METAMORPHOSIS CAMP DEC 26-30!!!!!

METAMORPHOSIS CAMP DEC 26-30!!!!!
Just came back from the longest camp of the year for me! And what a good camp to end of 2007 after going for like sooo many camps and retreats! Rmb if u read the last few entries, i was kinda getting burn out from crusade and i suddenly lost interest in the meta camp and i wasn't prepared for it at all. BUT! God has been so real to me during this camp.... and i reallly mean veryyyyyyy REAL!
This camp wasn't an ordinary camp! Its the first ever camp i have been to without GAMES! it was just workshops after workshops, and lots of messages and videos abt crusade and their upcoming activities.

Accomodation...
Pretty okay...had individual personal rooms each. Which was really small but cosy...and then they had blanket which had HOLES in it! Whats the use of a blanket with holes...it made each morning so cold even with the FAN at level one speed.

Workshops and Sermons...
Morning sessions was bad for me... I was like stoning most of the time trying to absorb the message and the Zzzz monster was winning. But the mission trip wave one workshop which i went for... was pretty good, really learn quite a lot from it.

Free time...
For day 1, some of us played BANG! with some of the TP crusaders..and bcoz of that session..it broke the ice for some new comers like Nicholas. And it really brought us a little more closer thru this game. Although this game is super addictive! I gotta say, its a good game for breaking ice and bonding. Since there wasnt any mass games between all the campuses, TP and RP as usual had some grp games togther! Like POLAR BEAR!!!..haha...

PROJECT X!!!!(Highlight of the Camp)....
This is definitely the BEST PART man! This is how it all started! on day 3... just before the street E... they were showing where the grps were posted to. And i was very anxious to know where we were gonna do the street E.. so before the powerpoint slide came to Tp grp (colossians)... i was telling my grp mates NO WAY i'm gonna CHINA TOWN again like my last street E at the CIA CAMP 6 mths ago, which i had a very BAD experience on my first ever street Evangelism! AND when the next slide came! We were posted to u noe where! CHINA TOWN out of all places in Singapore! whats the odds of getting the same place twice! And i heard that by right we were suppose to head to pasir ris... but dunno why we ended up in china town. So everyone in my grp was like saying.. how suay can i get? But i felt that it was really God's purpose for putting me there again! Its like a second chance...for me to go there....
Sooo as i partnered jia liang... to China town...we had a good prayer walk first with howe luen and phyllis... and i really prayed alot for this day. Although i started off very confident, when it came to the actual thing i started to get nervous... but after praying more... God led me to this guy who was seating at the chinatown mrt exit. He was alone...a student abt my age... so i approach him. He is Rui Rong,18, just graduated from PJC...The conversation with him was very smooth from then onwards.. i manage to go thru the entire WYS book for the first time to a total stranger!!! He was so opened! And although he wasn't ready to accept christ..i kept on persisting as i really cld tell he had the potential to be saved. So i shared my testimony and really shared how wonderful a life as a christian was. And at the end... i pass him the bk and i really hope he will one day read that bk again and invite Jesus Christ in to his heart. I spend like 40 mins just sharing with him...and it was really by the spirit that i knew what to say even after going thru the whole bk... and now the seed is planted! After that i felt really happy that i shared with him.. bcoz and i was so on for more ppl to share and soon enough God showed me this guy who was doing some charity drive there. I approached him and he's just a year younger than me, he is Rui Xing,16 just finish his N'levels... it was hard talking to him at first.. because he was like reluctant as i approached him during his working hrs. So as i went thru the bk with him... he told me that he went to church before and heard all those stuff i shared..but then he back slided and when i ask him if he ever accept christ before... he was like very unsure... so after that i ask him again if he was ready to accept christ once again! And he was likee...err...maybe... but he took that step of faith and prayed to invite christ into his life. So i prayed with him after that.. and he told me that he will start going to church again the folowing sunday! Eventhough i cld tell he was like reluctant and hurried to hear this bk at first... God really works in Great ways to touch his life! And this made that passion for God back to his life again! Praise the LORD!!! I was in JOY after that as i approached the other crusaders like yapmin,grace and jia liang who were nearby. And immediately after sharing christ to that guy... An SMS came! It was from my dad... saying: "You and it the Holy Spirit who convicts the heart. Be gentle and courageous."... So this was like so weird! Its like God just revealed something to me! I was like WOW!!!! The sms came at such a right timing!!! after sharing to this guy i was like an Evangelist Machinee... i was so on fire!!! And i was looking for another student which i cld share too...but sadly chinatown has soooo few student and the rest of the uncles and aunite mainly speak chinese! oh well... i really have to THANK GOD for giving me this second chance to o back china town! I really felt a sense of De ja vu when i was at that mrt exit. And from this i learnt that God can work miracles with really constant pray and with a sincere heart. It just took me abt 30 mins to an hr on the first 2 nites in my room..just praying before i sleep.

Other Highlights...
It was really cool meeting my famous blog hopper,Yong Siang personally for the first time in my life. I was actually kinda shock at first to actually bumping into him in this camp...Just for the others reading... this guy was somebody i just got to know from visiting my blog and realising he was from crusade too...and now we ended up in the same camp. How coincidence is that! Well it was nice meeting him personally finally!

The second last nite was really fun... only some of us,Glenn,nicholas,howe luen,michelle and me stayed behind after supper at the foyer... and we started of sharing ghost stories and this Glenn shared this story abt THE GOLDEN HAND! which literally shocked me and eveyone there! We really screamed la! And i have never been sooo shocked in my life before! after that we share all kind of jokes and this Glenn really is one natural joker! His jokes abt his dad was super funny we laugh so loud even the security guard approach as a few times to quieten us in that deserted foyer at like 4 am. It was really a great time of fellowship!

Oh yea we celebrated yapmin's birthday too! So HAPPY EIGHTEEN BIRTHDAY YAPMIN!!!!!

The King's Banquet!!! (OMEGA NITE! FINAL NITE!!!!)
This was supose to be another highlight... because its the last nite! And the ForeRunners this Camps Crusade band was leading. THEY ARE SUPPER GOOD! The lead singer voice was awesome! And the songs they played were the more modern song that we sing in wesley Ym, and i just cldnt help it but JUMP to the songs "King of Majesty" and "God is Good"! It was so hype, and campus crusade isnt suppose to be this charismatic but the students here are! Well we watch more funny videos heard a great message!!! And it end of with a SUPER HYPE PRAISE SONG! THIS IS HOW WE OVERCOME!!! ALL 500 plus students literally dance and jumped to this song!!! And it was a great sight to see from the back! Its just like at the last Wesley Ym camp! AMEN!!!!

"BE THAT SOMEONE" WHO TRUELY FOLLOW JESUS!!!

(This video is a must watch! It really shows a true person who really IS THAT SOMEONE!!!)

(some of us playing BANG! on the first day!)

(the Pince George park at NUS)

(The place where i did the street Evangelism!!!)

(some of us taking our mattress down to this reading room downstairs for the nite)

(we spend the last nite here...playing cards, eating supper, playing guitar and writing cards here...we all didnt sleep at all.. although i took a snooze at abt 6 plus am)

(Everybody stoning before we check out!)

(The Barnabas board... some of the envelopes were taken out oready)

(MY IPOD filled with melted CHOCOLATE!!! Becaues of that merci chocolate that i put in my pocket with my ipod! and this happened when i realise before we left harbourfront!)

Away at Metamorphosis camp from 26-30 dec!!!

Away at Metamorphosis camp from 26-30 dec!!!
Hey ppl! i will be away at this campus crusade Metamorphosis camp!!! from tmr early morning until saturday morning!!! And to be honest i'm not prepared for the camp at all!!! and i'm gonna MISS YM GAP THIS FRIDAY!!! ARGHHHH!!! Oh well.... really hope i can experience God at a whole new level at this camp!!! And MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE OUT THERE!!!!

The FIRE IS BACK AT YM SPECIAL COMBINED SERVICE!!!

The FIRE IS BACK AT YM SPECIAL COMBINED SERVICE!!!
Todays been a really hectic morning! WOKE UP like 5 am! and rush off to charles place to finish the cake we made yesterday! And did the rest of the cards for our small grp...

Rushed of to church after that... and at first we tot we were late... but service started different today! It started off with shashi and Gladwin doing some demo of the friendship dance on stage... and they wanted to make YM feel comfortable first and warm up at the start... after that...followed by some "YM awards" ... and really GREAT CAROLING by some of the ymers!
And then theres was a vote of YM TOP 3 SONGS which i voted Mighty to Save, What the world will never take and The Stand! But in the end! The favourite YM song was MIGHTY TO SAVE which we sang so much at the recent Ym camp! And then it was a time of worship! Where a bunch of us move to the front! AND STARTED PRAISING GOD!!! JUMPING! And showing the high spirit for God like camp! phew... our prays at Gap has been answered! Well hope this fire will carry on and on and on!!!!!

After the service...we started giving each other gifts...and we distributed our cards and HEDGEHOGE CHOCOLATE SLICE!!! Yummy!
We headed for lunch at Plaza sing food court and after lunch we played BANG! And i tell u man! this BANG! session is one of the best yet! Especially the round where cephas and cherie played with us for the first time..and they were sooo good actors lor! I can't believe i really trusted cephas that he was my vice and cherie was like acting dumb the whole time! In the end i got all the characters in play except the 2 outlawas totally wrong!!! Everyone hid their roles really well...and i was like a confuse sheriff, dunno who to trust!! This game ah... can actually break friendship somehow! hahha bcoz jokingly cherie said she now has now doubts that next time cephas maybe lying to her!! hahha! And then this charles ah! Keeeeeep attacking meeee! aiyooo! what a deceiveing gameeee!

(it was abt 6 plus am in charles hse when i fell down twice in 5 secs walking down these steps!! Can u believe how suay can i be, my toe hurt the entire morning bcoz of that!)

(Our hedgehoge chocolate slice with the chocolate just spreaded over it!)

 

Making cake day!!!...1 Chronicles Reunion! And CANDLE LIGHT!

Making cake day!!!...1 Chronicles Reunion!... And CANDLE LIGHT!
Well... as usual... vyan,charles and me make something for our small grp again just like last yr when we made cookies and some really cool card for them! THIS YEAR!!! We plan to do something even more tougher! We made this HEDGEHOGE CHOCOLATE SLICE!!! And as usual did some cool cards for the grp! I bet the girls in God's Clay like the photos in the card! hehhehe! =P... jk jk!

well... after that... rush of to meet moonie to get some mini present for our camp grp... and headed to pasta mania to meet them! well... only chun yeung, Debb and weiyang cld make it... so was just the 5 of us..but well... i intro the GAME BANG! to them! And i guranteed they will get addicted to it! And sure enuff! Debb is now asking for another camp grp outing just to play BANG!!! hahha!

After that went for the candle light with some of my small grp members!!!!

(The steps we did to make our MASTERPIECE!!!! YUM YUM!)




(Candle -Light service was GREAT!!!)

YM GAP wasss really good today!!!!

YM GAP wasss really good today!!!!
Today.... did the Purpose driven Life with some of the guys. This was my first time actually really facilitating a PDL session... so it started of abit weird... but by God's grace! It turn out pretty good in the end... the guys were very open in their sharing and i was especially glad that josh friend kevin joined us. He was very open and he shared some really important points with us too..
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After that... had some games of bridge before heading down for YM Gap with the PDL guys... justin joining us for the first time too, and vyan,charles and kevin coming along... and it was really goood to seee YM Gap really growing. With like abt 20 ppl coming today even moonie manage to come FINALLY! And to see so many new faces... really was so good to see. Keith lead worship where with didnt had the lyrics...so was abit weird at first tyring to pick up those songs.... but it turn up ok in the end. And when we broke into grps to pray... this was where i really felt the presence of God in our midst. And during this pray session, i really felt that God really ensured me that Kevin was really put here with us for a purpose. Although he is from City harvest, he really had the heart to pray for Wesley Ym... which i was very encourage to hear in his prays. And this solid hr of just praying by the spirit was really real and true. We end this gap session with Yangshen leading us wih some christmas songs... which was very funny! Bcoz we didnt had the lyrics so andrew was like trying to read the lyrics to us as fast as possible before each line...and we kinda screwed up the songs! Oppss! But we end of with a classic song... JESUS LOVER OF My SOUL! Finally a song we knew by hard...phewww.

After that, some of us when for supper which i at first thought of not going bcoz the ppl i was closer with all had to leave.... BUT!!!! I really have NO REGRETS man! This time of fellowship with some of the Gappers was one of the best few i ever had... just hearing Denise sharing abt her experience reaching out to this grp of youth leaders from other countries around the world such as india and kazakhstan really encourage me a lot abt evangelising. And i also shared abt how when comparing YM and crusade.... There is this thing i'm fearing now... i can't seem to get the same Fire for crusade recently after sitting down and just thinking abt where my calling is. At first i tot was to crusade...but now... I really feel that YM is where my heart belongs too. I feel so HAPPY and COMFORTABLE serving in all this ministries in Wesley Ym, from the X-trainers, too YM Gap too being an Aysgl! Despite all this... i ENJOY Serving God and dun really feel that burn out! I feel i really caught that vison to see and want to be part of YM REVIVAL!!! But den theres crusade on the other hand, where i can't seem to catch the vision now.... sighhh... i'm sad to say...i maybe feeling a little burn out from crusade. Oh man! I feel so bad for my crusade friends reading this now. It so strange...i dun feel as though i'm looking forward to this metamorphosis camp which is like a few more days later... compared to earlier before where i was sooo loooking forward to it, but now...just missing Gap next week bcoz of the meta camp is like dropping a BOMB on me lor!... is like my passsion for crusade is dipping. And i dunnno why??? But this is what i honestly feel....Although i really got to say, crusade has been really good in training me well to be more well verse in the Bible as well as in leadership qualities,and i'm really grateful for that. So bcoz of crusade, this is how i can really use wad i learn there to help lead my small grp and serve in YM. Well... maybe i just can't catch 2 visions at once. Its like u cant serve to master.... well i realy have to pray abt this.....anyway another cool thing to end this wonderful day.. bcoz of that sacrifice to almost leave earlier and not to have this wonderful fellowship with the rest of the Gappers... i wld not hav gotten a ride back by Alvin Ding all the way to my door step! Thanks man! =D

Pretty cool MOVIE MARATHON day!!!!

Pretty cool MOVIE MARATHON day!!!!
Today was one cool Movie marathon day! First met with some of the X-trainers and charles at serene center to check out some videos to rent to watch! Ate lunch there... and we headed to shumei house! And her hse is huge!! And its in the same estate as Ex prime minister Mr Goh Chok Tong! Well... abt 12 of us all came came together to watch 3 movies! First Skeleton Key! which had a really good twist at the end! Followed by dinner ordered in Rites pizza! Yum Yum!!...and then next movie John tucker must die! One really funny stupid show!!! and we end of with the movie Insomnia which we didnt manage to watch finish bcoz was getting really lateeee.
(photos coutesy of richie!!!)

(Shumei large screen tv, showing a clip of Skeleton key and on the right john tucker must die)

(shumei's reall cute dog!!!!)

(I can't believe we really did this! A 4 level human pyramid)

(Super heroes poses!!!!)

(The movie marathoners!. from left...shumei,wanping,me,keith,alex,jia en,charles,richie,vyan and wayne)


(we like took so many funky photos after the movie marathon outside shumei hse! and we were making so much noise late in the nite!!! But was reallly fun!)

A Looooooong day at GCTC!

A Looooooong day at GCTC!
Today spend almost the entire day at the GCTC, met up with bo chun really early first to practice the worship which i was leading later, AND THIS IS MY FIRST TIME EVER LEADING WORSHIP!!!. I was actually really scared at first... but i got to thank Bo chun for really guiding me and teaching me wad a worship leader sld do. So i chose this 3 songs... Touching heaven changing earth, Mighty to Save and You laid aside your majesty. And after the looong practice, i guess my confidence grew abit more. And in the end everything turn out pretty well, phew! THANK GOD!!! Then from then on spend the entire afternoon planning for TP campus crusade plans for next year! Btw....9 more entries to my 200 posts!!!!!!

The looooooongest night out at the streets!!!... i didnt sleep for more than 40 hours!!!

The looooooongest night out at the streets!!!... i didnt sleep for more than 40 hours!!!
Its been one exciting weekend man!!! After coming back abt midnite on friday after YM GAP... played this yahoo game called graffiti something like pictionary with matthias,wan ping and shumei till abt 4 am in the morning! And bcoz off this! I woke up really late for my campus crusade mission suport raising meeting! It started at 10 am but i woke up at like 1025 am!!! So had to rush of by cab all the way to GCTC in pasir panjang from my home which was really far! now my wallet is feeling the pain! I can't believe 2 alarms can't wake me up!

Later in the afternoon had a really good game of soccer at ACS barker with some Ymers and barker guys. Manage to score 3 goals! YEAAA! Vyan and i then rush down to charles place before meeting keith,elliot,joshua,wanping and shumei for this "LAN PARTY" which i reluctantly went, bcoz i'm not really a Lan person... but well... ended abt 11 plus to mid nite... and we were off to a loooooong journey at the streets around city hall to clark quay!!

We were all contemplating where to go for supper! With most food place close at this hour we had thoughts of going newton circus but den it will cost more money for keith if he need to take 2 cabs altogther. Sooo...we just walk and walk to no particular destination..until we ended up at the esplanade! We somehow manage to get inside the lock doors of the esplanade and we ended up at raffles place area... where there was this 24 hours MacDonald!!! YEAAA!!! FINALLY FOOOD! so had some games of bridge too!!! by the time we ended at abt 3 am! Keith,elliot and wan ping went off first! And it was left the 5 of us!!! We can't share a CAB!!! bcoz they dun allow 5 ppl! And it will be better if we share since we all going the same area!!!

Sooo we just walk and walk looking for cabs that allowed 5 ppl... and i have NEVER SEEN SOOO MANY CABS in my life! We ended up at Clark Quay Mrt station bus stop there... and we were hoping for a MAXI cab to arrive! Which was superrr rareeee! I prayed for one to come....and SUDDENLY!!! One passed us!!! WE WERE SUPER HAPPY!!! My prayer was immediately answered! BUT THEN.... the cab driver cldnt take us bcoz he was going somewhere elseeee! Sighhh... so we just waited and waited at the bus stop.... tried calling for a maxi cab...but none was near the area... although the entire night we saw like up to 4 across the road... but we cldnt reach it....sighhhh..but well! It was really INTERESTING sitting stranded at some bus stop in the middle of the nite, playing bridge. And we weren't rushing anyway so it was like we had all the time in the world... just slacking and watching the world go by... the nite life is really peaceful... and i was surprisingly wide awake the entire night... in the end abt 6 plus we got the first bus towards douby ghaut area before taking another to charles house to bath first before heading back to church again.

The entire sunday was one of the most sleepiest sundays ever for me! I was like a walking zombieee...except the worship part where i was awake again... but this sunday YM just didnt seemed the same... i thought it was only me feeling that, but others i talk with abt felt the same way... 930 service suddenly felt so small! And the fire seem to DIE off... i was really sad to see this... but maybe it cld be bcoz the main band was at the main church this time... and i heard it was really gd there. Well... i really hope its just this sunday... during adriel message... i was soo tired i cldnt help it but took a snoozeee and this is my first time in my life sleeping in his message!! I felt so bad lor..somemore i was in the front row... well small grp time we had some really interesting discussion where i was like stoning most of the time.... even during the grp prayer at the end...i was like sleeping oready! Thats how tired i wasss! and i guess vyan and charles was feeling that too. But oh well...had a gd time with my grp for lunch at this katong laksa place at douby x-change and then had a really gd game of BANG! at starbucks later!!! oh well.... finally had a good sleep at abt 1 am plus last night after playing that yahoo graffiti game again the entire nite! Its super addictive lor!

(photos couresy of wanping!!!)


(some cool pictures taken that night! ... that 2 blue lights thingy is the esplanade roof)

(The night people!!! we got this pic taken inside the esplanade at abt 12 plus am!)

(the guys posing at some statures at the esplanade waterfront)

(A picture of fullerton hotel at night!)

(the 5 of us, vyan,charles,josh,shumei and me at the bus stop playing bridge at like 4 am in the morning!)

(A pic of the yahoo graffiti game some of us Ymers were playing online last nite!!! Its one addictive gameee man!)

God's Clay Retreat Pictures!!!!

God's Clay Retreat Pictures!!!!
I really loveeeeeeeee God's Clay!!!!!!!!!! This is the BEST GROUP EVER!!!!
(pictures courtesy of soe and feli!...)

(We made this in the sand at pasir ris, we had all our hand prints below the God's Clay word)


( vyan and me were so bored before checking in...we started playing the "vampire chac"..i just learn that game the day before this retreat..so sux at it in this video... but now pretty good at it! hehehe!)

(we were so tired after staying awake the whole nite... we knocked out immediately at abt 7 plus am when we return back to the chalet!!!)

(God's Clay at entrance of costa sands, before check out)

(God's Clay at delifrance in white sands mall after the retreat)

(I Love God's Clay!!!!!)

My stomach is fighting a "war"!!!

My stomach is fighting a "war"!!!
This past couple of days...my stomach has been fighting an ongoing war! I guess it must be the HORRIBLE lunch i had yesterday from newton circus.... anyways... yesterday was a pretty good day, morning played soccer and in the afternoon met up with our ex-Aysgl Mark with his wife and BABY Ines with charles,moonie,soe,cherie,steph,laura and ellen. We had a really good time watching baby Ines!!! What a cuteee baby!!! We then had a really good chat with Mark over old times as well as the future of God's Clay at the pent house. It was really nice and relaxing just sitting at the balcony with a swing and some wooden furnitures. Our grp then headed across the road at PASTA FREASCA, they have the BEST pasta i ever eaten! the lasagne was pretty good too! BUT ohhh BOY! the price was $$$$$$! I paid like more than 17 bucks!!! Well... our small grp has like broken a third record of like seeing each other every single day since last last friday when we had our small grp retreat. Its like God's clay been breaking records recently!!!

Today!
Was invited by irene to visit this campus crusade staff vision thingy, so got up pretty early to head down to GCTC, the campus crusade headquarters. Quite cool seeing other crusade staffs too... and got to listen to a good message as well as good time of praying for the ministry. Well after that headed for lunch at this famous pasir panjang duck rice stall, but ate this really good fried rice instead. After that headed back to GCTC to learn some basic skills of setting up a website, so maggie and i were taught how to start up our own ministry website. Check out what i roughly done so far here.... http://www.everystudent.com.sg/tp

Oh well... after this met up with charles, ben tan and stan at cathay... to watch the movie FLAG OF OUR FATHERS...Flags of Our Fathers" is a human drama of friendship and love, sacrifice and manipulation, set against the violent conflict of the battle of Iwo Jima. The film focuses equally on the war and home, crosscutting between the viciousness of the battle and the manufactured propaganda campaign and careful manipulation of the image that followed--issues that remain prevalent today. As "Flags of Our Fathers" shows how the photograph became the very beginning of celebrity worship, the film questions our need to create and celebrate heroes, sometimes at a cost.... actually i find the movie okay only... expected it to be more action packed...but turn out to be a slow movie which has a deeper meaning to it... will give 3/5 stars!


(found this picture on the mrt train advert!... G.A.P aka God Answers Prays... is my YM pray ministry!..and this is something Ymers sld attend... YM needs our pray for REVIVAL to come!!!)

WHAT A WONDERFUL SMALL GRP called GOD'S CLAY!!!!

WHAT A WONDERFUL SMALL GRP called GOD'S CLAY!!!!

(This is such a wonderful grp!!!... God's Clay retreat 2006)

Todays YM service was a blast again! Looks like YM REVIVAL really maybe coming! Vyan,cherie,moonie and soe met really early today at abt 9 am just to pray before the service started... camp has just ended and our small grp retreat not to long ago and our Grp has matured to a whole new level. And now we are planning to make a point to come evey sunday earlier just to pray for before the service. When we got to service... WOAHH!!! Yiling told eveyone to feel free to go to the front to praise and woship! And yess it was gooood! the fire and passion in the youths were still there! Almost eveyone jumping and hands lifted up! YEAAAA!
After that was small grp time... at first i wasnt sure how long we cld spend during this time, bcoz englee cldnt come and i was afraid i ended to fast as i was told to lead today. BUT strangely.... today small grp time was the longest in HISTORY!, first we broke a record yesterday after the JOH for deciding what to eat for dinner... abt 1 hr 15 mins deciding!!! and now we broke the record for longest small grp time... We like started sharing our camp experiences and it took like 2 hrs plus!!!! We ended like abt 1230 plus until the 1130 service grp had to come in. And thru out this sharing session i was really touched by eveyone in that room. As everyone was sooo opened and i almost even cried while hearing their testimonies... and for me to cry is like the mooon turning blue. But i was really glad that our grp has grown sooo much over this years... and after this looong sharing session abt 16 of us God's clay ppl all went to have lunch together at carl's junior... what a fellowship we had man! to see this bond in us now! i'm like crying in my heart oready... sob sob... hahaha..jus joking.. but i really was feeling that in that rooom at that time.

Well after lunch... some of us headed back to ywca and we taught some of our small grp members for the first time and den had another great game of Bang! with nicole,glenda ,chieh ming and beven joining us too! oh well...... what a great day today!!!!
I love God's Clay!!!!!! =D =D =D

Wesley YM CAMP 2006!!!!!!

Wesley YM CAMP 2006!!!!!!
Day 1 (tuesday Dec 5)
Got up pretty early and headed to church at 7 am to meet vyan,cherie,soe,moonie,laura,steph,cephas as we learn the rest of the MASS DANCE moves! We manage to learn it in a crash course of abt an hr! I really sux at it at the start but nowww! I tink i'm getting the hang of it! DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT was the tune of the mass dance!
As we gathered and met my grp members of 1 CHRONICLES 16:25! This was my first time leading a camp grp, but good thing i had a goood but noisy fun assistant MOONIE! We did some intro, icebreakers between our grp. My grp was comprising of chun Yeung, marcus, kenneth, wei yang,rebecca,deborah, elisabeth, gerrie, kemp,jia ming, magdalene and our 2 facilitators mathew and shashi.
I didnt get the room mates i wanted bcoz i invited a friend the last minute and so had to let my friend have my room with my other friends so i was given a room to 2 ppl i didnt noe... but it was a blessing in disguise... i got to noe 2 wonderful room mates. David Lai and Sebastian Koh, at least i get to see the photos taken from davd in advaced... and with richie coming to our room every nite it didnt make it to awkward for me.
Thru out this camp, all the leaders will gather and pray before any speaker sessions and the prayer was very powerful with all those leaders coming together, i cld really feel God's presence in that period. The first speaker session was by PASTOR JEREMY SEAWARD, and i gotta say, he is really one good speaker! His message was abt dscerning God's voice. He say we sld treasure the voice of God. And are we really willing to listen? ... well the first altar call ministry in the first nite was a good start to the camp... with many Ymers going up to the front to be prayed for. I was helping out as a catcher for the altar call ministry. But the first nite was abit mild... although there were some who were slain. To be honest, i didnt really feel God's voice during the ministry time... but the message did speak to me abt how to listen to God's voice and i feel that although i may not hear his voice yet, i feel i sld wait patiently. As there will be a point in time where he will speak to us.

Day 2 (Dec 6)
This was the day for the FEAR OF THE LORD GAMES!!! I was suppose to oversee 2 stations "Minority report" and "Beginning of Wisdom". but in the end i was stucked at the Minority report station because this was really one tough game that needs lots of explanantion and man power. Well...after a tough day, we manage to succeed in this station. Worship in DAY 2 was at a NEW LEVEL! After Adriel message abt being the changemakers! We had a hype worship and seeing almost the entire Ym jumping to the song history makers! And its only just the second day AFTERNOON!
second nite,we had PASTOR DAVE REARDON of YOUtH ALIVE church coming down all the way from australia. And he prayed with the leaders before the speaker session. To be honest, i was trying to get his accent. Actually being altar call ministers seem quite sad at first, bcoz i can't really get pray for but i can only support the others instead. His message was pretty much about how we NEED to be BOLD and INFLUENCER with gererousity. And when it came to the Altar call part, many youths went to the front and knelt down and prayed in surrender, we altar call ministers had to catch those who got slained after being prayed for. And although i wanted to get ministered i cldnt really, bcoz i had a job of helping the others. But then while the Key note pastor Dave reardon was praying for different people he suddenly move towards me and said to me... i know you are a helper, but i want to pray for you! And i was like "errrrrrrr....ok" abit shocked that he will pray for the altar call ministers because we had tags to indicate us. So i said alright! He den prayed fervently for me and his words immediately hit my HEART it was soo real, everything he prayed for me was speaking right in my heart... he like knew my character and he said something like this... your "BOLDNESS" will start to increase. And it spoke sooo much to me that my emotions ran wild and i started to cry but without tears... and i was so touched that i cldn't control myself and i just fell back and still crying uncontrollably! And this is something i normally wont be doing... and i tink i never ever cried like this before. But strangely i had no tears when i cried. But i was really so ministered even though i didnt expect to get ministered.

Day 3 (Dec 7)
WAR GAMES TIME!!!... These was one of the highlight of the camp for me! Bcoz vyan and me was like planning tactics on this ever since we knew abt this game before camp. So we decided to form "THE ALLIANCE" comprising of Vyan's grp, Richie's grp and my grp... and our combine effort was POWER MAN! Our 3 teams got the full armour of God! trashing every other team that we encounter... we combine our engagement cards and stole items from almost every team we encountered. We even stole the other team flag! Resulting in us being able to trade their flag for more Items. And in the end only 4 teams out of the 24 other teams got the full armour! And 3 of us from THE ALLIANCE got it!!! Our tactics worked man!! Combining money and engagement cards to get he 3 sets of the full armour really needed lots of team effort!!! Hooray!!!! ALL the way 1 CHRONICLES! You guys ROCK!!!

After this...we had workshops at main church. My entire small grp chose APOLOGETICS by Adriel Loh. It was a really complex course which was quite in depth. And i really kinda enjoyed it although i was freezing in that room. I learned quite a lot abt the other major religions and how we cld defend our Faith. And finally the last dinner was reallly goood! We had a buffet spread!!! YUM YUM!!!

FINAL NIGHT!!! I invited an ex cj friend, Wu han who was from my orientation grp,clB class and also fencing mate. So it was good to see him again after so many mths. Well, i guess he got a culture shock, as his church is more of the conservative kind.
but well he kinda find the sermon pretty fun. And he surprise me with a chrismas gift in advance! THANKS MAN! I really didnt expect it! Well... after sermon was another long altar call ministry time... this time... Pastor Dave Reardon was talkin abt reaching your destiny. First you need to IDENTIFY, then PERSONALISED and lastly PROHESIES. To be honest i actually didnt really get much of his sermon actually. He was telling lots of stories that was kinda of fun, but i didnt learn much. I feel so bad saying this... well... he was saying something like this before the altar call... if we have a vision or dream we sld prohesies it! He then showed a short clip that was a bit scary, it was abt Jesus crucifiction..he was talkin abt something like... ITS FRIDAY! SUNDAY IS COMING!!! i didnt get that actually. Well...during the altar call.. Adriel went on stage and said his vision is to see 1000 Youths in YM! and that everyone to bring 2 ppl each to church to reach that vision.

After the long altar call...had a time of great worship and had a short break before going to a loooooong nite of praise and worship! I have NEVER JUMPED SO much in my life man! I like jumped so much more in this camp compared to the last!!! And its really good to see almost the entire YM jumping, lifting their hands in AWE of our ALMIGHTY GOD! ... after the long time of worsip we sat down and prayed! It was a really good time and by abt late 1 plus... some of us went back to YWCA to continue to pray for YM! and like what Adriel said.... The success of the CAMP is not decided on the spiritual highness on the camp days but only AFTER THE CAMP! So we have to keep this FIRE and PASSION for God going! By the time we head back to our rooms i was knocked out! A really tiring day!

Day 4 (Dec 8)
We had one last speaker session by Pastor Dave Reardon...and this was something that was talked abt..in order for REVIVAL to occur... we need A UNIFIED YM!!! So he gathered all the Ym comm memebers & senior leaders to go on stage and all of YM to hold hands to one another! Showing a really unified YM! It was really a good sight to see! If we are united as one and cliques are broken, REVIVAL will come!
After that there was a very Looong sharing session, abt an hr plus i tink..the longest sharing ever i guess. There was even a queue! and i was really glad to see so many new comers and not just the usual faces going to the front and sharing their testimonies from the camp.
Then there was the prize giving of best camper and THE BEST GRP! Our grp had a high chance of winning it bcoz we were top 5 in day 2 and winning the war games made us really at a high chance to win. But then this keith grp just beat us due to their team strangely having 1000 in cash in the war games. But well... we were SECOND PLACE out of 24 other teams and still got the same prize of a HUGE LOAD OF JUNK FOOD!!!

CAMP has ended!!!! I actually miss those days at the ballroom, even those times in that lift which that like took super long and those strange buttons keeps disappearing
at evey floor. Well... at least its FRIDAY... SUNDAY is coming!!!!

(photos courtesy of David Lai... more photos in )http://www.flickr.com/photos/ymcamp2006/

(1 Chronicles 16:25 Grp..First row-rebecca,moonie,me,gerrie, back row-elisabeth, wei yang,deborah,chun yeung,marcus... so sad kenneth,shashi and matthew not in the picture... SECOND PLACED TEAM out of 24 teams!!!)

(kristy,me and Dom at the minority report station)

(Pastor Dave Reardon of youth Alive from Australia....and Pastor Jeremy Seaward)

enthuism of the worship team! )

(the fire and passion in the Ymers)

(Chieh Ming and Shashi doing the mass dance together..so funny!)
(The "milo" X-trainers after! FEAR OF THE LORD GAMES...richie push us lor.. so we guys at the side were falling down infront of the girls... quite a candid photo!!)