Once again, I've fallen into the trap of blogging neglect. Since starting my job, things have been hectic for me. I was working 3 days a week when I first started, but now I have been doing only 1 shift a week. Please pray that I will get more shifts. At least 2 a week would be great!
I need to update everyone on Colour Conference!! Oh my goodness - so amazing! My experience this year was so different compared to last, because I actually was in the sessions (last year I served in kids). Even so, I was my team leader's right hand woman, so I had a radio and earpiece the whole conference, and people were constantly speaking on the radio. So even though I was present, I wasn't able to listen and comprehend what the speakers were saying sometimes. Thankfully, I had two conferences to catch what was spoken. (Both conferences were identical)
Here's the promo video for the conference (this footage is from previous Colour Conferences - probably mainly last year - no footage from Colour 2010 has been posted yet due to the fact that Hillsong London and Kiev haven't had their Colour Conference yet. Don't want to spoil anything for the European sisters!)
I served in hosting during the conference, which was so full on! I was quite worn out halfway through the first conference, and by the time second conference came around, I was flat out tired. But I'm learning how to serve whole-heartedly past feelings.
I honestly felt so task orientated the whole conference. Since I love fellowshipping, it was really hard because I wasn't really able to do that. I wanted to just talk with the ladies. I found myself a bit annoyed with the women though, because they would just be so mean or over the top sometimes. I would get smart-mouthed or nearly run over when I would "man" the internal doors before door opening for a session. We would flat out get told by some ladies that we were doing a bad job and then they would proceed to tell us how the hosting team should be run. Little did they know that they were complaining about a completely different section and team in hosting, but we just took the brunt of it. I was so impressed with my team leader, because she would handle complaints and accommodate the women so well. I think I learned a lot from the way she handled situations and found myself doing the same thing at second conference. I also learned that I will not complain or get angry with anyone inside church life anymore, because there's so much that goes on behind the scenes that I don't know about. But they weren't all a bunch of rude women. Haha! I actually did have quite a lot of really lovely women encourage me, give me a hug, just tell me that I was doing a great job, or just thank me.
All in all, it was a great experience! I had a total God moment at the end of both conferences. When everyone was walking out, I was checking up on my team to make sure they didn't need help and also to see what needed to be done. A lady walked up to me and asked me where the Western Foyer was, and when I explained it to her, she looked a bit annoyed because it was at the opposite side of the church and someone else had sent her the opposite direction. I told her I would just walk with her there. Along the way, I found out that she is actually the pastor over the women's ministry in her church in another part of Sydney. She explained to me that she had started the ministry 2 years ago and it was just difficult to break mindsets and move things forward. She expressed to me that Colour was such a huge blessing to her because it empowered her to go back to her church and "be the change". I asked her if it was her first time coming, and she said that it was her 4th time. Wow! I was amazed because I could tell it was a fresh annointing she had received. Her beautiful eyes were bloodshot red from crying so much. I got the amazing privilege to speak into her life and encourage her! What an honour to play a very very small, yet significant part in encouraging an amazing pastor to move her own group of sisters forward!
Hope life is treating everyone really really well! If by some chance it's not, know that God is faithful. Keep pressing into Him. Stay by His side. He will sustain you. He's got us no matter what season of life we are in!!
Make this your confession: "Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand." - Psalm 73:23
God's always with you. Challenge yourself to always be with Him.
