A song in Anaheim

The famous Christian music group Hillsong United will be playing at Encounter Friday the 21st (tonight) and Saturday the 22nd in Anaheim, CA at the Anaheim Convention Center. The idea of this event is “to encounter our God”. The heart of Hillsong seems evident in the fact that they play their music for the Lord and wish to help others achieve a level of worship and commitment to the Lord through their songs as well as their attitudes.

This event is designed specifically to pastors, youth leaders, musicians, and worship leaders, as well as students committed to leading their church through personal example. This conference is designed to equip and train-up leaders in the church despite their age. There will be teaching from scripture, incredible worship times, as well as a general sense of growth toward becoming more involved in your local church.

The Hillsong United group, originally from Australian based Hillsong Chruch, has been producing CD’s since 1992 and has been putting on conferences since 1986. They are a lively rock style, worship group that have had their songs played in churches across the United States as well as other countries. Their commitment to solid, Christian lyrics as well as catchy and easily sung melodies has also helped the spread of their music. A few popular songs by Hillsong you may recognize are Hosanna, From The Inside Out, and Mighty To Save.

Though it may be too late for you to attend this wonderful conference, it is definitely something to look for in the future! The Anaheim Conference center hosts many Christian events and if you catch them in time you can great deals on pre-sale tickets! Check back here for more great suggestions on future conferences as well as concerts as they come near us.

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Hillsong Live Faith+Hope+Love CD, DVD To Release August 4

Integrity Music announces the August 4th U.S. release of Faith+Hope+Love, the latest CD and DVD from Sydney, Australia's Hillsong Live.
The Faith+Hope+Love recording features Hillsong worship team members Darlene Zschech, Joel Houston, Brooke Ligertwood and Dove Award winning writer Reuben Morgan. Together with Andrew Crawford, Houston and Morgan also co-produced the album.

The CD features 13 live tracks including new music such as the Top 10 iTunes single "You Hold Me Now co-written by Morgan, winner of the 2009 Dove Award for Worship Song of the Year (Mighty to Save). Other stand-outs include His Glory Appears written by Darlene Zschech and Marty Sampson;It's Your Love penned by Mia Fieldes and The Wonder Of Your Love, penned by the Hillsong's Sampson and guest writers Jack Mooring and Leeland Mooring.
The Faith+Hope+Love companion DVD offers live video of each song plus documentary footage. In addition, Faith+Hope+Love worship resources, including CD trax, a songbook and a digital songbook, will be available October 9.

Hillsong Music is a ministry of the Sydney-based Hillsong Church, Australia's largest evangelical congregation with sister churches in London, Paris, Kiev and South Africa. With churches across the globe singing their songs, and sales of over five million units in the U.S. alone, Hillsong Music is one of the world's leading producers of praise and worship music and resources.

Track list (including writers/ featured worship leader):
1. The First And The Last writers Joel Houston, Reuben Morgan / features Joel Houston
2. For Your Name writers Jad Gillies, Joel Houston, Reuben Morgan / features Gillies
3. Glow writers Matt Crocker, Joel Houston / features David Ware
4. It's Your Love - writer Mia Fieldes / features Darlene Zschech
5. I Will Exalt You- writer Brooke Ligertwood / features Ligertwood
6. Yahweh - writer Reuben Morgan / features David Ware
7. No Reason To Hide - writers Matt Crocker, Joel Houston / features Houston
8. God One And Only - writers Jonathon Douglass, Sam Knock / features Douglass
9. The Wonder Of Your Love - writers Jack Mooring, Leeland Mooring, Marty Sampson / features Zschech
10. His Glory Appears - writers Mary Sampson, Darlene Zschech / features Brooke Ligertwood
11. We The Redeemed - writer Jill McCloghry / features McCloghry
12. We Will See Him - writers Robert Fergusson, Reuben Morgan / features Morgan
13. You Hold Me Now - writers Matt Crocker, Reuben Morgan / features Jad Gillies

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Hillsong sings faith, hope and love in next live worship album

There are only a few days to go until Hillsong releases its latest live worship album, Faith+Hope+Love, on Monday 6 July.

Faith+Hope+Love was recorded live in March 2009, over three weekends and locations in Sydney. Led by the Hillsong worship team including Hillsong United, Darlene Zschech and Reuben Morgan, this album features 13 songs o faith in the midst of personal circumstances, hope in Jesus for the future, and love – one for another.

Joel Houston, Worship Pastor at Hillsong said, "In 2009 we’re going all out, we’re taking a new approach and it involves everyone one of us. It involves you!

"So get it in your spirit now to expect an encounter with our Creator and Saviour like we’ve never seen or experienced.

"Expect the unexpected and let’s together believe that whatever gets captured will ultimately break down walls and breathe the light, love and freedom of Christ into people’s circumstances all over the earth."

Faith+Hope+Love will be available on CD, priced £14.99, and DVD, priced £17.99. A Faith+Hope+Love Music book, priced £13.99, and CD-Rom music book, priced £13.99, are also available.

Hillsong United: New album review

Hillsong United, not to be confused with Hillsong, has released a brand new album titled, A_CROSS// The EARTH: Tear Down the Walls. The album as a whole is what you would typically expect from the guys at United. Is it their best work to date? That is debatable. However, there are two tracks that rise above the rest.

Some songs on the album, such as "Desert Song" and "Your Name High," have been borrowed from the "mother band" (Hillsong). Other songs that can only be described as "epic" are, the title track "Tear Down the Walls" and "You Hold Me Now." "Tear Down the Walls" seems, lyrically, to be everything that the band has been trying to get across to their listeners since the beginning. It's a compilation of desires, prayers, and God's children crying out for redemption. Located just after midway through the album, the song is placed perfectly for a great transition into the hymn-melodic track "Soon." Not to mention, the track lasts for nearly ten and a half minutes. So, taking into account the length, the conviction based lyrics, and the number of dynamics, "Soon" is a breathe of fresh air.

Neither Hillsong nor United have a lot of songs based on Heaven. "You Hold Me Now" is definitely icing on the cake for this album. It's not typical "Hillsong style" but it gives this album that little something extra. "No weeping, no hurt or pain/ No suffering/ You hold me now, You hold me now/ No darkness no sick or lame/ No hiding/ You hold me now, You hold me now." These lyrics are only made greater when being sung by the entire Hillsong congregation at the end of the track. One more successful album for Hillsong United, despite the predictable song structures. That's another story for another time.

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Hillsong United's New Album at #2 on iTunes

Australian-based Christian rock/worship band Hillsong United has earned the #2 spot on the iTunes Top Album Charts for its just released CD A Cross The Earth:Tear Down The Walls. The album sits just behind Eminem's new CD Relapse, which is at #1.

"For a band that is virtually unknown outside the Christian culture to be selling more than Green Day and Lady Gaga and almost as many as Eminem on iTunes, it says something about United's amazing trajectory as an impact artist beyond just the Christian music scene," says Chris Estes, Director of Digital Marketing for Integrity Music, the label that distributes United in the U.S. in a press release. "And, they did all this without traditional industry drivers like heavy radio play and mainstream TV. Not only do they sell out major venues, churches around the world are singing their songs every Sunday."

My first thought was that it's a little ironic to have a Christian band with an album #2 in the nation, and yet still be "virtually unknown outside the Christian culture." I mean, wouldn't it be great if the message of Hillsong United and this album - Jesus Christ, compassion, social justice - was being heard in every corner of the market? Isn't that kind of what we're supposed to be doing, sharing the gospel and preaching Jesus to every corner of the globe, not preaching to the choir?

I'm not faulting Hillsong United, just questioning the reality that oftentimes the very things the world needs to hear are kept under wraps in the Christian culture. It's not Hillsong's fault. It's just the by-product of our commercialized subculture.

Now through August, Hillsong United is playing to capacity crowds, including sell-outs at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, the Roseland Ballroom in New York and the Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre in Atlanta. Remaining shows are:

5/27 Atlanta, Ga.
5/29 Birmingham, Ala.
5/30 Nashville, Tenn.
6/1 Washington, D.C.
6/2 Boston, Mass.
6/3 Virginia Beach, Va.
6/5 New York
6/6 Toronto
6/8 Grand Rapids, Mich.
6/9-10 Chicago (Willow Creek Conference)
8/21-22 Los Angeles (Encounterfest)
8/24 Denver, Colo.
8/25 Dallas
8/28-29 Miami (Encounterfest)

Updated tour details for Hillsong United can be found at the Hillsong United website.

U.S. Fans Make Australian Rock Band Hillsong United A Bonafide Grassroots Sensation

a_CROSS//the_EARTH: Tear Down The WallsROCKETS TO #2 ON U.S. iTUNES TOP
ALBUMS CHART

Contemporary Christian Rock Band Sells Out Atlanta-Area 12,000-Seat
Verizon Amphitheatre on Current North American Tour

NEW YORK, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- American fans of Hillsong United, the
Australian rock band, are building a grassroots bonfire under the group
as a_CROSS//the_EARTH: Tear Down The Walls, the band's newly released
live album, rockets its way to the #2 position on the U.S. iTunes Top
Albums chart.

A musical dark horse on the iTunes chart, a_CROSS//the_EARTH: Tear Down
The Walls catapulted over mainstream competition last week from Adam
Lambert, Keith Urban, Green Day and Lady GaGa.

Fans have been generating standing-room-only ticket sales for Hillsong
United on the North American leg of the group's
a_CROSS//the_EARTHSpring Tour 2009 (please see itinerary following). On
Wednesday night (May 27), Hillsong United sold-out the 12,000 seat
Verizon Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Georgia, just outside Atlanta,
delighting their ecstatic fans with an evening's worth of electrifying
spirit-filled rock presented in an astounding concert environment of
state-of-the-art light and sound.

Hillsong United is the music-making world-touring youth ministry of the
Hillsong Church, a pentecostal congregation located in Sydney,
Australia. Featuring Brooke Ligertwood and other charismatic worship
leaders and performers, Hillsong United host Encounter, an annual youth
conference, in the U.S. each summer, drawing thousands of fans from
across the country. This year's Encounter conferences will take place
at the Anaheim Convention Center (August 21-22) and the University of
Miami (August 28-29). For more details, please visit
www2.hillsong.com/united/#/encounter.

The Hillsong Church produced its first praise and worship CD, The Power
of Your Love, in 1992. The first Hillsong United release, the four-song
EP One, was released in 1998 and bundled with the annual Hillsong live
album. Since those humble beginnings, more than 6 million Hillsong CDs,
DVDs and other branded units have sold in the United States, with
Hillsong United selling more than 560,000 pieces in the U.S.

a_CROSS//the_EARTH: Tear Down The Walls, the latest in a line of live
Hillsong United albums beginning with 1999's Everyday, has been drawing
rave reviews:

Kevin Davis, writing for the Christian Music Review, called the album
"...a must have for your praise and worship collection."

Andree Farias, in Christian Music Today, found "...a combination of
stadium-sized praise rockers and ballads..." in the album while noting
that "Hillsong United goes back to their old ways with energy and
passion....In case you've been living under a rock, take heed: Hillsong
United is the biggest youth worship band on the planet."

"Hillsong United return with their first live CD recording since 2006,"
wrote Leigh DeVore in Charisma magazine. "a_CROSS//the_EARTH: Tear Down
The Walls features 12 songs, including 11 new tracks, in Hillsong
United's signature power, pop-rock worship melodies. The crowd stays
involved on this rousing CD, with its good mix of feet-stomping tracks
and heart-moving ballads....Hillsong United continue to usher crowds
into the presence of God with energetic, faith-building songs. Fans
will be so glad to hear them again...."


   Hillsong United - U.S. Tour dates
   Fri 5/29          Birmingham, AL        The Basement at Cathedral of the
                                            Cross
   Sat 5/30          Nashville, TN         Curb Event Center
   Mon 6/1           Columbia, MD          Merriweather Post Pavillion
   Tue 6/2           Ocean Grove, NJ       Great Auditorium
   Wed 6/3           Virginia Beach, VA    Wave Church
   Fri 6/5           New York, NY          Roseland Ballroom (sold-out)
   Sat 6/6           Toronto, Ont.         Christian Heritage Day
   Tue-Wed 6/9-10    Chicago, IL           Willow Creek Conference
   Fri-Sat 8/21-22   Los Angeles, CA       Hillsong United Encounter - LA
   Fri-Sat 8/28-29   Miami, FL             Hillsong United Encounter - Miami

www.hillsongunited.com

www.IntegrityLive.com

www.columbiarecords.com

SOURCE Integrity/Columbia Records

Hillsong Men's Conference

MEN'S CONFERENCE
Hillsong Convention Centre
November 6-7 , 2009

A conference designed especially for men! With your host Brian Houston and special guests...

You never knew 24 hours could so radically impact your life!


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Hillsong Conference 09

HILLSONG CONFERENCE
ACER Arena; 7-10 July, 2009

New horizons & new opportunities demand fresh approach. We have already strategised 2009 & are shaping a new, compacted, innovative & anointed conference.

* Three days & four nights
* Limited seating
* Only one night rally each evening
* More equipping than ever with stronger options

This will be a better experience for you!

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COLOUR YOUR WORLD CONFERENCE

SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
26-28 March & 30 March-1 April, 2009

Colour Your World women's conference exists to place value upon womanhood. For 12 years we have seen multiplied thousands of women impacted, but the journey has only just begun. As this conference comes of age and we enter a whole new era, IMAGINE what one company of women, united and devoted, could accomplish. IMAGINE Colour 2009 in the ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE!

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Hillsong rocks Zambia

Lusaka. — Watching Australia's rock and worship band, Hillsong United, perform live-in concert last week, it was evident from the start that Zambians have been getting a raw deal from some local and international artistes who have performed in front of them.

Despite being a mid-week ministry concert held in the capital, Lusaka, on a showery Tuesday evening, hundreds of youths filled the open spaces of the showgrounds to attend what can now be easily described as among the best concerts ever held on the Zambian soil in recent years.
As advertised, the one-off show began a few minutes after 18:00 hours, with impressive performances from local gospel artistes, Stan Chipuma and Ephraim Mutalange, the recent winner of the Inaugural Christian Gospel Arts promotions (Chapro) 2008 awards.
However, it was Hillsongs, an 18-member band that sent the crowd screaming when they stepped onto the stage. For any fan of live-performances, judging by the massive stage and equipment, it was easy to tell, that the sound was going to be like nothing ever heard in Zambia before.

And finally, when the stage was lit into bright reds, blues and greens, the drums struck, and the guitars started strumming, blended by soulful voices, the atmosphere was simply mesmerising.
For an audience, whose only experience with rock gospel music has been on radio and television, it was interesting to see the locals bouncing around to the music.

Unlike past performances by any other international artiste, the lyrics, especially to the popular songs 'All I need is you", 'Look to you', 'Hosanna' and 'what the Lord has done in me', provided on the projectors, ensured that the spectators were completely engaged in the music, singing to every song.

It was no wonder that even when Hillsongs Youth Pastor Chrishan Jeyaratman, gave a sermon, every one seemed attentive. His message on 'Love' and a call for people to 'engage' in helping those that are unfortunate was timely. read more

Hillsong united concert “rocked” !

WORLD acclaimed award-winning music group, Hillsong United, this week put up a larger than life performance at the Lusaka Showgrounds where thousands of Christian faithfuls braved the showering evening for four hours of praise and worship.

The K20,000-per-head show, initially scheduled to run from 18:00 hours to 20:00 hours, started around 19:00 hours and went on and on until a few minutes before mid-night, as fans kept shouting for more from the band that has distinguished itself as an all-encompassing gospel group.

The venue was filled to capacity with only small portions remaining at the far end of the field, where it was darker.

Literally, every available space was taken up, and just a few minutes after the start of the show, the VIP gate was closed and patrons that had initially bought the tickets in advance had to end up using the main arena gate.

During the show, the group belted several popular tunes such as Everyday, We look to You, Hosanna, and Amazing Grace.

The audience danced their lungs out, raised hands in adoration and bowed knees in worship as the song leaders churned out one tune after the other.

It was an all-inspiring night that did not need one to know the lyrics of the song in order to sing along. read more