First things first....

So this is my first entry on Blogger.com and I thought that this should be directed towards just introducing my self and providing you as a reader a brief over view of the different things that I'm passionate about.

Hi everyone my name is Blaze, I currently live Australia and I am 19 years of age. I was raised in the Catholic School System which has provided me with a Catholic bases to my Christian faith. During my final few years of high school I got involved with a youth ministry in my school and this gave me a multi denominational faith. I'll share more about how this influenced my whole life workings later on.

This has also lead on to other things with my involvement with numerous ministries in my area, varying from being a supporter to being in the youth band playing on bass. This has given me the opportunity to meet so many awesome and influential people and has brought more depth to my understanding of Christ, the Church and the wider community. One of the most notable of these people was a man named Darrell Scott who shared how his daughter, Rachel Scott, led a selfless life until her death in the Columbine Shootings of 1999 aged only 17. I wept like a baby that day and gave a standing ovation for a man with so much courage that he would share something so personal with a stadium of strangers. I am also apart of various other ministries around the world, such as X3Church, Exodus International and Hillsong London.

I have a passion for reading and writing, music (both listening and writing lyrics and accompaniment) and also education. I am currently studying Enrolled Nursing at a local community college, which will hopefully lead onto missionary work in the future. I have already gone to the Solomon Islands and plan on going to Russia or Tanzania it the coming years. I have a passion for God, a passion for Social Justice and an over all passion for helping people. But it wasn't always like this. I have struggled with issues of depression and anxiety, was diagnosed with borderline Autism and Asperses at the age of 12 and I struggle with identity issues that have ruled my life for quite some time.

That’s all for my first post. Sorry if it seemed scatted at all, just wanted to give you a brief overview of everything. I will share all of these things in more depth in the coming weeks when I get sometime to get stuff down on paper.