Blogs I read
- Alan Hirsch
- Anne Jackson
- Billy Chia
- Carlos Whittaker
- Cheval Glass
- Church Marketing Sucks
- Church Relevance
- Church Video Ideas
- Confessions of a Worshipper
- CONNECT
- Consuming Worship
- Cries Of The Heart
- Dave Ferguson
- David Lindner
- Deadly Viper Character Assassins Blog
- Eric's Daily FOF Blog
- Ethos...
- Evotional
- Facedown Worshipper
- Fred McKinnon
- Gary Durbin
- Jimmy Purchase
- Life Music Ministry
- Made to Praise Him
- Matt's Thoughts
- Musings from 121
- My Worship Revolution
- Pete Wilson
- Rock Worship
- Scott Hodge
- Shawn's Blogspot
- Smulo Space
- Sojourn Music
- Southview Connect
- Swerve
- The NewLife Blog
- The Resurgence
- The Suburban Christian
- The Wonderful Noise
- This Guy Falls Down
- Wes Husted
- William Attaway
- Worship Guitar Guy
- Worship Ideas
- Worship Ministry Catalyst
- Youth Ministry Forum
Contact
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Biography
Rob Petrini came on board at Southview (www.southview.org) as Minister for Youth & Worship, April 1, 2007. Born and raised in Australia, Rob first preached at a youth event in Rome, Italy, in 1993. In that year he also led numerous outreach events within Italy. Since then, he has ministered in both the US and Australia in the areas of worship, youth and young adults. In Australia he has worked as a youth & young adult leader at St George Community Church, as an Associate Pastor at Parkside Church and as Associate Pastor at Helensburgh Baptist Church. He also worked in an advisory role assisting Fairfield Council with Youth Affairs, helping initiate and run a program called Links to Learning, a program designed to help kids from dropping out of high school.
In 2006 Rob left Australia, co-leading with John Smulo to form and plant LifeSong Church in Elk Grove, CA. Rob has recently worked as an assistant leader with Remedy (www.eremedy.org), a Young Adult Outreach Ministry sponsored through Youth for Christ (www.yfc.net).
Rob has a real heart for discipling youth and young adults, teaching and leading worship and has a keen interest in apologetics. Rob is a big fan of most competitive sports, but especially Soccer & Ice Hockey. He enjoys reading, adding to his hockey card collection and commercial aviation photography. Rob is married to Monica and they have three girls, Isabella, Alexandra & Jessica.
Interests
My Hobbies: Collecting Ice Hockey cards, in particular Ron Francis, who happens to be my favourite player. Also commercial aviation photography. My favourite place on earth: any major airport! My favourite city: Rome, Favourite Musicians/Bands: The Church, U2, Future of Forestry, Midnight Oil, Straylight Run, V. Spy V. Spy, Hillsong United, Peter Gabriel, Sting, The Police, Cool Hand Luke, Creed, Seventh Day Slumber, Dizmas, Leeland, Nathan Tasker. Favourite Movies: LOTR Trilogy, Matrix Trilogy, The Fisher King, Good Will Hunting, Fiddler on the Roof, The Island, Stargate, any Star Trek but especially Next Generation. Favourite Saying: "If there is no wind... row" (unknown). Favourite Bible Verse: Proverbs 3:5 Favourite Author(s): Ravi Zacharias, David Eddings, Tony Campolo, Ronald Cole-Turner, Philip Yancey, Frank Herbert, Rob Bell, John Ortberg. Favourite Book(s): The Bible; "Dune" - Frank Herbert; "Who Made God" - Ravi Zacharias; "The Elenium Trilogy" - David Eddings; "The Jesus I Never Knew" - Philip Yancey; "Velvet Elvis" - Rob Bell; "Church of Irresistible Influence" - Robert Lewis; "It's Friday, but Sunday is Coming" - Tony Campolo; "God and the Embryo" - Robert Cole-Turner; "The Earthsea Trilogy" - Ursula LeGuin; "Absurdistan" - Eric Campbell.
