On the 20th of February I visited a Sunday Morning Service at Hillsong Brisbane. It was a big Church, not unlike my own Church. It was very similar to my Church except it was a bit more multicultural. It was a plain, modern church with cameras to record the sermon, had a stage with all of the professional instruments, lights and big projector screens. The people usually met up outside the church and greeted each other as they made their way into the main auditorium and they were very friendly. When everyone was seated, or a set time, they sung praise and worship, with a small choir and a band, as well as about 8 singers. Praise and Worship went for about 6 - 10 songs and after that was a whole church prayer, which was probably a replacement for prayer requests. After that was tithes and offerings while watching a video of where the money was going to, followed by a prayer for those tithes. They showed a video of where the tithes were going, which was a few small teams of flood relief volunteers to rebuild houses and clean up from the floods. After that was a few other videos about "Sisterhood", a girls only church and a video about Bear Grylls coming to Hillsong (Neglecting to mention that it was in Sydney, because I thought he was coming to Hillsong Brisbane). After that the main sermon started, the pastor was a guest from Mumbai, India. The church ended with one of those alter-calls where you closed your eyes and people who needed to get prayed for raised their hands. The main pastor of Hillsong prayed for them and then for the church. Then the musicians played music while the people left. Hillsong Brisbane is a pentecostal. The pentecostal movement broke out of the holiness movement about 100 years ago. Hillsong Brisbane was founded by Reginald Klimionok and later bought by the current pastors, Brian and Bobbie Houston. All in all, Hillsong was a bit different from my church and very opposite to the Catholic Church.
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