Summer and Nothing in Particular.

 Its been a quality summer, with quality roadies and quality people. but after 4 months of holiday doing nothing that productive and a lot of over thinking I'm kinda pumped to get back into uni haha. #mountroady 1 and 2 were dope (for some reason i have had the urge to start saying dope, unsure if its a good thing) went away with four mates i didn't know incredibly well and after the first one we came back real tight, named ourselves the #wolfpack and decided to do it again 2 weeks later. were kind of a gang. which reminds me i still owe Steve Moore $60 petrol money, studylink hook a niggah up!

Elevate Summer Camp was nothing short of amazing! Super meet the natural. i didn't personally get much out of it until Wednesday night, but it was such an honour to see so many youth truly encounter God for the first time, they are never gonna be the same. we are a movement. Camp made me realise how amazing our youth ministry is. honestly the best in the country, with the best youth pastors ever! elevate is going to change New Zealand. i enjoyed hanging out with Jayden Stanly Stuart again, it had been way to long, pumped that hes moving to wellington. Tracy Cullen told me to take my cabin out to the homestead on the last night and freak them out by scratching on the windows and stuff like that, it wasn't that exciting so i told 4 of my boys to press there bums against the windows and bang on them to the curtains opened. that was more exciting, especially when Magz and the p-town girls started chasing us down the road in their car. so we jumped into what we thought was long grass, but was actually weed covered swamp which luckily held our weight. On the walk back i noticed we were missing james from chch and after looking for him for 15 minints at 4am i began to think he could of fell through the weed into the swamp... scariest moment of life. but he didn't, he had ran all the way back to camp. flipn egg.

living in Tawa for a week was pretty legit minus the failed #tauporoady. outdoor movies and bonfires. Andy Gale is actually a flipn musical genius, i am thoroughly enjoying his one man electro pop band.

parachute was random but fun, smallest crew ever. not many good bands, and all the good 1s broke up. trigger theory's last show ever was epic though, and 'all left out' is gone forever. but actually there is no good new Zealand bands left now. but i loved it, just chilling out with everyone. flipn loved Arise hamilton! takes me back to the days when we used to have church at the paramount. its amazing how even though its in a totally different city at the other end of the island its the same as Arise in wellington and still feels like home...except the free home made cup cakes in the foyer, we could do with some of them in wellington haha

currently being listening to the new United album 'Aftermath' for the past couple of hours, totally amazing.

The skies lay low where You are

On the earth You rest Your feet

Yet the hands that cradle the stars

Are the hands that bled for me

In a moment of glorious surrender

You were broken for all the world to see

Lifted out of the ashes

I am found in the aftermath

 Freedom found in Your scars

In Your grace my life redeemed

For You chose to take the sinner's crown

As You placed Your crown on me

In that moment of glorious surrender

Was the moment You broke the chains in me
Lifted out of the ashes
I am found in the aftermath

And in that moment You opened up the heavens
To the broken the beggar and the thief
Lifted out of the wreckage
I find hope in the aftermath

And I know that You're with me
Yes I know that You're with me here
And I know Your love will light the way

Now all I have I count it all as loss
But to know You and to carry the cross
Knowing I'm found
In the light of the aftermath

Bek Burke has moved to Christchurch, I'm still kinda expecting to see her at elevate on Friday even though i know shes not gonna be there, its weird ha.

past few weeks have made me realise how much Jake looks up to me and actually wants to hang out with me. over the two weeks he was away with Mum and Dad on holiday he must have rung me at least 20 times, telling me to come up to Whangamata after camp, that he was trying to find me a ride up, and getting angry that i wasn't coming up. i was shocked. Jake actually misses me??? haha. i enjoyed that i used this influence i just realised i had to get him to buy a sweet RISE crew and swap his gay hat for a cool one.

the Sunday after Camp i found that my passion for cameras and video was restored, and my view had completely changed from it been a rostered task i had to do, back to the view i used to have, of it been an opportunity to worship God and helping people encounter him. as a result i mixed the best i have in months. I'm pumped about getting to a level where me and my team are ready for video podcasting and live service streaming on the Internet. I'm also pumped about eventually getting my own camera and software and making videos for Jesus.

2011 is going to be epic! wasted a lot of time, money and opportunities last year. a dream from God isn't a Promise, but a seed which i have to sow, and care for. i have to work for it to become reality. this year, i am going to work harder than ever before. No more student living costs loan. whats the point? i just spend it on crap food, movies, petrol and clothes, even though its an interest free loan, debt is debt and there is no satisfaction in purchasing something i haven't worked for as i have have no idea of the value of the money i am spending.

Made a New Years resolution never to listen to Kanye. its going great, haven't listened to him all year so far, loving it, also loving having short hair again.

whilst reading this i realised i say the phrase 'flipn' a lot...