Hillsong!!!

Ok so… not a fan of “Awesome Church,”  As convincing as the name may be… Sam, Tamara, Monika and I tried it out yesterday and all walked away saying… “see ya!”  But then three of us hit the Rozelle markets which they hold in a nearby town.  It’s an outside market opened on Saturday and Sundays where locals pretty much sell whatever the heck the want and indi chill-bands get to play their favorites. 

Hillsong “At the Hills” (the main and very first Hillsong campus EVER!)  was last night.  AMAZING!!!!!  We had to get there an hour early to grab a seat.  Brooke Fraiser led worship with the team and Jerry Seville was visiting from Fort Worth to speak on Determining If Your Dreams are From God.  Since he was speaking, it was “American week.”  This entailed a procession of cowboys fighting Indians, cheerleaders and football players, line-dancing cowgirls, the Blues Brothers, Uncle Sam and an army man running around the place with an American flag while someone sang American songs.  Then a big black woman came out to sing the Star Spangled Banner while all the actors came on stage and waved sparklers in the air.  On the finale of the song the let red, white and blue balloons fall from the ceiling!  By this point the 6 of us girls from ASC were laughing and looking at each other with a confused combination of thoughts: “where am I?” “Is this really what they think of when they think of America?” and “This is amazing!”  Anyway, Hillsong was a great experience.  It’s a little ways away but Don, the maintenance man at Wesley Institute, drove us all and he’s such a cute and fun old man!!!

It was after 8 by the time we stopped for dinner on our way back, which was an unanimous vote for “Pancakes On The Rocks.”  How could you pass that one up???  Dinner was a stack of Bananarama Pancakes (pancakes, bananas, butterscotch, cream and ice cream…  In the words of Rachel Ray, “YummO!!!”  It was a great night J