My objectives for the camp, which I set, were met and I kinda enjoyed it. Even though my group was like the smallest because kenny and justin had to shuttle between transformers and treasure hunt camp, I think we're great. It's totally not like a camp at all because NACLI is more like a resort. The air-con rooms were damn cold, with personal toilets and stuff.
brief description:
First day was kinda slack but we got to know people in our group, thought of group name (turbanators) and did silly cheers. watched prince of eygpt, Worshipped, word and prophetic circles where we prophesied for everyone in our group. God really spoke to me through the visions from my groupmates (:
Second day was games and it was kinda fun, training our physical and mental. The telematch was the funniest because during one part, we had to put 2 sponges under our armpits and run to the bowl to squeeze out the water till its full. Kinda gross and as we had to turn 8 turns 2 or 3 times beforehand, I was so dizzy that when I ran to the bowl which was on the floor, my knee was scaped and its damn pain now.
In the morning, there was prophetic drawing which was damn damn damn cool. Trust me, God is great! Pastor jenn led us into prayer to ask for visions for ourselves (with and without blindfolds) and a groupmate. Even if we think our drawing sucks, in God's eyes, it's beautiful. I'm really amazed.
Angel and mortal was funny yet touching. Howai was pranked by jon wong, and shereen spelt jon wong's name wrongly which made everyone laugh like mad, seriously haha.
Third day was the best as we had treasure hunt @ holland v. and it isnt the normal treasurehunt. Everyone of us has a treasure placed by God, in us that is yet to be discovered. Once again, we prayed for word/vision to be shared to the person we are supposed to bless and ask for God to show clues such as location, name or features of the person.
The first thing that came to mind was a picture of a whisk (something used to beat the egg with sugar flour etc) and the clues were chinese middle aged man. The others had their visions and clues and we made a treasure map out of them. I had a feeling the person would be in a bakery shop so we went cold storage but there was only a malay man so I was sure it wasnt him. We went to breadtalk and when I peeped in, there was bout 4 chinese middle aged man baking and I was like gosh, which one of them am I supposed to bless. So we stared at them from the outside and I noticed a man using a knife or something to mix the butter with sugar. At that moment I was like, " is that him?'' I couldnt be sure so we proceeded on. After lunch we went back there and once again, we stared at him again. Ben asked me if I wanted to go bless him but I hesistated and said maybe try other bakery shop. so we went to crystal jade my bread and there was no man there, so I could somehow confirm that the person'd be in breadtalk. Went to cold storage to get some stuffs and blessed Ben's treasure. Then once again we headed back to breadtalk when I decided to go forward to bless him, as I felt that God was telling me it's him.
I wasnt able to go inside the baking area so I stand outside the door and the cashier walked to me, speaking in chinese, asking if I was playing a game. Then I told her I was looking the that person {points finger} and the 2 men inside walked towards me.
conversation in chinese
me: can I speak to him for a moment?
cashier: what do you want? playing a game?
that guy: (cantonese) why?
{ I was stunned. I cant really speak in cantonese even though I'm one}
cashier to guy: she wants to talk to you
me to cashier: does he know how to speak chinese?
cashier: ya he knows.
me to guy: Im having a camp and I drew this for you. I just wanted to tell you that the breads that you make are nice and I really want to encourage you not to give up. {hands the picture to him}
guy: thank you {smiles widely}
At that moment, 3 people were surrounding me, other than beaver. Ben was like " wow you killed 3 birds with one stone" he meant that I blessed 3 of them with a picture :D Its really great! kenny, bern, ben and I gave out and blessed our treasures. It's really a extrodinary experience where sometimes you think that it doesnt make sense at all but somehow you never know that God has been directing the way for us, only needing us to have faith to follow Him.
There are many many many testimonies about how God helped us to bless the people out there. There was one that I was quite shocked when I heard. Kenneth clue was a girl called sarah who would appear near 7-11 at 4pm. so he and his group were waiting around that area. then a girl with the exact features appeared so kenneth shouted "sarah" and amazingly, the girl turned and responded. She was also quite shocked that he knows his name and when kenneth told her about the church thing, she couldnt believe her eyes but still, she accepted the picture :D
God is working through the lives of the young people! amen.
wrote cards for the leaders and did cards/notes for mortal. Chatted with chua, keann, gerald. video-ed keenan, ben yuan, ben goh and kenneth dancing and highing in the middle of the night at the learning lounge with rock music. damn funny.
Fourth day was testimonies, worship and phototaking before breaking camp. Had lunch with some of them at holland. pastor josh joined us as well, then home.
&still trying to find a happy ending
