So you may be reading along and find out that Matt is serving on sunday mornings in the Chinese Extension Service. You might then ask yourself...What the hek is that?? Well first let me explain what an extension service is. It is really sort of self explanatory. Hillsong has 14 different extension services throughout the greater sydney area outside of the 4 main campuses (Hills, City, Macarthur, and the new Brisbane campus). I have been assigned (as part of my education) the privilege of serving in the Chinese Extension Service. One great thing about it is that it takes place right on the same campus as the Hills... it is in the Chapel. This is great because it is merely a 5 minute drive on sunday mornings!!!
The next question is...Do you sing in Chinese or in English? And the answer is a simple one... yes. We do 2 songs in english and 2 songs in chinese. Each translation of the songs are displayed on the screen, so that depending on the leader, the congregation can sing along. The message is also translated so that each culture will understand.
I have been playing guitar and doing background vocals for the last few weeks so I have been slowly learning how to sing in chinese. Luckily we have a housemate from Malaysia so she is trying to help me out but she always seems to end up laughing at me :)! I will be leading the worship next month so I'm excited about that!!
Thanks again for everyone's prayers, God is awesome and we are having a blast learning just how great and awesome He is!!
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