HAVE YOU U-TURNED?
im back from camp! and it was amazing.
pre-camp:
stuff happened, i lost faith and hope and didnt know what to do. didnt want to be a tl, didnt want to play for worship, didnt really want to go for camp, even. i didnt know what to expect from God and everything. next day i went for tl-atl retreat, and was late, because i woke up 15 min before it began and found out my parents were in borders. -.- yeah and came in for worship and whoa. He spoke to me alot. even though i may not understand stuff that's happening and all, He'll still be there all the way. so yeah thank God for preparing my heart and bringing me back to Him.
camp!
it was a great experience. seriously. being a tl was tough, and my group didnt bond/open up as much as i would have wanted them to, but i trust that God has touched them each in their own individual way. plus our skit rocked, in the end. (:
the first day miko (atl!) and i were trying to find excuses to run away from our group cuz we had no idea what to do. and everything was so quiet. x.X i was seriously panicking lah, last year had jb to rely on as my tl, but this year im the one. my group started talking more during the games, but meal times were really quiet. worship was amazing. im serious. i never really thought that the youth could be so WHOA in worship, and so alive and all. plus altar call! season of harvest. (: God really touched us all in every single one of the worships, even on the last day, when we were falling asleep. that night tiff and i stayed up til 3am talking on her bed, about stuff like our groups, our ego atls (miko and ben chong), and other stuff. it was nice (and i mean this in the way NICE is supposed to mean, not roy's "sam yong is... nice."), and we're going to do this more! haha bringing blanket to church next week and talking under it lol! x)
day no.2! woke up at 6.30am, went to the hall to watch miko and the rest jam, then miko and i went off to look through the schedule for the day, went through qt, and prayed. during pt, my group finally started talking alot! you know why? cuz they had to build and sandcastle and bury someone in the sand up to their neck. and guess who they buried? yes, me. -.- and BEN CHONG kept trickling sand on my face. he claims it was sparkle dust. -.- at least he wasn't so bad to me, according to my sis he threw sand on josh's face. and for some reason he only did it to the two of us. after that i chased him round and round the beach til max caught him and i dumped sand down his shirt. hahahahaha. qt was still kinda quiet, but team time was quite fun, cuz we were all busy solving clues for the next day's games, and planning our skit. worship was good again, both of them (ruth's songs were very high. heh.), and another altar call. rededication! yeah. tiff and i talked til 2? this time, and i had a slight scare, cuz camp comm told us to lock our doors, and i locked and latched them, but i think someone went out to the toilet and forgot to lock them again, cuz i woke up in the middle of the night and found roy in the room AHHH. just thanking God it was only roy.
day 3 started with tiff waking me up at 6am, before we went to wake miko up. some of the tls and atls spent some time solving/exchanging clues for the games, and then miko and i did our usual going through schedule and qt and all. i feel quite bad cuz i abandoned miko twice, cuz of worship pracs for two worships. but worship prac was fun, and after that we swapped positions and jammed. haha i love my band, heh. (: games were fun, and my group worked together to do the tasks, and kept going all the way. yay GO BETHEL! haha. :D our skit ROCKED. and the rest were quite funny too. (: worship was great, and later on... it was simply amazing. relationships repaired, hearts healed... sharing too, with people just opening up, all the prayer. if that wasn't God working, i dont know what is.
THE LAST NIGHT was a bit of a disappointment because we couldnt jam, but i enjoyed myself my own way, i guess. spent the whole night in the camp comm room. first miko and i wanted to sleep so we both hogged the couch that ben calls his bed. then we ended up playing bridge, and attempting to teach bryan how to. we tried to play speed, but we were both so dead that miko renamed it retard, becuase we both took super long to look at our cards and put them down and all. haha. then ben and tiff came back, apparently they went all over to try and write cards and ended up sleeping wherever they went, and chased us off the couch and went to sleep. hil was writing cards too, so we decided to write. joseph brought sherwin into the room, and was talking (Sort of) to him, and we, sherwin's atl/tl, were going high trying to write letters. haha. in the end miko declared that he didnt want to write anymore and fell asleep almost immediately on the floor. x) and when i tried to wake him up later on... lol sherwin and joseph and i were laughing our heads off. anyway i gave up writing notes too, and went to get my stuff to bathe in the camp comm room, after getting joseph's permission. wah so shuang. :D hot water!!! haha. and when i got out i found sherlyn and josh and bryan using my markers to write "i love ben" on miko's foot. i got attacked too, the evidence is on my left foot. it's nearly gone though. haha sher and i wrote raffles rocks on ben's leg (but he washed it off! no fun.), and danielle and miko graffitied tiff's leg lah. everywhere. and when tiff woke up she coloured danielle's leg too. lol. okay by this time it's kind of like morning already, so...
fourth day! i spent most of it fast asleep. seriously. miko kept waking me up, during sharing and breakfast. and i don't even remember what they said when we were back in church cuz i just died. haha. then i woke up after that cuz we played foos! before tl/atl/camp comm debriefing. after that we played foos til 5pm. MIKO AND I BEAT JUSTIN AND SAMYONG! haha 2 out of 3 matches. yeahhhh. (: but we got trashed by tiff and ben. expected though. lol. then i went back and bathed, unpacked, and fell asleep on the sofa at 7. 14 hours of sleep! haha. i calculated, i slept prob only 7 hours during camp? yeah. all three days. haha.
okay im out of time now i'll continue later. (: love!
[EDIT] okay in about 3.5 hours i have to be at the airport for a flight to bangkok, and i still haven't finished packing, eating, everything. so...
DEDICATIONS (quick ones)!
MIKO my atl-who-wasn't-really-like-an-atl-but-a-fellow-tl, i truly could not have asked for someone better to lead the group with me. (:
BETHEL my group! miko sherwin hannah janice dominic adam bryan samuel. yayyy. okay even though some/most of you were like really really quiet at first and all, but thank you for opening up during everything, and for being so sporting and enthu during the games, and for our skit. x) i hope God has really touched you in xome way or another during this camp.
TIFFY i really really enjoyed all our late night talks, they were awesome, and yeah i agree, i think we spent quite alot of time with each other. (: thanks for listening to all my rantings (like on the second night!) and I JUST REALISED that i won't be able to do the talking-under-the-blanket thing with you til what, christmas? cuz you'll be at mission trip when i come back from bangkok. (heartbreak)
BEN CHONG AND DANIELLE thank you for all the hard work you guys put in for games, and for giving up all your rest, and still being enthu despite your tiredness. yeah you guys rock. (:
CAMP COMM this camp would not even EXIST w/o you guys, so thank you for every bit of effort put in, and for blessing ALL of us.
TINK AND WAIIAN THANK YOU TWO FOR COMING. (: yeah it's great to see my juniors interacting so well with the people in church that i know and love, and i trust that you two have found a family here in bpmc. yup enjoy yourselves in church (stay back okay!) tomorrow, yeah? (oh, help me to convince ame to dump tuition and come to church.)
HILLO im glad like stuff got patched up, and i hope you like your bday present! (okay i cant really draw well so yeah hope it's still nice heh.) let's talk soon! yupyup. love!
LAST, BUT VERY DEFINITELY NOT LEAST,
GOD i really really really hope that this camp has glorified Your name, and i thank You for all those who have come back to You, and rededicated their lives to You, to be a RADICAL for You. i thank You for blessing every single one of us, from cyrus and roy, to the camp comm and tls/atls, to the campers, and even for the teachers and lao langs and speakers that came for the last night/throughout the camp. maybe some things did not work out the way we planned, but yeah Your ways are higher than ours, and i thank You so much for working in this camp. last of all, i thank You for showing all of us that even when we are faithless, You are faithful, and you NEVER, EVER give up on us.
and with this last note, i am off to bangkok til the 12th. take care, all. (:
pre-camp:
stuff happened, i lost faith and hope and didnt know what to do. didnt want to be a tl, didnt want to play for worship, didnt really want to go for camp, even. i didnt know what to expect from God and everything. next day i went for tl-atl retreat, and was late, because i woke up 15 min before it began and found out my parents were in borders. -.- yeah and came in for worship and whoa. He spoke to me alot. even though i may not understand stuff that's happening and all, He'll still be there all the way. so yeah thank God for preparing my heart and bringing me back to Him.
camp!
it was a great experience. seriously. being a tl was tough, and my group didnt bond/open up as much as i would have wanted them to, but i trust that God has touched them each in their own individual way. plus our skit rocked, in the end. (:
the first day miko (atl!) and i were trying to find excuses to run away from our group cuz we had no idea what to do. and everything was so quiet. x.X i was seriously panicking lah, last year had jb to rely on as my tl, but this year im the one. my group started talking more during the games, but meal times were really quiet. worship was amazing. im serious. i never really thought that the youth could be so WHOA in worship, and so alive and all. plus altar call! season of harvest. (: God really touched us all in every single one of the worships, even on the last day, when we were falling asleep. that night tiff and i stayed up til 3am talking on her bed, about stuff like our groups, our ego atls (miko and ben chong), and other stuff. it was nice (and i mean this in the way NICE is supposed to mean, not roy's "sam yong is... nice."), and we're going to do this more! haha bringing blanket to church next week and talking under it lol! x)
day no.2! woke up at 6.30am, went to the hall to watch miko and the rest jam, then miko and i went off to look through the schedule for the day, went through qt, and prayed. during pt, my group finally started talking alot! you know why? cuz they had to build and sandcastle and bury someone in the sand up to their neck. and guess who they buried? yes, me. -.- and BEN CHONG kept trickling sand on my face. he claims it was sparkle dust. -.- at least he wasn't so bad to me, according to my sis he threw sand on josh's face. and for some reason he only did it to the two of us. after that i chased him round and round the beach til max caught him and i dumped sand down his shirt. hahahahaha. qt was still kinda quiet, but team time was quite fun, cuz we were all busy solving clues for the next day's games, and planning our skit. worship was good again, both of them (ruth's songs were very high. heh.), and another altar call. rededication! yeah. tiff and i talked til 2? this time, and i had a slight scare, cuz camp comm told us to lock our doors, and i locked and latched them, but i think someone went out to the toilet and forgot to lock them again, cuz i woke up in the middle of the night and found roy in the room AHHH. just thanking God it was only roy.
day 3 started with tiff waking me up at 6am, before we went to wake miko up. some of the tls and atls spent some time solving/exchanging clues for the games, and then miko and i did our usual going through schedule and qt and all. i feel quite bad cuz i abandoned miko twice, cuz of worship pracs for two worships. but worship prac was fun, and after that we swapped positions and jammed. haha i love my band, heh. (: games were fun, and my group worked together to do the tasks, and kept going all the way. yay GO BETHEL! haha. :D our skit ROCKED. and the rest were quite funny too. (: worship was great, and later on... it was simply amazing. relationships repaired, hearts healed... sharing too, with people just opening up, all the prayer. if that wasn't God working, i dont know what is.
THE LAST NIGHT was a bit of a disappointment because we couldnt jam, but i enjoyed myself my own way, i guess. spent the whole night in the camp comm room. first miko and i wanted to sleep so we both hogged the couch that ben calls his bed. then we ended up playing bridge, and attempting to teach bryan how to. we tried to play speed, but we were both so dead that miko renamed it retard, becuase we both took super long to look at our cards and put them down and all. haha. then ben and tiff came back, apparently they went all over to try and write cards and ended up sleeping wherever they went, and chased us off the couch and went to sleep. hil was writing cards too, so we decided to write. joseph brought sherwin into the room, and was talking (Sort of) to him, and we, sherwin's atl/tl, were going high trying to write letters. haha. in the end miko declared that he didnt want to write anymore and fell asleep almost immediately on the floor. x) and when i tried to wake him up later on... lol sherwin and joseph and i were laughing our heads off. anyway i gave up writing notes too, and went to get my stuff to bathe in the camp comm room, after getting joseph's permission. wah so shuang. :D hot water!!! haha. and when i got out i found sherlyn and josh and bryan using my markers to write "i love ben" on miko's foot. i got attacked too, the evidence is on my left foot. it's nearly gone though. haha sher and i wrote raffles rocks on ben's leg (but he washed it off! no fun.), and danielle and miko graffitied tiff's leg lah. everywhere. and when tiff woke up she coloured danielle's leg too. lol. okay by this time it's kind of like morning already, so...
fourth day! i spent most of it fast asleep. seriously. miko kept waking me up, during sharing and breakfast. and i don't even remember what they said when we were back in church cuz i just died. haha. then i woke up after that cuz we played foos! before tl/atl/camp comm debriefing. after that we played foos til 5pm. MIKO AND I BEAT JUSTIN AND SAMYONG! haha 2 out of 3 matches. yeahhhh. (: but we got trashed by tiff and ben. expected though. lol. then i went back and bathed, unpacked, and fell asleep on the sofa at 7. 14 hours of sleep! haha. i calculated, i slept prob only 7 hours during camp? yeah. all three days. haha.
okay im out of time now i'll continue later. (: love!
[EDIT] okay in about 3.5 hours i have to be at the airport for a flight to bangkok, and i still haven't finished packing, eating, everything. so...
DEDICATIONS (quick ones)!
MIKO my atl-who-wasn't-really-like-an-atl-but-a-fellow-tl, i truly could not have asked for someone better to lead the group with me. (:
BETHEL my group! miko sherwin hannah janice dominic adam bryan samuel. yayyy. okay even though some/most of you were like really really quiet at first and all, but thank you for opening up during everything, and for being so sporting and enthu during the games, and for our skit. x) i hope God has really touched you in xome way or another during this camp.
TIFFY i really really enjoyed all our late night talks, they were awesome, and yeah i agree, i think we spent quite alot of time with each other. (: thanks for listening to all my rantings (like on the second night!) and I JUST REALISED that i won't be able to do the talking-under-the-blanket thing with you til what, christmas? cuz you'll be at mission trip when i come back from bangkok. (heartbreak)
BEN CHONG AND DANIELLE thank you for all the hard work you guys put in for games, and for giving up all your rest, and still being enthu despite your tiredness. yeah you guys rock. (:
CAMP COMM this camp would not even EXIST w/o you guys, so thank you for every bit of effort put in, and for blessing ALL of us.
TINK AND WAIIAN THANK YOU TWO FOR COMING. (: yeah it's great to see my juniors interacting so well with the people in church that i know and love, and i trust that you two have found a family here in bpmc. yup enjoy yourselves in church (stay back okay!) tomorrow, yeah? (oh, help me to convince ame to dump tuition and come to church.)
HILLO im glad like stuff got patched up, and i hope you like your bday present! (okay i cant really draw well so yeah hope it's still nice heh.) let's talk soon! yupyup. love!
LAST, BUT VERY DEFINITELY NOT LEAST,
GOD i really really really hope that this camp has glorified Your name, and i thank You for all those who have come back to You, and rededicated their lives to You, to be a RADICAL for You. i thank You for blessing every single one of us, from cyrus and roy, to the camp comm and tls/atls, to the campers, and even for the teachers and lao langs and speakers that came for the last night/throughout the camp. maybe some things did not work out the way we planned, but yeah Your ways are higher than ours, and i thank You so much for working in this camp. last of all, i thank You for showing all of us that even when we are faithless, You are faithful, and you NEVER, EVER give up on us.
and with this last note, i am off to bangkok til the 12th. take care, all. (: