God arrests my heart — “come back to Me. read my word. draw near”. It all starts to catch up to me, I begin to realise how much I do but how little time I invest into my own spiritual walk. Faith can so easily become a works based system so quickly, the busyness of life corrupts us.

I respond to God, I read His word and attempt to draw near to Him. This is my challenge, to manage my busy life and make sure that God is a priority.

The camera ops i worked with were amazing, especially Fotis on MCU and Nathan on stage cam. I also really loved the work Jonas and Morfula did with the close ups, shot composition and overall style. Julie, you stuck to the shots I asked you to, and this really saved us from a directors view a few times. You and Fotis also co-ordinated your cross-disolve shots beautifully!

Also worth noting, we had a tiny crew. No stage camera assistant, so Nathans shots were very restricted. Also, we had a minimum 4 people in the control room (Ravnar on CCU, Keilah on GFX, Sam producing/senior op/pres desk and me directing. We were running on bare minimum, and pumped out a great quality broadcast. Another thing that really made me stress was the addition of a whole new segment to the nights run sheet, changed made half way through the service! But the team pulle it all togeather nicely.

I also need to thank the team in broadcast, it was nice to actually have a sound engineer helping us for once at PH, normally we have to do it ourselves. It sounds fantastic on the DVD.

We decided to take an artistic approach to the night, fast cutting, fast defocuses/focuses and we also desaturated all the colours (Black and white for those less-technical readers). I must say, at the time I was cutting for what looked best on screen and ignoring making the DVD look good (by choosing shots that complemented the pres-desk-ISOs and cuts).

Hopefully I will be able to post some clips of what we accomplished tonight, I just need to get approval to post the clips from united.

The praise and worship each night was unbelieveable, as 40000 people came together to glorify Christ i couldnt help but stand in awe and admire the breathtaking work the Lord is doing in our country and world. The conference theme of “one love” was what the Lord used to unite the churches of the world as one, and equip them to go back to their home countries to be the hands and feet of Jesus. I thank God that i am a part of a church that is impacting every corner of the globe.

In the same week, Hillsong launched its new worship album: “This is our God”. Spectacular: The acer arena packed full by the combined congregation of Hillsong Church, all worshipping and praising the name and power of the LORD. This album will reach almost every christian on the planet in one way or another, and i know teh heart of Pastors Brian and Bobbie is that this album will impact the body of Christ and challenge them to truly transform into the living, breathing body of Christ.

Michael Guggelimucci took the stage mid-way through the night and declared that God is his healer and provided. The personal revelation that I recieved from the whole album, so far, is that God alone is THE healer, THE provider, THE refuge, and that once we fully realise who God is we can truly understand our own identities, and from there we can see what God has purposed for our lives.

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