Combined submins/Crosstrainer Retreat 2008 @ Sariumbun Scouts camp!!

Combined submins/Crosstrainer Retreat 2008 @ Sarimbun Scouts camp!!

Anyway I wannaaa say A HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEE THANKSSSSSSSS to all my beloved CROSSTRAINERS!!! Personally looking back at the last 3 crosstrainer retreats I have been! I think personally this is the most memorable one for me! I have never seen such ENTHUSIASTIC XTs who just TAKE INITIATIVE and STEP UP SOOOOO READILYYYY before! And I think this is one of the tightest lot ever! And this is even said by our former head, shashi! =)

Like first timeee without aircon! or nice nice bathrooms! and first time a 4 days 3 nights retreat! Butttt at the end of the day!!! Im actually very glad we had our retreat here at SARIMBUN(the place where the japanese first landed in singapore) ! It was a totally whole new experience being close to nature!And I kinda miss it oready!

....The nicee beautiful morning seeing the fog floating over the green lush forest like trees! To the beautiful morning sun that lit the surroundings!

To the nice walk to the guys toilet thru that muddy path! And the really coool dinning area where every night wasss SOME UBER AWESOME fellowshiping!

With mass polar bears, pigss heart attacked too THE AWESOME FREE WORSHIP session where some of us were part of till like 4plus am! like WOW! And of courseee

The really not very planned ministry SWAP that suddenly everything just fell into place so nicely! With phileos doing that cool A.I, to XT leading worship and of course "REV" Isaac Lim giving a SUPERB message on LOVE! =) I can go on and on and onnn! But wow! Everyone of you thereee certainly made it real fun!

Thursday 4 Dec
We all met up at church at abt 9.15am! Packed up all the logistics and head our way to SARIMBUN by 10.15am!



(packing up to head to our bus........... SARIMBUN SCOUTS CAMP at the ulu lim chu kang road)


(Can u find the Ant Lion in this picture! The warden showed us some of the ant lions here!)

(Our first LUNCH! Pretty yummy foood!)

(our A -huts!)

(the wooden beds!)

(crazy ppl playing with mud! haha)

(a video of the crazy ppl!hee)

(playing the heart attacked PIG VERSION! where everyoneee turn to pigssss in the end! And i was the only HUMAN!)


(First Hans hugged kheng! Than KHENG started caressing my hand! haha)



(kheng hard at work wiping the tables... Kheng,Hans,glenn's frog MEMU!)
XT 2008 Review!
A nice time reviewnig all the activities from the 07 year end camp too bible epics! So nostalgic esepcially when it came to the Ubin event! Destination again! Still yet the best XT EVENT EVER for me!
Appointment of new Key holders for the XT comm 2009!
XT Head - Isaac Lim
Assistant XT Head- Ben Lau
Acting XT heads- Wanping and steph
Youth head- Max
Assistant youth heads- Sarah, pearlyn
Secretary - Diana
Log head/assistant - Benedick and Ben Mok

After the programmes of the night!... kheng told me we sld pray for this new batch of XT comm!
And it was one of my personal highlights for the whole retreat... when we gathered sharing abt what we felt God wants for this ministry to this ppl and when we all prayed together! WOW! We cld sense GOD moving among us! And kheng and me were soooo soooo encouraged when the rest all prayed along too despite them all still qutie new are grp coporate prayers! Especially the super quiet pearlyn spoked! And after that max told me...that he never seen everyone in a grp prayed at once before! Even the time he came GAP..this is the first time all of us prayed! So it was amazing to see God moving in their hearts! After that...ben mok was sharing with us how God has iginited the FIRE in him again after a stagnation period! And its so encouraging really to see and hear all this wonderful testimonies!


(the polar bear game at night!)

Friday, 5 Dec


(the beatiful morning! with the fog over the grass, (btw that pond was the place where the Ch5 series "SHOWDOWN" was shown at)

The sharing session in the morning was another highlight! After hearing the older XT shared their time in XT... my heart was so touched i almost cried! Its like sooo encouraging to hear how God has revealed to them the importance of FAITH and TRUST in the LORD over the years thru XT! and hwo God has always been so faithful in our activities! And not only that... came to realised that many of the newer crosstrainers also became more fire up for the LORD and active in YM after joining Crosstrainers this year! From the very low profiles quiet kind too now the veryyy GUNGHO youths! what more can i say man!
TCHOUK BALL!
We invited national tchouk ball player Jeff from salvation army to teach us this new sport! During the practice session hitting the ball and catching to the net..the guys team broke the national record of consectutive shots in all the schs in singapore..we did 87 in a row without dropping it! WE ARE THAT GOOD HUH! haha!


(woah what a cool shot of isaac abt to smack the ball into the net!)

(the girls practising the drills)

(matthias suddenly climbed up that pole!)

(an exciting TCHOUK BALL MATCH!)

(LOVE THIS PHOTO!!! isaac manage to capture me doing the "around the world" move! Where you got to flip the ball in mid air and flip your foot 180 degrees around it!)

(Ding being my CAPO hahah!)

(I co-lead with keith for worship before my instuctional...Ding drop by for a while!)
My Instructional to the XTs!

My 4 points... THE GREATER CALLING, THE GREAT REVIVAL in our Life, THE GREAT COMMANDMENT, THE GREAT COMMISSION! Personally looking back at my previous sharingsss in crusade,gap, this was one of my most convicted msg yet, sharing some of my deepest innest desires that the Lord has place in my heart!
2009 XT Planner!
Was soooo encouraged to see the new XTs all stepping up one by one to take the iniative to lead the different events! It was like IMMEDIATE RESPONSE LOR! Even the senior XTs never was that enthusiatic before, the heads need to arrow normally!

(Max and pearlyn sharing their grp plans for next yr camp)

Saturday, 6 December!

(isaac and me washing the feet of our Crosstrainers.... later Adriel wash our feets)

(we all wrote a card in appreciate to Gladwin and Adriel for helping us sponsor abit for the retreat budget)

SENTOSA!!!-Youth Games!

(we saw this cool looking parrots!)


(we gathered at this tree!)

(wesley YM!)

(played some beach soccer!)


(played this cool relay, SAUGAGES VS BANANAS! where we had to swim on sand!.... and than hold a marble with chop stick den hop to this flour place where we need to eat a smarty inside! Arghh! one of the most gross thing i ever done!)

(the minesweeper game)

(wayne climbing that coconut tree!)


(we later played CAPTAIN BALL with that blue bucket in the sea! really fun time! BANANAS won!)

(throwing each other into the sea!)

(THE CROSSTRAINERS ON SEA!)


(while walking back to the beach station...we cooled ourselves at this WIND BLOWING VENTILATOR!)


(on the way back in the bus to sarimbun! We were all super HIGH!)

Rush back at abt 8.15pm! The night games team prepared their logistics and stations in superrr superr quick last min rush!

The really cool combined minsitry NIGHT GAMES!
My first retreat night games im playing in! after planning the last 2 retreat night games!

(the Xts preparing the stations!)

(the DRINK STATION! it was like WOAHHH! horrible mixes!)

(the music chairs with balloon game! It got our butts WHITE! and DIRTY)



(this cool "old indonesian game" using the beats of sticks... kheng got his head smash with flour by emme)

(kheng and emme in the dirtiest but most fun station!)



(BANANA 6 group! Tyrone,Yiu Jin,Lanabel,Glenda and me!.... i drew that banana! =P)


(the final game! CAPTURE THE FLAG! abit messy game!)


(the major clear u


(all the minsitries gatherin in this cool commmon dinning hall where we all did different activities, be it polar bear, talking, cards, or having free worship! AMAZING FINAL NIGHT! )

(matthias led some songs!)

(oh dear amanda got no face! thats her front btw... Steph,Keith,wanping pracitising worship for the XT worship leading session on the inter minstry SWAP!)

SUNDAY,7 December

The inter minsty SWAP! We all had a change of roles! With the Phileos team leadin us in A.I first and than the Crosstrainers led worship! And with ushers like taking the photos! 12 stone! mhmmm ushering us! hahh! And "Rev". Isaac Lim giving an inspiring message on LOVE and UNITY in the ministry!


(ALL THE SUB MINS gathering together in one room! WHAT AN AWESOME SIGHT OF UNITY between all the submins.. GAP,PHILEOs,12 Stones, Ushers and CROSSTRAINERS!)

(one of the A.I games!)
Closing PHOTO CAMHORE!

(jia en and amanda abittt extra here! hnahah!)


(THE MAN OF CROSSTRAINERS!)

(THE "BIMBO" of CROSSTRAINERS!..what a bimbo pose!)

(THE MEN AGAIN!)

(EVERYONE!!!!!! CROSSTRAINER batch 2008!)

And you know what! I want to end of by saying, the MOST MOST MOSTTTT IMPORTANT THING that would totally made my heart melt which is already melting...

is seeeing EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE CROSSTRAINERS! Really having a TOTAL CHANGE TRANSFORM LIFE FOR CHRIST!!! And really living each day like MORE THAN CONQUERORS! And indeeeddddd I can seee this FIRE and PASSION for our LORD really igniting from most of these guys already and I hope this FIRE FOR THE LORD WILL GROW BIGGER AND LARGER AND IT WILL SPREADDDDDDDDDDD! =)

WHAT A RETREAT! =)