I went to Colour Conference last week. The attendance was amazing, thousands of women from around the globe were in Acer Arena, it’s the largest indoor venue in Australia. The conference started Thursday night for the opening celebration and continued on the next 2 days.

Colour Women Conference is an annual event hosted by Hillsong Church, primarily by Bobbie Houston. It is my first time to attend and the experience is empowering as Louie Giglio, J. John, Priscilla Shirer, and Marilyn Skinner talks about God and womanhood along with Bobbie.

Louie Giglio, who from the very beginning admitted how he loves science, described God as a star-breather God, Creator of the Universe. He presented some slides showing largest stars in the galaxies, stars that are unimaginably-way larger than the Sun. He effectively described how small we are but how huge our God is, with just a tiny glimpse of Him, of His glory can change our lives.

Another special guest speaker is J. John. I love J. John, his sense of humour is superb. He resembles a little with Mr. Bean, a very very funny guy. I remember how women can’t stop laughing over his jokes and stories that even have been told for a while, they just burst into laugh all of a sudden.

Anyway, he talks about being a christian and having a valid passport to God’s Kingdom. When he was mentioning about the word “Christian” without the word “Christ”, I thought he’ll gonna say the old thing with “ian” stands for “I am nothing”, but he said “Ian doesn’t gonna help you” haha that’s a new one.

One of the things he shared is when someone asked him to prove that God exists. He shared that there are 3 types of knowledge, one is logical or rational where you use your logical reasoning to explain things, another one is scientific knowledge where you study or do experiment over things and learn, and there is a personal knowledge that comes from your personal encounters. So he was trying to say that you don’t explain God to prove He exists but experience God.

Then come Priscilla Shirer, she’s a motivational speaker from what I can tell. She is an amazing speaker with a good sense of humour and honesty. You know how participants got all their pens out and notebooks to write some key points, I tried to do the same for some time but can’t keep up, I’m missing more of the things she talks about when I’m taking notes so I just paid attention to her.

The most important message I got from her is that our awareness of God’s presence can make a difference and can empower us to stand out from the crowd just like what happened to the sinful woman in Luke 7:36-50 when she learned that Jesus is eating at the Pharisee’s house in the same town where she was. When “she learned”, as empasized by Priscilla, is what makes the difference to compel her to step up and do something beyond expectations of everybody else in the house.

Another special guest speaker is Marilyn Skinner. Everytime I hear her name, all I can think of is Uganda. Marilyn and Gary Skinner, had an incredible and inspiring journey in building a church in Uganda. Marilyn gave a praise report for what’s happening in Uganda. The entire time she’s talking about Uganda becoming a better place to live again and how their projects and charities have been favored by God, her joy is overflowing, she’s glowing inside. You’ll sense so much intensity of joy and humility. And I am truly happy for her and Uganda.

While I was still there and the conference is nearing to end, I felt some sort of excitement, how am I gonna be in the real world after the conference, and some sort of wondering about my life too and how God want me to live it. Am I doing good? or just alright? or am I missing it?

For whatever has planted in me during the conference, I hope I’d be driven to know more about God and live my life with purpose more than for myself. Well having thoughts about these things is one thing, but doing something about it is more challenging

Here are some photos from the conference.