Wow - how time flies!!After nearly 3 months on the road, we have almost reached the halfway point of the tour and as you can see from the expression on Ned's face, we are sooo excited about what God has done and what He still has in store to come!
After an amazing few weeks in Victoria, we hit the road on June 14th to perform and explore our nations capital - Canberra......or as we now refer to it.......Canbrrrrrrrrrra : )
Due to bad planning on my part, Rina and I have spent much of winter touring the bottom half of Australia where the weather is delightfully wet, cold and FREEZING, instead of up north where the sun shines and the sensible people go : ) Although it was a little chilly, we did manage to take advantage of the cold weather hitting the ski slopes at Perisher and visiting 2 amazing schools during our few days in Canberra. (See pics)After a bit of shopping, catching up with Leighton and Hannah's family, looking around, losing my wallet, being pulled over by the police for a license check after losing my wallet, explaining to him that I just lost my wallet but I haven't reported it yet, having the policeman reply - "How convienient", searching all that night for my missing wallet, coming to the realisation that I now no longer have a wallet, we decided it was time to head for Sydney!!! God is still Good - Romans 8:28
About halfway between Canberra and Sydney we stopped for a night to visit our best friends parents Ken and Izabel Harrison in Mittagong, about 2 hours South West of Sydney. It was great to see them again after so long and they even arranged for us to visit their church the next morning so I could play a song. After performing and staying for a coffee, Ken offered to do a little bit of maintainence on the caravan which was a blessing as I am about as handy as a 2 cent piece when it comes to fixing stuff, so we stayed fo another hour and then set off for Sydney.We arrived at our caravan park early evening which was beautiully surrounded by lovely bushland, yet right smack in the dead centre of town - Literally!! The cemetery was right next door : ) How thoughtful of them...After settling in for a day or 2 we were back performing again at several schools all across the city which was amazing as usual!
During the evenings when we could be dragged out of the caravan and into the cold, we ventured out to visit celebrity chef Pete Evans restrauant from My Kitchen Rules called 'Hugos' in Manly. While Rina went back home for a couple of days over the end of finacial year, I took the chance to do a little exploring of my own and checked out Bondi Beach, Olympic Park, ANZ Stadium, The SCG, Fox Studios and of course the Harbour Bridge. After several days of eating the same meal, showering very little and wearing the same clothes, I decided to clean up my act and go and meet with Hillsongs main Children's Pastor Nathan who was really keen to catch up for coffee. This was a really great chance for me to get to know him before the craziness of the conference began and to find out a bit about how they do their albums and DVD's as well as of course - talking about me!!
After picking up my gorgeous wife from the airport we headed for an incredible week at Hillsong Conference where we caught up with Sarah Durell and Steph Kara as well as hearing from TD Jakes, Tim Hughes, Andy Stanley, Judah Smith, Stan Walker and heaps more. Because we were VIP's we got to go back stage and hang out with all of the Hillsong crew in the breaks as well as chat to a few of them which was very cool. There was probably about 15000+ people there each night so the evening rallies were incredible. 
Over the course of the week Rina and I performed 3 times at Kidsong which was amazing! We played on Tuesday at the night rally to over 600 kids which was absolutely nuts and they loved it. On Thursday we played twice in an outdoor ampitheatre to another 600 kids and had a heap of fun. Over the 2 days we performed God totally blessed us by selling lots of merch, as well a having loads of kids come and say how much they loved it and saying that they have even seen me at their school!Well thats all for now. We leave for Queensland now which Rina is very happy about and know that God is going to continue doing good things.
Thank you to all those who pray for us and please keep in touch.
All our love and God bless
Sean and Rina
