Skip to main content

I'm back at the O2 Arena again...!

and this time it's for the *drumroll please* annual Hillsong Europe Conference 2010! excited whoop!

My conference band for 3 days due to tight security at the O2

This conference never fails to amaze me (this is my 3rd conference can you believe it!), the things these church guys do for such conferences. Everything was brought a notch higher, as we moved from the Excel Centre to the O2 arena. Talk about the step of faith, filling up the whole O2 arena for the conference. And it is really exciting for me to be able to witness this. And the hundreds of volunteers who gave up their personal annual leave, sleep and time to serve, it was all with a spirit of excellence and extreme enthusiasm.

V for Volunteers

What to say, although my pastor from home is not here this year, we had the very famous Joel and Victoria Osteen from Lakewood Church in Texas, the biggest church in America today. Their Night of Hope on Friday was... actually, I don't know the word to describe it... it was beyond my expectations. It was truly a night of inspiration and hope. I didn't think there was any dry eye in the O2 that night. I watch his podcasts as and when, but wow to hear him live in person... I don't expect it to happen again unless I visit Texas at some point of my life.. so yes you could say I was excited to hear from this man- what makes him so special, so enigmatic and what makes his church grow to 40,000 strong (and still growing!). And I think I saw a glimpse of it all that night. God has truly blessed him with such a beautiful family, and oh the encouraging message he and Victoria delivered. (O2 was packed full that night, and Kathy who was serving as an usher on the top floor was literally screaming into the microphones "we neeeeed helpppp!")

Joel Osteen & the Lakewood music team

She is like a life size barbie doll.

When it ended this evening, I somewhat felt lost.. like not knowing what to do tomorrow now that conference is over. It's a strange feeling. I think conference made a difference in my life again, like how it did last year. It's not tangible but I know that seed has been planted. :)

Jenetzen Franklin from Seattle

A surprise song item for everyone

Finale night

Reuben Morgan from Hillsong Sydney

I tried an arty shot of Reuben Morgan hehe

The coolest worship leader to me, Peter Wilson

and of course, Joel Houston from Hillsong Sydney
(who actually badly needs a haircut if you ask me haha)

M and I had a precious conversation on the way back tonight.. we feel so blessed to be plugged in such an amazing church, and having conferences like these just exposes us to the Truth and the blessed life that He has in store for us. London + church is the perfect combination for me. It brought me closer to God and established many lasting kingdom friendships. I will be forever grateful for this London experience.. To be away from home miles away, you are plugged out of your comfort zone and have no one else to trust except God. And this is what makes it precious. Many times, I look at my life and I feel like I am not worthy of everything that I have now. But He is faithful and has come through time and again for me.


When only love
Could make a way
You gave Your life
In the beautiful exchange

When only love
Could break these chains
You gave Your life
In the beautiful exchange

Holy are You God
Holy is Your name
With everything I've got
My heart will sing
How I love You
Labels:

Comments

sojjos said…
u inspire me to start attending church! i may try All Souls Soon, pray hard jubilee line is not down, and ok, em, after my 2 shopping trips!
12 October 2010 at 21:23
sojjos said…
oh and you may like this!
12 October 2010 at 21:30
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Murder Mystery Dinner Party

Two Saturdays ago we were invited to the Kim's for a themed dinner, specifically a Murder Mystery dinner party.  What is that, you might ask.  It was our first time attending such a dinner too, and so how it works is: a group of people attend a dinner party.  Each is assigned a role and will be given a script to read that night.  The aim of the party is to identify a murderer in the midst of us by the end of the night.  The hosts would work off a dinner game set (they got it off Amazon) and it comes with proper invites, setting/ scene, table name cards, scripts and even a suggested menu.  Clearly RX is an Agatha Christie fan. Two weeks beforehand, we received our invites in the postbox, telling us what roles we each have been assigned and the suggested attire (and props if necessary).  Interesting yes? The dinner was to start at 7pm and we were to have 8 people that night.  It's all very mysterious… Our invitation cards assigned K the...
Post a Comment
I wanna read more!

Cooking mee pok dry | bak chor and fishball noodles

When I touched down at Changi airport a few weeks ago, I was very hungry and K suggested grabbing a quick bite at the food court.  I immediately went for the queue at the bak chor (minced pork) noodles stall.  This one dish is very local and we simply can't find it here.  London's Chinatown has a few Malaysian restaurants with fried kway teow, chicken rice, laksa, etc but there is no authentic fishball noodles or minced pork noodles. When my friend Corinne shared this link last week, I was intrigued and I didn't know K was too.  He suggested going to the Asian supermarket on Sunday to get the necessary ingredients.  We found Dodo fishballs from Singapore here - what a win!  Unfortunately the mee pok (yellow, flat noodles) is of a darker shade here and tastes slightly different (maybe a different type of wheat?).  We found fishcakes too. http://delishar.com/2015/12/fishball-noodles-mee-pok-tah.html This is a healthier version of the hawker center'...
Post a Comment
I wanna read more!

Memories made at Danson Park

I can't believe I still have readers to this dormant blog!  Thank you for coming back again :) In case you didn't know, our little family of four actually flew back to the UK together for the first time last November.  For me, I've been back twice with Izzy, and poor Gabriel kept asking when could he go back to London.  Finally K said we should take the trip together and also drive around northern France, our fav area to visit.  Well fav, in that it is very easy to get to from the UK and we have really grown to like the more rural parts of Brittany. I grabbed the chance to contact Joanne, who took some photos of the kids previously.  In fact I think she has seen my kids grow up, from taking Christmas photos to family photos. We were pressed for time and I had to do some convincing for K to agree to do this shoot... looking at the photos, glad i insisted on doing it.  More to document kids growing up well.. and us growing old  I plan to blog more about ...
2 comments
I wanna read more!