Wednesday, January 28, 2009

My Home



This first two pictures are at Palm Beach, which is a northern beach. The last pictures are of my home at 50 linden way, 2153 Bella Vista NSW Australia. So if any of you want to send me a little gift I would most definitely approve. Our complex has a pool as you can see, I got blessed by God to get a house 5 min walk from church and my rent is half as much as if I was in college housing. I live about 45 min from Sydney in the Hills as we call it, but it is still fairly populated. It is a beautiful area with some nice parks, where you can play Rugby, soccer, Footie which is kinda similar to rugby. The weather right now is about 80 to 100 mostly every day, with plenty of sun. In june it starts to cool down to about 50 to 70. Australia is a very hot place to live, with amazing beaches, people, and poisonous creatures. The city of Sydney is beautiful and really fun at night on the weekends. If any of you want to come and visit my door is always open, just say the word. The wildlife camp was amazing for the kids as well as me, I served the whole week bringing water, serving food and just taking care of the camp. Today I am leaving for a Powerhouse retreat which is college age kids for three days at Terrigal, which is about a hour or so from here. Today I did enrollment at the college and classes officially start on Tuesday, the Lord lead me to serve in Powerhouse rather than wildlife, because I have a big heart for kids my age and its kinda hard to go really deep with younger kids. Please be in prayer for me as I begin College, and for the Retreat these next days. Oh yea if any of you would like to call me from the States my number is (011)61-421-078-970. Thanks for all of your prayers and support.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Short glance at the City of Sydney

on January 10th my friend Adam took me on a fast look at down town Sydney. We started the day off at a amazing coffee shop called Toby's. As we sat outside Toby's he told me about Sydney university, which was just a few blocks from the coffee shop. We ended up walking to the University, as he explained earlier I saw a old late 1800 early 1900 built university with gargoyles surrounding the building. I felt like I was at a very high class university at which it was. In the middle of the court yard was a huge open grassy area. As we explored the University we walked into a room that was being set up for a very nice wedding. After we walked around there we headed to Hillsong City campus for Saturday night church service. Hillsong has many extension services but as of right now Hillsong has two main college campuses which are the church's at Hills (where I am at) and City. A third campus will be added in three weeks called MacArthur. After that he took me down to see the main bridge and the world renown opera house. The night life in Sydney is amazing and I will hopefully soon be able to spend a lot more time down there All of these photos were taken with my phone so that is why there not very clear, plus we weren't in the city for very long. I will show better pictures and have more to tell about the city when I spend a whole day just seeing the sights.

Next week starting on Tuesday morning I am heading off to Wildlife camp (Youth camp for high school students) to serve on the cleaning team. Please be in prayer for the kids at youth camp that they will meet God in a divine way while they are there. I have orientation for college the 27th through the 29th and college starts Feb 2nd. Kinda random but I got to pet a kangaroo at a zoo like the first week I was here.