"To go into FAITH adventures with the Lord where i have never been before!"- One of my main new year resolution for 2011 on 1 Jan 2011.
In the beginning process of playing camp, God reminded me to re-look into the calling that He has called me. Dated back on 7 October 2008 at a Campus Crusade World wide day of prayer meeting. This was what was He impressed on my heart on that very day, “To reach out to the world, by starting with equipping the people in the church to prepare them for outreach to the World.”
And now YM Camp 2011 is over, and going in to the year 2012, where the YM theme is following up on SHINE FORTH: Light Up The World...its like a glimpse of that vision really coming true?
Matthew 5:14-16 (NIV)
14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
YM CAMP 2011! -SHINE FORTH- Light Up The World has certainly been my most memorable YM Camp since God transformed my life in my first camp in 2005. It started with a huge learning curve since being tasked to lead this camp in early January 2011. However, nothing beats the fulfilling process just learning on the job & seeing God's hand leading us throughout the year as we planned for this 10th milestone YM Camp & largest camp of 390 campers!
(YM Camp Committee 2011! :)
I'm so grateful for my camp committee for being able to share this fulfilling process planning camp together! They have truly beared with me through the countless meetings along the way! Will always remember the EXCITING first few weeks when God revealed to us the Camp theme verse & theme so strongly to us! Yet also the tense meetings we had just deciding on the group names alone! And also the many productive afternoon meetings with Ps Raymond just brainstorming on ideas for the Night or prayer & Covenant service where God just change our plans when camp came! But on hindsight, would not be exposed to so many elements of prayer without those brainstorming sessions!
All in all, its truly been one fulfiling enjoyable process of planning camp and have truly learnt so much working with different people of different personalities, working styles & believe have grown one of my weaker spiritual gift of administration pretty much too.
Yet there are so many others I really need to thank for! With Paul, bobby, Ps Ivan & Mag working together to come out with a really awesome YM CAMP theme song, which eventually won the First Prize for the best song at the Truthmin Song writing project the "Even the Rocks Cry Out 2",and all the sub ministry that worked so hard leading towards camp!And many who so willingly volunteered to help before, during & even when camp ended where they stayed behind to do all the packing!
Flash back of the year prior to YM Camp 2011...
Having said all this, below are some amazing revelations from God before Camp, which can now openly share since camp has past & God has fulfilled to those visions!
God's hand in finding our Camp Speaker (Feb to April)
Spend many hours in my weekend duties in camp, listening to audio sermons online from different preachers all over Singapore in search of the right speaker for camp! And after long time seeking God! God prepared for us the right speaker Ps Daniel Chua, after meeting him on 2 April 2011 where there & then he agreed to speak for our ym camp, committing this as the only camp in 2011 he will be speaking at after spekaing to many camps in previous years.
Below are the amazing accounts of how we narrowed down to Ps Daniel chua after going through so many various preachers! And God just confirmed it in such divine ways!
Conversation with the Lord about YM Camp all the way back in 20 Feb 2011, during a weekend duty in camp, waiting on the lord for His vision & the specific speaker for camp!
Facebook conversations with 2 different people at around the same time...
Conversation with a friend who knew Ps Daniel Chua whose name pop up to me during my prayer time, & I didn't really know who he was prior to this...
My heart was in excitment when God confirmed by this reply by Ps Andy Lim...
Few days later, without mentioning Ps Daniel's name to Ps Andy. God just confirmed through him with just a general description of the kind of preacher I was looking for.
23 Feb 2011
A Schematic vision of YM Camp 2011, which I only shared with Wanlin on 23 Feb 2011. Didn't really share this "plan" with the camp comm as didn't want to narrow what camp wld be like so early in the year. But somehow God's Sovereignty did carry it through so similarly to that plan!
3 April 2011
God's Divine revelations of the Camp Theme
YM Camp Theme Verse which was highlighted in this supposedly clean bible from Mag's bible!
Dec 6 - 13 Dec 2011
Conversation with the Lord prior to YM Camp 2011... And reading this on hindsight now after camp, God was certainly faithful with what He said! :)
(Spend a couple days reflecting & talking to God for the upcoming ym camp. And hesistantly shared this during the time of listening prayer at YM GAP before camp on 9 Dec 2011 as didn't want to put such a high expectation of camp. But somehow had this very strong impression from the Lord that His going to sent His Holy Spirit down into this camp! As the story of Acts 2, just came so strongly, as it will come like the day of pentecost. "The Presence of the Lord will fall like FIRE & many lives will be TRANSFORMED!"...
YM CAMP 2011 14- 18 DEC 2011 (Day 0 to Day 4)
Photos below courtesy from various ymers who posted on FB... =)
14 Dec 2011 Day 0
Preparation of Camp!
Day 0- Ops Room
(Ops Room!)
15 Dec 2011 Day 1
(My beloved Camp Group INA!)
INA Camp Group Vision: " SHINE FORTH in Unity & Enthusiasm helping one another to seek God & grow together in Christ as Transformed youths of Christ through Prayer"
Night Games ended with Lights forming a cross... A CITY ON A HILL.
16 Dec 2011, Day 2
Beautiful Illustration which Ying Kheng shared at her plenary session!
Day 2- Pre Service Prayer
Testimony of my First PERSONAL ENCOUNTER with the Lord...at this camp...
During the opening Night Rally worship...was at the back of the auditorium and sense that somehow there was still this barrier that was still preventing the campers from worshipping God freely... that brought me down to my knees & as ourwas praying... God just broke me down... and told me so clearly that like almost an audible thought in my head... "Ben, no matter how much we can try to make it good, I'm the One leading this Camp, no human effort, technicalities or planning can compare to what I can do...Just Surrender everything to Me".... there & than, I just felt a great sense of peace filling my heart & realised how broken I am trying to "please" people making this camp as good as it can be, but at the end of the day, I should please God more than people! And He desires our TOTAL 100% SURRENDER! And that was when His Holy Spirit just filled me! Which just broke me into tears... knowing that I'm nothing without Him, and that His Sovereignty will just sweep into this camp! Allowing God to be in FULL TOTAL CONTROL!....
And than came the opening sermon by Ps Daniel Chua, who spoke on the beatitudes. What it takes to be in the Kingdom of Heaven... And what struck me was when His opening message was about the need for us to "HUNGER". That was the exact word that was revealed to Ps Raymond at YM Gap on 9 Dec 2011 too!
At the end of his sharing, He called up all the leaders, as he prayed for everyone to be filled with the Holy Spirit before we can serve & minister... there again right infront of the altar...God broke me down again...and I just knew the Holy Spirit was filling us all in a very special way... as the leaders were all being empowered to minister to others... from than on....God just moveddddddddddd!
I guess this is what it means when our YM Committee talks about "TRANSFORMED LEADERS, will lead to TRANSFORMED YOUTHS"... God certaintly did just that!
17 Dec 2011, Day 3
INA Camp Group doing morning devotion
Day 3- Wrote this devotion, as this topic was very close to my heart! :)
(Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” , this was the exact verse which Ps Daniel Preached in his sermon later too!)
Morning Service
God came in a very special way again! As many rededicated their lives to Christ & some even inviting Christ into their lives for the first time!
Light Up the World! Churches build all over the world!
Night Rally
(The final pre-service prayer before the final night rally! God just came upon the leaders yet again filling us with His Spirit to lead!)
Final Night Rally
Ps Daniel gave his final "Commissioning" message! Where he shared on Acts 2 & Isaiah 6! Two key verses that was shared at pre-camp prayer meetings too! As he encouraged everyone to step out & SHINE for for our Lord!
Acts 2:1-2, "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting."
Isaiah 6:8, "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
And during the ministry time...God just movedddd in such a powerful way like never before...as His Holy Spirit came down & filled so many campers like never before! Hearts were opened, soften, set on Fire!!! And practically every 390 camper & even visitors that night were being prayed for! Everyone was just in total surrender to the Lord! And the "vision" of my conversation with the Lord prior to camp all came flooding back! God certainly has been faithful as He promised! As His Majestic Soveriegnty just led everyone into Praising Him at the end of this camp!
My beloved youths from GEL@ YM CAMP 2011!
Another personal highlight for me was seeing everyone from my sec 3 youth group GEL coming together & praying for one another! Seeing them mature over the last 3 years has certainly been one of the most fulfilling desire for me as their leader.
17 Dec 2011, 1120pm, at the back of the Sports School Auditorium we made that GROUP COVENANT together to continue to encourage one another in LOVE as we grow in depth with the Lord in Unity!
Night of Prayer...
Our plans were change yet again by God...as we truncated our detailed Night of Prayer to a shorter segment, with a powerful Liturgical prayer for the youths, followed by praying for our communities, family, friends & places we are at! And ended with a personal time of Holy Communion as act of sealing our commitments to the Lord!
18 Dec 2011, Day 4
Testimony sharings....
Testimony Sharing, Alex Lim the next Sec 1-3 Camp Commandant 2012
(The commitment slips of every camper as they put up their commitments into an envelope from their grp!)
(My beloved Crosstrainers who worked so hard planning one of the most meaningful camp games ever!)
Photomontage of YM CAMP 2011
YM CAMP 2011 Afterglow video...
God's Sovereignty certainly reigned at this camp! As the Holy Spirit came down in such a powerful way, empowering everyone in a deep personal way.... Next step, is for us to continue to SHINE FORTH that Light after camp! And this is where it matters most! The Everlasting fruits! And that is certainly the prayers of our hearts! =)
(The 10th milestone YM CAMP 2011! SHINE FORTH: Light Up the World!
6 Tribes!
24 Groups!
72 Leaders!
390 over campers making this the largest camp in YM history!)
6 Tribes!
24 Groups!
72 Leaders!
390 over campers making this the largest camp in YM history!)
Photomontage of YM CAMP 2011
YM CAMP 2011 Afterglow video...
God's Sovereignty certainly Reigned at this camp! As the Holy Spirit came down in such a powerful way, empowering everyone in a deep personal way.... Next step, is to continue to SHINE FORTH that Light after camp! And this is where it matters most! The Everlasting fruits! =)
Post Camp, 29 Dec 2011...
Read this from Martyn Llyod Jones- JOY UNSPEAKABLE today, we had a glimpse of this pentecostal power of the Holy Spirit coming down in mighty reviving power!
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