I arrived home at 6pm today. I've got plenty to talk about concerning the camp. Let me give you a brief run through of how the camp went.
Woke up at 5.30am on Wednesday morning. Washed up, got ready to leave. Reached school at 6.38am. Met up with friends there. We left at 7.30am(around there). All form 3s went on bus C.
When we reached there, we unpacked, we were briefed about our camp. Then we divided out to our games groups. I didn't know anyone personally in my group, was slightly nervous about that at first. But it turned out to be a blessing after all, I made many new friends =) After lunch there was workshop 1. We had a choice, between rope-tying, making earrings, and a surprise work shop. Cp and I choise the rope-tying one. Was pretty fun. Although I didn't understand why we have to learn the way to tie ropes. I mean, as long as you can tie stuff together, that's enough, isn't it?? Cp enjoyed it though lol! After workshop, all the groups gathered together and made our banner. Not bad, I must say. I was in Igloo, by the way. =D
We had our first session after dinner. Our speaker was Annette from SU I think. She's a great speaker. She went through great trials, and yet she's still so strong in her faith. I believed that God was speaking through her the next few sessions we had with her. What she said made me realised that I've really got to leave all to Him. We may not realise it, but sometimes we're still clutching some things, we refuse to surrender them to God. How can He help us then?
We had another speaker after Annette left, he was Keat Lim, from SU too I think. He too was a great speaker, interacts well with young people. His faith was very strong, even though he grew up in a non-Christian home, God found him.
I won't go into the details of the 2nd-4th of CF camp. I'm just gonna type what I feel. The experience with God was fantastic. =) His Spirit really moved and touched us all during camp. I'd like to thank all who prayed for me.. they are Fei Yan, Janice, Cp, Rachelle, Dewgem, Pik Tze, Rachael, Annette, Gloria, Jade, and whoever else that I missed out(Sorry ya, it's late, my brain isn't functioning well). All of you really helped me and encouraged me =)
I had questions before I went for camp, after session 4, I had even more. After that session, I walked around rather aimlessly, pondering(some of you may have noticed). It was like I was in my own world, walking around. I was in quiet the rest of the night, even through all the singing outside at 11pm at night.
But when I woke up in the morning, I had peace in me. =) Peace that passes all understanding. But I was pretty quiet for the first part of the morning too.
Later on, I pulled on my mask again and started smiling and laughing, hiding how I was feeling.
Which leads me to the darker sides of my thoughts. As most of my friends know, I don't jump around during praise and worship. Nevermind about that though. I was very disturbed when a whole group of guys behind me were complaining about the 'slow' songs that were being played. They were waiting and waiting for the songs that they could jump. When another slow song played one after another, they went, "Aiyoh, so slow, not nice, cannot jump," etc. They really came to jump around and not praise and worship God. They came to worship THEMSELVES!
And once praise and worship was over, you could practically hear a silent groaning among some students. "Time for the boring part," some of them say. Yes, it's true. When the speaker starts speaking, some people take out their books and doodle around, some talk to their friends, fooling around generally.
And sometimes, due to the atmosphere, students step out to accept Jesus as their saviour for the first time in their lives. No, this isn't wrong, this is fantastic in fact! The only down side is that when the session is over, they are back to their old ways. They seemed to have forgotten that they have committed their lives to God! I have seen this happened many many times already.
And I don't know what to do with my mask. Throw it away? Part of it is the real me, but another part of the happy side is feigned.
I'll wait for my answers. I'm waiting. =)
God bless
Joanne Lim
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