I can't believe I'm saying this already, but it has been almost a month since I arrived in Cape Town. Time is flying! This should mean that I only have five months left here, however, I'm very happy to say that I'll probably be extending my stay for an additional three months. There are are still some things I'm trying to figure out, and this isn't 100 percent official quite yet, but I'll likely be staying through December instead of September! The thought of staying here for a total of nine months makes me incredibly excited! I would appreciate prayers that, if it is in God's plans for me to stay, things will all fall into place. :) I'll keep you all updated!
I realized I haven't talked much about what I have been up to at work. One of my biggest tasks has been planning an overall communications strategy for the Foundation. I finished a rough draft of that this week, and the hope is that it will be presented to both the board of the Foundation and to the main Hillsong team in Sydney, Australia, within the next couple of weeks. Having such important tasks to work on right off the bat has been both challenging and exciting! Developing a social media content strategy, a monthly newsletter and re-designing the website are other high-priority items that I'll be paying more attention to after the overall plan is in place.
In addition to working on those things in the office, I've also been going out and helping with some of the many projects that the Foundation has started around the city in various communities and townships. For example, they run children's programs in several primary schools. Although the kids were on holiday break this last week, we still went out to one of the communities and played a version of "The Amazing Race" that we called "The Amazing Grace" with the kids. I was in charge of one of the game stations. It was so much fun! To the right is a photo of some of our team that was out there. I'm so blessed to be working with such amazing people.
This week also has been busy with preparations for the 2015 Colour Conference! Colour is an women's conference that Hillsong holds every year. It was started in Sydney and now runs in four of the Hillsong locations - Sydney, Cape Town, London and Kiev. New York is going to be added soon as well! There are two back-to-back conferences here in Cape Town. One is this Wednesday and Thursday and the other is on Friday and Saturday. I'll be attending the first conference and serving at the second. Around 10,000 women total will be in attendance! I have heard nothing but incredible things and absolutely cannot wait! I got chills the first time I watched the promotional video. You can watch it here. If you're interested, you can also check out the Colour website!
Tomorrow is Family Sunday in church! We're celebrating the one-year anniversary of Family+1, which is a program started by the Hillsong Africa Foundation that provides opportunities for people to open their homes to children for temporary care or adoption. Here's a link to the program's website if you're interested in learning more about it. To help both celebrate and promote the program, there will be a Family+1 desk at church where families can stop by and get a fun Polaroid photo taken between services. I've been assigned to be in charge of the camera and take the photos! I'm pretty excited. It'll be fun to get a little change from what I usually do on Sundays. It should be a great day!
I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday. Thanks, everyone! :)
I realized I haven't talked much about what I have been up to at work. One of my biggest tasks has been planning an overall communications strategy for the Foundation. I finished a rough draft of that this week, and the hope is that it will be presented to both the board of the Foundation and to the main Hillsong team in Sydney, Australia, within the next couple of weeks. Having such important tasks to work on right off the bat has been both challenging and exciting! Developing a social media content strategy, a monthly newsletter and re-designing the website are other high-priority items that I'll be paying more attention to after the overall plan is in place.
This week also has been busy with preparations for the 2015 Colour Conference! Colour is an women's conference that Hillsong holds every year. It was started in Sydney and now runs in four of the Hillsong locations - Sydney, Cape Town, London and Kiev. New York is going to be added soon as well! There are two back-to-back conferences here in Cape Town. One is this Wednesday and Thursday and the other is on Friday and Saturday. I'll be attending the first conference and serving at the second. Around 10,000 women total will be in attendance! I have heard nothing but incredible things and absolutely cannot wait! I got chills the first time I watched the promotional video. You can watch it here. If you're interested, you can also check out the Colour website!
Tomorrow is Family Sunday in church! We're celebrating the one-year anniversary of Family+1, which is a program started by the Hillsong Africa Foundation that provides opportunities for people to open their homes to children for temporary care or adoption. Here's a link to the program's website if you're interested in learning more about it. To help both celebrate and promote the program, there will be a Family+1 desk at church where families can stop by and get a fun Polaroid photo taken between services. I've been assigned to be in charge of the camera and take the photos! I'm pretty excited. It'll be fun to get a little change from what I usually do on Sundays. It should be a great day!
I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday. Thanks, everyone! :)
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