Youth :)

As promised, the blog about youth :D

Our Youth group is called "Wildfire" and is for all highschool kids.. I'm not actually in Wildfire, I'm in senior youth but I'm on the committee so I can go anyway =D

We do lots of crazy stuff and are always laughing and going out :)
Some of the main members of our Youth Group are: (last yea, the older ones have moved up)

Hannah
Chelsea
Bethany
Kate
Esther
Clare
Joel
Nathan
Jordan
Moriah
and Me!

And of course there is our Youth leader - Anthony, and the Youth Coordinators - Ruth and Josh =D AND the Youth Superintendent of the whole of AUSTRALIA! - Jono

Youth for this year is in planning and I am REALLY excited about what 2010 holds!
Our fist activity for the year is a Youth Service and all the music is done by members of the youth :) Services are like my favourite kind of Youth activity because they really get the younger ones involved in worship, which I think is great and important! Each member of our Youth is amazing and has such great Potential and I believe that they will continue to grow stronger througout the year :)

God Bless
-Brooke ox

My Friends =D

Hey all,

I decided to take this time to talk about my amazing wonderful friends =D

Well I already told you about Hannah, She is amazingly awesome and wonderful and my BEST friend like.. eveeerrrr!!!
This picture is of me and Hannah being our silly selves :p haha





The there's all my RADICAL schoolies friends who I CANNOT live without!!!
So in NO particular order:








JADE!
Otherwise known as Jados, Jadneilla, Caramel, or (to her dismay) Gappy ;) ( sorry, HAD to do it!!)
She is amazing and I LOVE her veerrrrrry much!!!
This picture is us posing like we do SO WELL haha!!






RACHEL!
Otherwise know as Rachnilla, Vanilla or whatever else we can throw at her! This photo is one of my favourites! Rachel is amazing and always knows how to make me laugh!! haha!!








SAM!
Otherwise known as Swarley, Sambo, Samdog and many other things that I cannot possibly list because the number is so large!! haha
This picture was taken at Sams party :D




















HANA!
Yes I have two friends called Hannah but to make it less confusing I spell Hannah from school like "Hana" haha :D so yeh, Hana is awesome and I lover her!! we always watch movies together and sit around doing nothing which we are BOTH quite good at!! haha =D (this photo is soooo old!! but its the only one I could find of JUST us!)










JASON!
otherwis known as Jaycoon, coon, Jew, Jewson.. many different names =D
Jason is like THE funniest person I know and always knows how to make me laugh!! =D haha
this is a pretty shocking photo bu OH WELL haha














BEC!
Otherwise known as Beccers =D
She drive me like EVERYWHERE and absolutely KILLS me at eye toy!! haha AND singstar.. but she is still amazing and I love her! =D
(This photo is sooo old but its one of Becs favourites)












Well that pretty much sums up most of my friends.. except youth, but I'm saving a whole other blog for those special ones :D haha

God Bless
-Brooke ox

Sis Wehledge and Halie Adkins visit

On the weekend.. The 23rd - 24th Sister Wehledge and Halie Adkins came to visit our Church with their AWESOME childrens puppet Ministry! On the Saturday was the seminar for Sunday School teachers, where Mel made me do actions in front of everyone :p (THANKS MEL!). The Seminar was REALLY good and I learned sooo much! Mel and I were actually discussing getting a puppet for my class! How cool is that! haha anyway, the next morning was the puppet service and it was amazing! I'm fair sure everyone who left had "Ba ba ba, ba ba, we're lambs" stuck in their head!

The evening service was separated with Childrens Church out the back and it was pretty good =D Kids on the Rock did an excellent job learning and performing their new songs =D


Photo's and video's up soon!.. If I can figure out how to do that... :p haha


God Bless
-Brooke ox

First Blog! =D

Well I don't exactly know how many people will be reading this.. or how it works.. :s
haha But basically this is just going to be like a place where I can just share my day/
stories and stuff :) Hopefully this will be inspirational to some :)

Well.. I guess I'll start with me..
My name is Brooke, hence the URL and user name :p
I'm in year 12 this year and kind of dreading it...
I am part or UPC which is United Pentecostal Churches :)
I absolutely LOVE Jesus with ALL my heart!!

I haven't always been a Christian. I guess it all started when my Dad met Jeanette (his now wife)
and swhe brought him to Church. I instantly fell in love with this place as soon as I went! It was GREAT! I received the Holy Ghost when I was in year 7.. so 11 years old? And I was baptized in 2007, when I was 13 or 14 years old.

My life has been MUCH better since I devoted my life to Christ. I used to just be what people call a "Casual Christian" which I guess was just coming to Church on Sundays. I used to feel so uninvolved in everything, like there was nothing in the Church for me to do. All my friends had some kind of roll, be it sound, singing, music ministry etc. and I was kind of just.. there.
But since my baptism, God has blessed me SO much! I have found that I am involved in SO much! and I absolutely love it! I am currently in the Church Choir, I help run the Children's Choir (Kids on the rock - they're so CUTE!), I am a Sunday School teacher for the Pre-School class (aged 3-5) and absolutely love all my little ones! I am on the youth committee, and hope to one day be the Youth Leader :)

Umm I guess I should put some of my interests? I don't really know how blogs work, so I'll read some and find out.. I think that they're just like diary's? (correct me if I'm wrong), but I will just keep the first one about me and stuff, and the rest can be a follow on of day-to-day kind of stuff.. :)

So yeh, I really love music! I can play piano and I hope to learn guitar too! I also sing, and I REALLY want to be a Praise Singer in church so I can bless God with the gift his has given me :)
Some of my favourite bands/music groups are Casting Crowns, Hillsong, Owl City, All Time Low (I only know a couple songs), Relient K, Brooke Fraser, and stuff like that.. It's really all over the place :S I huess I'm not bound to one genre but enjoy all sorts :) I definately prefer Christian Music! it's pretty much ALL I listen to, bar the odd song from Owl City (Fireflies and Vanilla Twilight) and All Time Low (Dear Maria and Break Your Little Heart).

Ok so on to other things...
My BEST friend in the WHOLE WORLD (next to Jesus ofcourse!) is Hannah :) she is so amazingly superly awesome and I love her very much! I know I am not always the nicest person in the world to be around but she still sticks by me! We have been through so much together and I look forward to this year! (one of my resolutions was actually to start a blog, so I guess I can check that one off my list then! ha!)

So yeh.. This might do it for this blog... hopefully some people read it (thankyou for reading this byt he way!) and yeh... I guess I will keep updated :)

God Bless!

-Brooke ox