Touring can be tedious at times!  Hours of travel, fast food, sickness, being away from family and general life stuff. However, when you finish the tour, look back and see all the people that have found the love of Jesus, or those that we’re influenced to love God and people more,  it all is SO worth it.

New Zealand is like a second home to us now.  We have been going there for the past 3 years straight, and every time it just gets better and better.  The relationships that have come out of it are unreal. Kiwi’s rock! It’s awesome to see Churches that are moving forward and going from strength to strength. Ultimately, it’s an honour to be a part of what God is doing over in the land of the sheep!

Some highlights of this tour would defiantly begin with the Parachute Festival.  Besides microphones not being plugged into front of house, no sound check time, crazy bucketing rain, we LOVE what Parachute represents and who they are as people.  There is such a buzz, such a hunger within the boundary lines of the festival for God, fun & food!  Probably one of the best festivals in the world.

I would probably have to say our favorite highlight of any tour is hanging with our team on such an intimate level.  We have the best group of guys that we travel with.  Such servant hearts, dedicated to God and fulfilling the calling that’s on their life.  They give up so much to come on these tours and we honour them for that. They rock!

We love NZ! Can’t wait for next year 2011. Yew!

Nothin’ but BIG love

Aaron & Becky

We’re packing our bags, de-tuning our guitars, and flying over to New Zealand! We love visiting New Zealand, I got excited and researched some facts… Captain James Cook was the first explorer to set foot on NZ soil in 1769 and now it has a population of 4 million. Major religion = Christianity (yew!), and some of the most beautiful landscape you will find across the globe!

We’re all stoked to hit up the Parachute Festival this weekend. Such a good vibe! One thing about Kiwi’s is they love to worship. This will be our second time playing at the festival and we are so honoured to be apart of this year’s huge lineup. Switchfoot, Leeland, Hillsong United, Family Force 5 and so many more.
After Parachute Festival, Citipointe Live will be staying for another week in NZ. Unfortunately, only on the north island this time. We will be hitting up a few more churches, doing some training master classes and leading worship.

Touring is great and playing music is defiantly second to none, especially when you’re so passionate about it. However, that’s not the main reason we travel. Our heart is to see the church worldwide strengthened and equipped to impact this planet! Our Senior Pastor, Mark Ramsey, says “We exist to unmistakeably influence our world for good and for God!” Therefore, if we can bring good by imparting who we are and what we’ve learned and experienced then hey, the Church will be stronger!

Can’t wait!
Much love,

Aaron

NZ NORTH ISLAND 2010 TOUR DATES

FRI JAN 29TH
PARACHUTE FESTIVAL – MYSTERY CREEK, HAMILTON NZ
WHERE – PALLADIUM STAGE
TIME – 8 20PM

SUN JAN 31ST
PARACHUTE FESTIVAL – MYSTERY CREEK, HAMILTON NZ
WHERE – MAIN STAGE
TIME – 6 35PM

WED FEB 3RD
ELIM CHRISTIAN CENTRE – HOWICK, NZ
“ULTIMATE WORSHIPER MASTERCLASS”
7.30 – 9.30PM

THURS FEB 4TH
THE EQUIP CHURCH – WHANGERAI, NZ
“ULTIMATE WORSHIPER MASTERCLASS”
7.00 – 9.30PM

FRI FEB 5TH
ELIM CHRISTIAN CENTRE – HOWICK, NZ
“OXYGEN” YOUTH
8 00 – 10 00PM

SAT FEB 6TH
HOUSE OF BREAKTHROUGH – GISBORNE, NZ
“ULTIMATE WORSHIPER MASTERCLASS”
1 30 – 7 30PM

SUN FEB 7TH
CITY IMPACT CHURCH – BROWNS BAY/NORTH SHORE, NZ
SUNDAY PM SERVICE
7 00PM

On our recent trip to Cambodia we documented what we saw, felt & experienced together as a team. We’ve cut these into 5 webisodes to be released over January. We invite you to view these mini-docos over on the project cambodia page. We hope these are reflective & inspiring…

much love
citipointe live

view the ’cause behind the commission’ webisodes

Parachute Festival touches down in Brisbane in 2010!
These guys know how to throw a party, hosting THE largest christian music festival in the southern hemisphere each year in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Hosted on our home ground at Citipointe Church Brisbane, Parachute Festival Brisbane kicks off with the impressive lineup of Leeland, Family Force 5, New World Son + yours truly.

This will be a sick event – if you love music festivals like AGMF Easterfest, do yourself a favour and get a ticket now… early bird price is 30 bucks from word bookstores!

Parachute Festival Brisbane

Were at the Grove recording this years EP! We decided to do a studio EP this year and were pumped with how its sounding so far.
I think this is what “Heaven” is like! Wake up to an awesome wife, coffee..pancakes..then hit the studio, pick up my guitar and just go for it for 12 hours! This is defs bliss.
Were walking out a dream and creating music that God has put on our hearts. Its an experience to remember in a lifetime and such an honour for us to be given the responsibility.
These songs carry the heart of the church today, pushing down walls and stepping into clarity with what Jesus has commissioned us to do, “go out into all the world and make disciples of all men!” (Matt. 28:18-20)
Its our turn, were ready for all that He has and willing to lay down everything, we are His disciples.
With love
Aaron

Ok so we arrive and I’m freaking out, this place is insane. Love it hey, our studio is in a mexican looking cottage home in the middle of bushlands surrounded by lakes and its crazy inspiring for writing. I love Grove Studios. Looking forward to the quality music that we are about to create for our God its so fun. Latas peeps. Love Chubs (Chardon).

The world as we know it is beautiful, but damaged. The words and melodies of the songs are God inspired and have the power to change hearts and direct them toward a life called by God. When we change – the world changes, that’s why we need the songs of heaven to be written and released. We don’t take lightly the responsibilty, importance, and opportunity to record Gods worship, we thank u God.

Love God and love people.
Forever His
Beck xxx

Hello, hello, hello. After a very long 10-hour drive from Brisbane to Sydney, while witnessing an infant duck being crushed by a motor vehicle and having the mother duck collide with our windshield we have arrived at grove studios. Our engineer josh is a legend and we feel he will really help us capture what we are looking for. This morning our wonderful manager Cathy cooked us up a feast for breakfast, Bacon, eggs, fruit, yoghurt and these fantastic muffins. Its good to eat like kings when trying to record. We finished the drums for two songs today and it’s sounding sick. Tonight we are having another amazing meal cook again by Cathy (THANK YOU CATHY) We are just about to head back into the studio to put down the album intro. It has a bit of oriental influence, I kind of like it. I really believe we are going to capture something special this year as we record this 7-track studio EP. We can feel the presence of God all over it. All right I got to jump back into the studio all our love

Joel+

Beck and I have a huge opportunity this week!

We have been invited to lead worship for the International COC Pastor’s conference in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. First of all the invite is such an honor.

Secondly, it‘s gonna be an incredible experience worshiping with Senior Pastors/leaders from all around the world!

It‘s so good! The underground current of what God is doing in the world is so strong. The gathering of His people, in truth, in love, marching for the answer!

We live in a new era. A new time the world has never seen… and what’s flowing out of our hearts in song, we can’t wait to share with the COC movement this week!

Love it…the best days are yet to come for COC church’s across the globe!

So exciting! Pray with us that God would pour out His spirit this week upon the leaders of this movement!

Much Love,

Aaron and Becky Lucas

Hello, hello, hello. Well New Zealand has been fantastic. We have been from Auckland to Christchurch, then to invercargill, the worlds most southern city except for the southpole. Now we are in Queenstown and it is beautiful. We have met some of the most fantastic people so far. I think New Zealand is in good hands. It has been so good to see people so hungry for god to move in their cities. Also so willing to learn and soak in whatever they can to build the local church, taking the worship in their church to the next level. You have all inspired me, thank you. Aight I’m going to sleep all my love talk soon

Joel +

Hey crew!
We’ve been on the road for almost 2 weeks now.  It’s been incredible to hook up with church’s across NZ. God is defs moving and you guys and gals here in NZ are so passionate for God and people, we were actually just chattin about how your hunger to worship God has been inspiring us to go deeper.  Love your work!
Being on the road is so rewarding, but crazy busy as well.  You have little sleep, drink many latte’s, meet so many people, see so many people connect with God and inspired to go further, and the scenery….wow, its incredible.  We cannot complain about being exposed to some of the most beautiful scenery, some of the best around the world.

We have to rave about our team.
They have gone above and beyond expectation and hilarious!!! The new editions, stu+john snow, have stepped up and helping share the love, leading people into worship. Lovin our team here and at home!!

We’ve hit up so far, Elim church in Botany, Majestic in Christchurch, City Impact in Queenstown and Invercargill (which is the southern most city in the world…crazy) the crews there are doing an incredible job.  From training teams to leading worship to eating and eating and eating sooooo much food, this trip has been so worth it.

When all is said and done, we pray that this trip would connect people with Jesus, help inspire action in devotion to our God and open eyes to the reality that everyone, you and I, can be an answer to this love robbed world.

Let’s do this!!!

In love
Aaron & Beck

Were all psyched to be touring the land of the long white cloud for 3 weeks!

Were not only worshiping with a bunch of you guys, but looking forward to the training seminars on ‘the ultimate worshiper’ – can’t wait to impart something into all the music teams of NZ!

Hope to see as many of you as we can! You can view our complete tour itinerary here.

Easterfest 09 is just around the corner… One of Australia’s best christian festivals, held in Towoomba. Run over 3 days with a lineup boasting Paul Coleman Trio, Audio Adrenaline, Thousand Foot Krutch, Rebecca St James, Matt Corby, Fatis Valour, Sons Of Korah & of course yours truly Citipointe Live!

Pretty much, you don’t want to miss this weekend, get a hold of your tickets asap!

http://www.easterfest.com.au/

Citipointe Live play the Good Friday service @ 9.30am – 96five Bigtop venue.