (more arrogant) season of life. I have now learned my new lives routine! It is a cloudy Saturday  night here in Sydney, Australia. Most of my house mates are out at different parties but the faithful few (Kristian, Justin, and myself) are spending a restful evening knowing that tomorrow will be a busy day. For unlike some of our other house mates we “get to” serve at O’-dark thirty in the morning. Although life is going well here realism does ask that you all be praying for me as I continue searching for work. The clock is counting down to the time when my savings and your wonderful support runs out. I have been steadily assured that I will find a job, but would love prayer in that matter. 

I hope all is well back home. I best go rest my scatter-brained mind.

Blessings!