It’s Been A Trip!

A winding road led me to Hillsong Cape Town, which I now consider home. I’d actually stopped going to church at the age of eighteen when my parents could no longer make me go. I was only saved at the age of twenty-eight, and it didn’t happen in a church context. My future mother-in-law explained salvation to me a few months before I was married. However, I’ve always believed in God. I’ve never doubted that…

Letting go

Letting go About ten years ago, I had my heart seriously broken. It was the darkest time in my life, and sometimes the feeling of sadness was so much that I didn’t know what to physically do with myself. I was suicidal and even asked my mom to check me into a psychiatric institution, just so I could escape from life. She said no, but did send me to a doctor, who prescribed antidepressants. These…

Lighting up Cape Town

My sister came to visit me last week. She works in Sydney for Hillsong Aid and Development and came to check out various programmes that the Hillsong Africa Foundation (HAF) is running here. It was quite an education seeing my city through the eyes of an outsider as we stayed up late many nights discussing things she’d seen and experienced here. My eyes were opened again to the shocking extent of illiteracy in many schools,…

The Most Amazing Wedding

Last year, when it came round to the Heart for the House offering, God really challenged me to give over and above what my tithe was at the time. Of course I had no idea how I was going to pull this off – I have a young business that was just getting on its feet (so no spare cash lying around), and I had just got engaged and realised that a wedding was going…

Church is my home

Twenty two years it took, before my restless, wild and ever curious heart found its home. An autumn leaf caught on gusts of wind, swept through storms and left on muddy pathways it fluttered seeking destination. An answer to seemingly impossible questions – hope, direction, belonging, where to be found? The world is a big and fearsome place when walked without a path, navigated alone or traipsed without a teacher. Yet, in the midst of the deluge of confusion, carrying burdens…