Happy Birthday Dad

Happy 52nd Birthday, Dad!

To celebrate, I'm posting a whole bunch of pictures, to say hi and love you all and miss you all, and a special birthday wish to you Dad to have an extremely blessed day!









I just also want to finish this blog post, with a great praise report on my behalf. After getting off the phone with Mom tonight, I felt the weight of the world upon my shoulders, and my house mates and neighbors that were over noticed my change of mood. I was a little down, but nothing overwhelming. My neighbor asked if it was OK if we could pray, and to just have God's hand work in all our lives and be an example for each other. So after we finished eating some pancakes... because I was half way through making pancakes when mom called... We started praying for each other and for different needs and to lift each other up. All I can say is WOW. God did it again. I felt totally lifted up, the weight of the world was gone, I feel confident in what God will do, and to top all this off, I prayed that Mom would be healed in the name of Jesus from her Lupus, and that her back problems and body pains would completely seize to exist. If anyone feels encouraged to pray the same, to be in union with that prayer, feel free to jump in, and see a miracle happen. Thanks God for my great friends and neighbors here at Hillsong, and for the faithfulness we all have.

I Love you all

Pancakes

The latest craze...

Something really interesting has happened in the past week or so, and it's thanks to pancakes. I've been asking my parents for sometime, maybe three weeks ago, for the recipe of pancakes that Dad normally makes for breakfast. I already know that Dad's signature pancakes are incredible, but I did not expect the following reaction from my house-mates and our neighbors. It started off with trying them out, and people who did try them were lining up for round two. I'm kinda thinking to myself... "OK, cool." After that night (maybe two weeks ago) my house mates have been asking when the next time we'll have pancakes would be. So after the house-mates have given approval on the deal, I thought it would be nice to make a larger batch for the neighbors to try them out. So one Sunday night we gather almost all the neighbors in our house, and host a pancake night while everyone socializes and mingles. In the end at least one person had a pancake to try, and they've given the approval of loving them too. So, where does this leave me now?

Here's the deal, since I've made those pancakes, I've now been known and almost labeled for them. All our neighbors ask whens the next time I'm gonna make pancakes, or hey you should come by our place and make some pancakes. What's even crazier than this, my house-mates have become obsessed with them. I know they're good, I mean I grew up with them, and Dad's the man for knowing how to make them, and teaching me, but now... At any random time, the entire house has gotten cravings for pancakes. So I find myself making them at 2:00am in the morning on our pre-days off, or at supper time, or even lunch. I don't mind making them, but I can kinda see where the demand is starting to become big, I mean REALLY big. To me, that's cool and I enjoy the sincerity of people wanting them and telling me they love them, but wow... I never saw this one coming.

So thanks Dad for the recipe, it turned out bigger and better than I could have imagined. I'm thinking now if anyone else has recipes of great foods and food ideas that they don't mind sharing, please send me an email. I now have an entire army of taste testers to give approval from around the world.

30 Seconds Left...

Hi everyone,

Well I found out how to directly get my videos to work on my laptop for uploading on this blog, and its all thanks to flipping a tiny switch on the cam corder to "digital."

I know I feel like a genius now, please pray for more brains on my behalf.

Well, our house has hit a brick wall, one of the house mates has been making long distance calls without a calling card, and now our house is responsible for an extremely expensive phone bill. So in return I'd like to ask for those to pray for a miracle that we would somehow get through this mess, and believe for something huge from God.

All of us are now on the look out for a job, and some of us have had some interviews and thats a good start.

School is getting better and better as time goes on. The teaching here is so blessed, and inspiring, you have to experience it to really know, believe, and grow from it.

So I leave you all with this video, so that people can see my face once again while I'm away.

Lots of Love, and be blessed everyone.

Message to Canada

Hello Friends and Family, last Monday I spent an entire day off on a Ferry to the Sydney Harbor and checked out the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the Opera House, Manly Beach, the Botanical Gardens, and the St Mary's Church. We were a group of 15 from Hillsong Church, and the photos and video feed you see is from that very trip, plus I've added one picture in particular that contributes to the reason why I'm even at Hillsong International Leadership College from the adventure our cell went to January 2006. So again thanks to everyone for being such great encouragers and for the much needed prayers. If anyone wants my mailing address, you can contact me at the following:

Paul Ross
10 - 375 Old Northern Rd
Castle Hill, Sydney, NSW
PO 2154

I love you all, and God bless you all.

Sunday Nights

Hi everyone,

Today was our standard party night for most Hillsong students. Our group here at "Old Northern Rd" (ONR) don't have any classes all day Monday, so after volunteering and helping out at Church for parts of the day, plus hanging out at the services for incredible messages, we normally head back home and all hang out at all 6 different houses that we live in. Our little "neighborhood" houses 28 students, from 14 nations, from 5 different continents around the world. We are all family out here, and love the atmosphere as new students. Our complexes are all brand new, it seems interesting that new students are completely blessed with these new town houses all so nicely connected. We also have some neighbors 2 blocks away of about 90 students in an apartment known as "Rosa", so there's more visitation that goes on there too. So the feeling of "we're not alone" comes to refresh others in knowing we're all in this together.

So here's the deal with my videos that I wanted to upload and share with everyone. I formatted my laptop when I first received it, and didn't have the right software for video uploads on CD or anything. Now, I'm searching for resources online to help get my video up-link connected so I can share some great footage of Fiji at the airport, my arrival of school on the first day of orientation, and of coarse my video of our neighborhood with the gang. Most of the people saying hi to Canada for me too. I do however have a picture that a friend e-mailed me moments ago from our Sunday night service today. So for the time being you can check this out, while I do my best to get my videos up and running ASAP.


Love.