I attended the Hillsong Conference for the first time this year. If you don't know about Hillsong Church, here's a brief history and an idea of what they do. Hillsong is a Pentecostal church, founded by Brian and Bobbie Houston in 1983 in Sydney, Australia. The church has branches in cities in 19 countries, spanning five continents. It has an average global attendance of about 100,000 people weekly. It is well known for being a modern, forward-thinking church, and is hugely different from the traditional image most people hold of church. I had long heard about Hillsong, but only started attending one of their network churches, The Junction Church (with campuses in Loughborough and Leicester. It's an incredible church if you're going to be a student at one of these universities), last year, when I began university. What's great about Hillsong is that it has developed so well in unison with the trends of the western world, whilst upholding and standing f...