Saturday, June 09, 2007
WOW (Walking On Water, orpc church camp 2007) was unexpectedly good. =D the speaker, wilson, was just super super good! WOW. XD haha i'm REALLY glad we got him. apparently they adults' speaker did really well on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th sessions, but when we joined them on the 1st it kinda sucked so oh well. but the thing is wilson is so approachable and understanding and friendly and all. and he's really good with kids! err. little children. OKAY fine young people in general. haha. including all the youths, young and old. some better than others, of course.
poor luke and eugenia and a few others fell sick though. =( oh we learnt a new game, "werewolf". it's like polar bear but MUCH more fun and exciting. =) and i got to know more of the youths - the younger like velvetina (i know, cool name right?), rebecca, tabitha, etc, and older like priscilla and serene and daniel and rui who are REALLY nice to talk to! i was really sad serene left early on the last day. the group felt empty without her. haha. especially cos priscilla wasn't in our group and claire didn't seem to want to talk so i didn't have anyone to yak to. haha.
oh and we won WOW night! i.e. our finale night skit was voted the best by all the adults, YAY! not even beaten by the bribes of the adults of the other groups (free bible study from rev burke's group, free supper from uncle eugene's group, free consultations from dr elsie's group - that actually worked, alot of mothers then flocked there HAHA). it was super fun, especially seeing how we planned it so last minute. eugenia was incredible, daniel (goh) was really funny too. we did the story of peter walking on water with a pirates of the carribbean theme. the 2 youth groups combined into part 1 (pirates of the galilee, the curse of the black clock) and part 2 (pirates of the galilee, at wit's end). corny, i know, but it was really funny hahaha and in between the 2 groups, to fill time, group1 did a commercial. rebecca stuffed jackets under her shirt to look pregnant and louis pretended to be a fedex guy. so eugenia said "a pregnant woman and a fedex guy are in a lift." uncle eetuo was like "oi!! i trusted you with my daughter!!" hahahaha and yeah it was really funny! then louis turned to the audience and went, "fedex. we live (lift) to deliver." LOL. anyway, i was narrator for my group. yayy it rocked la.
oh for the games, the youths divided into groups A, B, and C. i was B's cap, rui was vicecap. it was really really fun! we (brenda, jonas, rebecca, velvetina, serene, rui, me) did a "B wave" XD HAHA damn lame but super fun haha we squatted in a circle and did a kallang wave in a circle, except that we went "BEEEEEE" as we did so HAHA it was cool man! we SO had the best spirit! yay group B!
and we played water polo in the pool on all three days! (last day didn't, of course.) but i didn't join them first day. *shrug* hm yeah it was really fun! i didnt dare to take off my shirt but luckily the pool people didn't chase us out because alot of us went in with shirts and shorts on top of our suits. haha. the young adult guys all went shirtless, typically. funny how the swimsuit thing progresses. younger kids in diving-suit kinds, maybe one-piece suits for some of the girls, trunks for some of the guys. older girls all in two-pieces (hence the unwillingness to strip), older women back to the one-pieces. older guys all in long shorts, maybe one or two in diving-suit type (uncle benjamin) or trunks (my dad). haha. rui said that he can't seem to bulk up and is sad about it cos even though he keeps gymming all the muscles and all only show if he takes off his shirt. LOL. priscilla offered to donate some of her fats when she heard. haha. claire's like really really really good at sports man! but so is pris, and serene, and aiyah all the young adults man. haha. it was fun! brenda was our team's top scorer, she put in like 3/4 goals man. yay rocks la.
somethings i learnt from the camp:
1. God is always there for us - but only WHEN WE NEED HIM. i.e. He's not going to be holding our hand as we step out of our comfort-zone boat into the raging seas of risk and trials to try to walk on water to him, but if we start to sink and struggle and cry out to him for help, he will immediately reach out his hand and save us. matthew 14:22-31. =)
2. the biggest failure is not to sink as we walk on the water, but to stay in the boat. because when we've stepped out of the boat, we have already placed our faith in him, it's just that we get distracted and we doubt, forgetting to just focus on Jesus. but when we stay in the boat and refuse to step out, we refuse to trust in God that He will help us walk on water and save us and thus do not put our faith in Him at all.
3. God has a calling for each and every one of us, it's whether we choose to listen to and obey him when he says, "come."
=)*disclaimer: God is there whether we want him or not, whether we need him or not. but my point is that we shouldn't expect God to coddle us all the time just because "He's almighty therefore he can therefore he should because i want him to." He knows what's best for us, which is why he allows us to face trials and even calls us to step out of our comfort zone into the waves because he knows it will bring us closer to him and that walking on water will teach us to trust him. yay.
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