A Long Time No Talk….

So let me make an apology for not writing a blog in a while! I have been extremely busy and things have been just crazy here.  How about an update on whats been going on, shall we?

Let’s begin with the most recent…The last five days have been a blast! This last week Hillsong had Colour Your World 2008, which is a conference for woman, kinda like Promise Keepers. I had the job of doing Headcount for the whole thing. We had just over 16,000 woman from 37 countries at the Acer Arena! It was amazing! And I was able to sit in during most of the sessions because I was just counting the woman…heaps of fun! Then straight after Colour, Sunday night we had our live album recording for the new Hillsong album being released in July. Let me tell you, you have to buy this album! It’s over 16,000 church members coming together to lift the Name of Our God and praise Him, unified as one. Also a side note, United’s new I Heart. album has just been released here and is available online at Hillsong.com. It’s a compilation of 2 CD’s of live worship that United recorded during their tours over the last few years. This is also a must buy! It has many of the older songs, but completely different as they are from all around the world.

Now enough about all that. I have recently been thinking about staying here another year. God has been doing heaps of incredible things in my life and I reckon another year could only do me better! However, the finance side of things hinders me from doing another year. But I know a big God who has huge plans for me! Money is not an issue for my God!

Oh I almost forgot to tell you guys, I randomly switched my studies from Pastoral to Counseling. I believe doing counseling can only enhance my ability to really help people and so on…plus I want to figure whats wrong with me as well! lol.

Well I think that’s all for now! I will do my best to keep writing blogs to keep you all updated! Please keep me in your prayers as things have been difficult lately, to say the least. But God is freaking awesome and his plans are way bigger than mine are and ever could be! Thank you for your continual prayer and support!

Tyler

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+612 8399 3253

New Years Eve!

Okay everyone I am making quite the claim here, but Sydney definatly knows how to celebrate New Years! Me and my friend Steve went down into the city in Circular Quay (the harbour) and saw literally millions of people all gathere to watch these fireworks. We both thought that since there was SO many people the show has to be good. There was two shows, one at nine and the other at twelve. The nine one was crazy good, but the twelve o’ clock one was freaking amazing…the best firework show I have ever seen in my life. The fireworks off the bridge were insane, but then there were fireworks going off all around us! it was crazy! But yeah it was cool walking around the harbour in my shorts, t-shirt and flip-flops…its was so hot out there…but anyway enough of my bragging, send me and email or comments about your New Years Eve, I’d love to hear about it!

Me, Myself, and I

Do you like yourself? After years of trying to help people emotionally, mentally, spiritually and socially, it was a major breakthrough when I discovered that most people really don’t like themselves. Some of them know it, while others don’t even have a clue that this is probably the root of so many other problems in their lives.

God wants us to have great relationships, but self-rejection and even self-hatred are the roots of many relationship problems. In fact, I’ve found the Bible to be a book about relationships, providing valuable advice about my relationship with God, other people and even myself.

How are the relationships with other people in your life? What about your relationship with God…and even with yourself?

Did it ever occur to you that you have a relationship with yourself? While I’ve never given it much thought, I spend more time with myself than with anyone, and it’s vital to get along well with me. Remember, you are the one person you never get away from.

We all know how agonizing it is to work day after day with someone we don’t get along with, but at least that person doesn’t come home with us at night. We can’t get away from ourselves, not even for one second, so it’s of the utmost importance that we have peace with ourselves.

Many of us fall prey to self-rejection because we feel that nobody really loves us or accepts us. We figure that if nobody else loves us, then why should we love ourselves? Because we think others don’t love us, we feel that we must not be worth loving. But that’s a LIE we’ve believed for way too long!

We should love ourselves—not in a selfish, self-centered way that produces a lifestyle of self-indulgence, but in a balanced, godly way that affirms God’s creation as essentially good and right. We may be flawed by unfortunate experiences we’ve gone through, but that doesn’t mean we’re worthless and good-for-nothing.

We must have the kind of love for ourselves that says, “I know God loves me, so I can love what God chooses to love. I don’t love everything I do, but I accept myself because God accepts me.” We must develop the kind of mature love that says, “I know I need to change, and I want to change. In fact, I believe God is changing me daily, but during this process, I will not reject what God accepts. I’ll accept myself as I am right now, knowing that I will not always remain this way.”

Many times people who reject themselves do so because they can’t see themselves as good, proper, or right. They fail to see themselves the way God sees them—as precious children He dearly loves.

As you begin to see yourself through God’s eyes—someone who’s loved and cherished—your view of yourself will begin to change. You’ll begin to see yourself not as rejected, but as loved and accepted…unique and beautiful in His sight.

This passage was an article from a Hillsong Bulletin.

Merry Christmas!!!

So its Christmas now…yeah! I get to have a Christmas breakfast with some Brazilians and then hopefully go to the beach (if the weather stays nice). So here in Australia its sunny and hot out. Last night my flatmate Steve and I grilled hamburgers outside thinking that it should be snowing. Why no snow? This is not Christmas without snow. What the heck! (yes, we were both thinking that exact thing, both of us, at the exact same time…amazing.)

anyway, I just  wanted to stop and say that I’m probably going to go to the beach and I’ll be thinking of you all back home as I get a nice tan and swim in 6 ft. waves…ah so much fun! Anyway love and miss you all and I really do hope no one feels lonely this Christmas! Merry Christmas (the Aussies say Happy Christmas as well…its not happy, its MERRY! but thats a whole nother blog for another day. ah who am I kidding, I’m not going to write one about that…thats stupid. goodnight everyone!)

Broken Hearts II

Everyone has a story. Everyone has had good, and not so good, things happen to them. Everyone has a reason why they are at the place in life they are at now. Did you know that there is someone out there thats loves and cares about you? I know it sounds cheesy and cliche, but its true.  Are you looking for someone to talk to, to just listen to you and not necessarily talk back, or someone who will subtly let you find the answers yourself, or someone to just tell you that they don’t have any answers for you? I think everyone knows what at least one of these feels like, and if you don’t, hate to break it to you, but your day is coming. Listen I know this is going to sound crazy and unbelievable but God is there for you. He always has been. Have you ever thought that God was away or hiding or just not listening to you or that He just doesn’t care.  How about the alternative. Maybe its you hiding. I know I have been. I’m not hiding anymore. God loves me, and He loves you. I know its crazy and what not, but man just try talking to Him. He’ll listen. He’ll give you hope. I once thought that God could possibly not care about me or even know me me but he freaking does! God is huge! Way bigger than any of us could ever imagine. He knows you inside and out. He knows the number of hairs on your head…freaky, I know. God wouldn’t be God if we could understand Him or figure Him out. Just give Him a shot, He gave you one or two…He’s given me more than I can count. Just talk to Him, He’s there. He’ll listen. And if all else fails, He won’t. And if you feel like He did, try having faith in yourself…that seems to help me. Anyway, feel free to write me with any questions or comments. I don’t have all the answers, but sometimes I need to just talk to someone, even if they are a complete stranger.  Be Blessed and we’ll talk soon.

Beautiful Day

Hello all! Okay so I know my last blog post was a bit depressing, sorry about that! I am now doing quite well. This weekend I moved into a new, much bigger apartment which truly was a gift from God and yeah, I really like it! I am also now officially finished with my first semester of college which went by crazy quickly. Oh and I finally went to the beach on Monday which was fantastic! I was able to  swim in some massive waves because a storm was coming from the ocean so it was pretty much a amazing, including the huge storm we got to be in with a nice cup of Cafe Mocha.

I also have this pretty awesome family that has been crazy supportive of me and my life here in Australia. I was able to talk to some of the guys last Friday (Thursday for you guys) and that was cool cause I haven’t talked to them in a while.

Also, as many of you probably already know by now, and for many of you this may be a surprise, or not one at all, but there is this amazing girl back home that I am absolutely crazy about and she has been nothing but supportive of me being out here. Kim and I started talking again a few months ago and God has been doing crazy stuff in and through our relationship. At first we both thought it was kinda crazy pursuing a relationship again, especially being half way around the world from each other, but God has given us the okay and we both think its good and its crazy exciting as well. Please keep us in your prayers as we are pursuing a new healthy relationship. We are going to do it right and smart this time! Thank you all!

So thats pretty much whats been going on! I’d love to here from you all how things are going in your lives and and whats new and so forth! Cheers and Blessings

Tyler

tyler.ulrich@yahoo.com

This Day

Hello everyone. I’m just going to be honest in this post. I’m feeling crappy and I miss home. I spent most if my day today talking to my family and friends, but man do I miss home. I mis everything about it. Here, well, for some reason I honestly don’t feel like I belong here. There’s no where for me to just jump and fit in anywhere. Yeah I’m doing and experiencing amazing stuff but really it wouldn’t be the same without my family and friends whatsoever. I know God has His hand in all of this and I know He will lift me up in due time, just right now it kinda sucks being away from you all! At that, you guys are still continuously in my prayers, please continue to keep me in yours. I’ll post a good update on things later this week, hopefully sooner than later  Cheers for Australia

 Tyler

Life…yeah its good!

Yes I know its been a little while since my last post. I have been crazy busy lately and have seen God do some sweet things. Over the last couple of weeks my life has taken a few cool turns; some major, and some not so major. Perhaps I will let you all know of them soon. However, for now I cannot disclose much information at this time. I all can say is that the major one could use heaps of prayer. I know some of you like to pray for specific things, but here’s the thing, God already knows whats needed anyway. If there is one specific thing though, please pray that I let God continue to be in control of the situation and that I do my part to keep it real. Get it? That’d be awesome! You all are fantastic!

 Okay now so here’s a quick update: Work is rockin. I now officially have almost twenty hours per week, which is all I’m really allowed at this time so praise God for that! Also I just finished my assignments and exams for the semester and I am now done for the summer! Yeah! College continues for about another three weeks, but that’s all just lectures pretty much so yippy! Impact Kids has also been crankin well. A few of us wrote a song for the kids and performed it yesterday for the first time. The kids absolutely loved it! I am now currently working a another song. Hopefully soon I will be posting these songs being written soon so that you can all hear them and still feel somewhat in the loop. Cool? I go back into the studio Wednesday so we shall see what we can do about that. So other than that, I think that’s probably all that’s been going on. This summer I’ll actually be taking pictures of my fun-filled adventures, so then you can see what it like chillin in the wonderful land of OZ (and no, not Kansas. That’s a short way of saying Australia apparently. I don’t know, it doesn’t make much sense to me either.) So anyway I’m keeping you all in my prayers, please keep me in yours! Be blessed, as to be a blessing to others, which will inherently bring you more than you received in the first place; doesn’t make sense, I know, but trust me, that’s like a law of physics or something. Anyway…we’ll talk soon. Peace.

 Tyler

Nursing Home Drama Tour 2007!!!

Alright so my roomate Cory and I, along with a great team of college student friends, have been working on a play/musical called Found, and tomarrow we are performing it for the first time! Over the next two days we are visiting 6 nursing homes to perform the play and, through the play, hopefully, Mr. Holy Spirit will get a move on and get some people saved, which we are completely believing in Him for! So if you all could keep us in your prayers the next couple of days, that’d be awesome! Pray that we will perform well, but most importantly that God will touch the hearts of these people we are visiting! Thanks!

Oh and if you are wondering what the play/musical is all about: It takes place in the 40’s, I believe, during some war time. There is a wonderful love scene, dramatic war scene, and the gospel presented in a creative way! Sounds pretty awesome, huh? So again prayer is a good thing and I’m keeping you all in my prayers as well! Be blessed and we’ll talk soon, hopefully!

Unplanned Ministry

Alright ya’ll so today was a rockin day. Quite stressful at first, but eh, I learned God could really care less at the moment! Let me explain. Today was Impact Kids. We had to start the regular program a little later than usual because our wonderful drivers were late, again. But like I said, not really that big of a deal in the whole scheme of things. Worship was awesome good. Most of the kids actually participated, which is a miricle in of itself, and we even got to sing “How Great is Our God” with the older kids, which we have never really been able to pull off with that age group. But the Spirit moved so thank you Lord! In the younger age group the kids encountered God as well. A few of them invited Jesus into thier hearts! Yes! The leader up front asked the kids if they could feel Him. The kid that was almost on my lap full of excitement that he was now a Christian and told me “I can feel Him Tyler!” I asked the little boy what it felt like, and he told me “It feels like a tickle…like this!” and then proceded to try tickling me!

 At work today was pretty awesome as well. I was so stoked from what happened this morning that I kinda just took it to work with me! Later in the day one of my co-workers from Hong-Kong was acting quite strange, seeming like she was not very happy and in pain. I asked what was up and she told me that she had a massive headache. So right then I looked straight at her and mumbled under my breath, “Be healed in Jesus name! Headache, be gone in Jesus Name!” Five minutes later — due to a small rush of bread-hungry customers – I asked her how the headache was. She smiled and simply said that it was gone and she felt great. I asked her if she knew why it just disappeared like that, and she said it was the small drink of water. “You know what I think it was?” I asked. ”What if I told you that I prayed that your headache would be gone, and God took care of it for you?” “That’s impossible!” she replied. “You didn’t do that cross thing from your forhead to chest then shoulders!” I laughed and then we had a wonderful conversation about God and my everyday prayer life and stuff. It really turned into a question-and-answer session, which I’m alright with. I believe God sparked something in that girl!

 So all in all, today was a good day, because God made it good! Thank you Lord for everything you did today…and more, because I know you did more than just that, You are WAY big! Ah You are so awesome! Thanks.