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Hi Church.

As many of you know I am in Sydney, Australia for Hillsong Conference 09. I am also speaking in some great churches at the Gold Coast and in Melbourne.

I have been here for the last 6 or 7 years for the conference. And I have always left so blessed. To be honest with you the year since last conference has been a great year. Our church has more than doubled. 212 people has responded to an invitation to start a new life in Christ in our services just this year. But as often with all the good thing that happens around us, there’s always many challenges. For me personally, having a really tough experience with our youngest daughters heart surgery, all the different decisions I have had to make, growing as a leader with the growth in church. The joy of all the new people coming and the heart break of some people leaving has really put me in a place where I arrived in Australia a few days ago happy, but really exhausted.

On the plane I felt God spoke to be and said that he had made an appointment with me over the next days. Straight away I felt this deep hunger for Him and His presence. As I arrived, Eric Liljero sent me a demo of a new song he has written. It was like this song was written just for me. I have played it close to a hundred times and God has really ministered to me, filled me up and I am so full of new vision and faith for the second half of this year.

I pray we always remember to work and live in the power from the one who has called us. Last night at the opening meeting Pastor Craig Groeschel spoke an awesome word that really blessed me. God is so awesome and has a way of supplying everything we need if we just keep pressing on in every season and never lose heart.

Well, this was just a some personal lines from me. I can’t wait to be back home in Hillsong Stockholm. I have great expectations on what God is going to do in the fall. Church, I pray we take this summer to seek him and get ready for the best season in our church so far. God has so much more in store for all of us and for every person who will meet him for the first time this fall.

I love you church, pray for me and my family as we pray for you. At the end, Lina baby, thank you for walking together with me. You are my hero I miss you so much!

With Love!

Andreas

Summer time is here in Sweden, don’t think that anyone has missed that!:)
And vacation is coming up soon for many of us.

Just want to encourage you to use your vacation the best way! Of course you
should rest, sleep, relax, have ice cream, lay in the sun and do whatever
you feel like! Have vacation!

But don’t take vacation from God, or Church, or your connect group (your
family).

Summer is the perfect time to listen to teachings, read books and spend
extra time with God (on the beach if you like). Fill up your spirit and
soul!

And since we have summer church this coming month, with only one service at
5 pm, we have plenty of time to hang out with friends during the day, and
then bring them to the service.

Who knows if this is the summer your friend relaxes enough to have time to
open up his or her life for Christ! Don’t wanna miss out on that!!

So lovely friends… Don’t miss out on the summer feeling at church, which
doesn’t mean that we forget God and this wonderful life in Him, but that we
even more than before can enjoy and live life to the full, together with God
and friends!!

Let’s open up our life to others, so that we prompt people to open up to
God, this generous Father in heaven!!

Xoxo

Lina

I was talking to a pastor and his youth pastor today for a few hours. Such an honour and huge responsibility when people travel here to Stockholm to learn and develop, longing to grow their church. I really take that seriously. I have done that myself so many times and are still doing it. I travel a cross the globe several times a year to spend time with my pastor Brian Houston and in my home church Hillsong Sydney. And every time even though their lives are super busy, Brian always makes me feel valued and importeant, always saying how much he appreciate me coming, even though it’s sooo my privilege.

The pastor today asked me what is most important to me as a pastor leading and building teams, leaders and the church in general. Right away I could answer that question with something I learned from being around pastor Brian. 1: keep the soul of the church healthy. 2: there’s no small or unimportant people. Because church is all about God and people.

Now, just hearing that and learning to repeat that does not makes me grow as a leader or help me build the church with that focus. But Taking those truths and make them mine has made it a core thing in my approach to leadership and in the culture of our church.

So let’s not be full of ourselves thinking we know it all, that goes for us young leader more than ever. But let’s committ ourselves to pay the prize of putting ourselves in situations and around Godly men and women. There’s a heritage waiting to be passed on and to be picked up.

Tomorrow is another great Sunday, let’s make it all about God and His awesome people!

Andreas