Bobbie

So it's been a couple of weeks now since Colour ended! For many of you it was a "three day experience” that happened last month or so. Hopefully it was a wonderful experience, hopefully something magnificent and eternal happened in your lovely heart, hopefully you were strengthened and inspired for the season ahead, hopefully your world will never be the same because of what was either watered or ignited.

Hey wonderful people,

We just had a Hillsong Conference planning meeting ... And I gotta say we are getting excited for these ONE DAY events around our nation. I know I don't need to explain what these are, but for the record, our heart is to come visit your city (if it happens to be Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide or Melbourne) and celebrate with you (and the greater church there) what God has done in all our lives this past QUARTER CENTURY! (Then of course, the Hillsong Conference in SYDNEY will be off the charts as we gather under brilliant speakers and a banner of unity that has witnessed the Church in Australia mature to a place of increased influence).

Hey, just wanna say a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE Thank You to all the amazing men, husbands, dads, pastors and sons who held the fort this past week, so your wives, mums, daughters, sisters and world-changing girls could come to COLOUR!!!

We appreciate you beyond words!
And a HUGE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for those about to send yours!!
Thanks for believing in us.

Bobbie & the team
Xoxo

I just wrote an update for the BE HER FREEDOM newsletter. BHF is the sponsorship side of A21, providing much needed ongoing support for this great ministry attending to the issue of Human Trafficking. It's close to my heart, because it's founders are close to my heart, the problem is close to my heart, and we kinda conceived the name and the dream of what it could be around my dining room table. It's astounding to see where it's all gone in such a short time and hats off to the A21 team and everyone supporting them. As a local church we are totally committed to it finding it's true strength.

Hey Gorgeous Girls,

It is only 8 days till the opening night of COLOUR 2011 in Sydney and we are so excited about not only hosting you but hopefully your team and friends. We are bathing the conference in prayer (and crazy preparation) and have great expectation that God will do what only He can do in your personal world and in this growing and maturing SISTERHOOD.

My big son (Joel) just posted the above picture of NYC from the air. He's been on the USA/Aftermath Tour, but took this past Sunday to race home to NYC to be at church. When I saw him tweet this picture, it prompted this thought.

When Brian and I were flying over that same air space last October (for the official launch of Hillsong NYC), I suddenly felt different about the city. I've been to New York a couple of times, but flying in that night, the skyline and all it represented felt different ... it suddenly felt like Home because of what was about to be planted there.

Ever heard that saying... "All dressed up and nowhere to go!".

I’m writing this on a Monday morning, I'm still in pjs and it's now only two and half weeks till I step onto a platform that (I know without a shadow of doubt) truly belongs to God (ie Colour). I say this, not because I am nervous or anxious ... but rather just very mindful of the magnitude of all it represents.

On the surface it's a fabulous womens conference, with all the dynamics of a great weekend out for anyone attending. Hopefully there'll be plenty of light and shade, laughter and tears (the productive type), "ah-ha moments" and space to breath and relax (with maybe a little therapuetic downtown shopping thrown in for visitors). If there is anything that our house is anointed for, it's worship ... and any X-factor on this years gathering, will again be His Presence manifest and felt. No matter how thorough our preparation is, the One who will make sense of it all is Jesus!

Okay, my team are so fun!

Last week they loaded onto the web EVERY COLOUR BROCHURE they could find, which probably wasn't easy because you'd think we'd have comprehensive and beautiful files of each year, with lovely journal entries logging the lovely things that have happened, but alas, we don't really (smile).

Anyway, whatever graphic files they could find, they found ... and for the rest they took photos of whatever they could lay their hands on (no doubt) in the storeroom.

The "wave" gets me every time!!

The 45 second clip attached is another ad for Colour that we showed at church this weekend. It's kind of "signature Colour" ... the big beautiful dove (symbolic of the Spirit) that has majestically "flown over us" for the past two years ... and then gorgeous Lisa Bevere almost prophesying what she says ... AND THEN THE WAVE, where I get the SYDNEY conference to send a huge wave to what will be the LONDON and KIEV conferences!!

Hey everyone, Well 2011 has well and truly begun & not without some massive challenges in Australia, with the tragic floods. We appreciate the love, concern and support from so many of you around the world. So as a local church (that kinda spreads far and wide) we ended 2010 with Sisterhood UNITED events across our international churches. There was an amazing turnout (7,000+ which is so encouraging) and I thought it would be great to give the girls who are part of our world (and of course, anyone else interested) a little insight from our lovely lead girls.