Intensifire 2007

Last friday and saturday, Amy G, Amy C and I went over to Orange to attend Intensifire, a youth and young adult conference. While we were possibly amongst the oldest people there (besides the youth leaders and pastors!), it was an awesome experience and, from my end, totally unexpected.

I must admit that when I said I would go, I wasn't expecting much from the conference because I thought it would be too small, etc, having really only attended the larger conferences at Hillsong and Planetshakers. But as it turned out, the smaller size of the conference was perfect. The sessions were much more personalised and the prayer and worship at the end of each were much more intense.

The three of us had a great time, meeting new people and such. The presence of God was in the place in every session, and the experience was like none I'd ever had before. The speakers (Ps Luke McMartin and Ps David Hall) were truly anointed to speak to young people (and hilariously funny!), and re-install a passion for Christ and to do God's work.

Anyhoo, I can't quite explain it, but it was a weekend well spent and I've come away from it with an awakened passion and spirit for God!

There's a larger version of the conference in Liverpool in October sometime, and they have the same speakers plus Ashley Evans and a few others, so that would be awesome to go to aswell!

Anyway, I just had to share a little bit about it coz it got me all excited and I had to let everyone know how awesome it was (even though we had to sleep in a freezing room and the younger girls didn't go to sleep till 3am)! Amy G is using some of what we learnt at the conference as part of her study tonight for cell, so it should be inspiring!

Another random thing....

I was tagged to do this a while ago but have been too lazy (sorry guys!), so here it is for you now:

Wikipedia

The rules are:
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays
5) List two deaths
6) One holiday or observance (if any)
7) Tag 5 other bloggers to complete

THREE EVENTS:

1792 - French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
1981 - In his last fight, Muhammad Ali is defeated by Trevor Berbick.
2000 - Real Madrid football club is awarded 20th Century's Best Club award by FIFA. Also, the song Warning by the popular band Green Day was realesed.

TWO BIRTHDAYS:

1843 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1981 - Hamish Blake, Australian comedian (I wanted to put in American actor, Rider Strong, but I thought I should be patriotic!)

TWO DEATHS:

1282 - Llywelyn the Last, King of Gwynedd (Wales) (Just cuz I like the name!)
2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890)

HOLIDAY/OBSERVANCE:

Argentina - Tango Day, Buenos Aires (Hehe! I love that they have a day set aside for a dance! How could I not put that one in!)

TAG 5 OTHER BLOGGERS:

1. Zarna (coz I like picking on ya!)
2. Katie (Same reason!)
3. Kim (Because I can read your response now!)
4. Anyone else who hasn't done it
5. I think I've covered all the people I know already!