DaRe To MoVE...V2 caMp 2007

Dare To Move ... that was the theme for this year's V2 youth camp ... it was my first youth camp in almost 3 years after i left the youth church ever since SPM ... it was not only mine , but also my other good friend Poh Wei's one as well ... don't know why but i just felt i SHOULD sign for this camp though i know after leaving Youth i wouldn't be able to gell into the youth group anymore.. (Maybe it's just MY own mentality hindrancing me from it) . So Wed afternoon we all met in church and departed from Old Klang Road to Genting (Peacehaven Campsite) at 12 30pm.

It was also Teck's first youth camp after being born again ... i hope it won't be your last one though. hehehhe .. go to UK and get some more happening things going ok brother?

I left KL to Genting without any excitement or anxiousness (unlike previous years when i was serving as the committee and worship leader) .. this time i just felt in my heart that i should honour God and sign up for camp though i'm freaking BROKE. So yeah , i actually left expecting something from HIM instead. And so it was ... full of different experiences there ... i mean , i reached Genting and felt miserable on the first day of camp. We reached there around 3pm after an "adventurous" journey up .. there were about 30+ of us youth and the bus was loaded with not only humans but our baggages and also the musical instruments and amp-s and all...

By almost 2 30pm the bus we boarded broke down at the steepest curve on the way to Genting .. i guess one of the parts of the bus was overheated or seomthing .... we had to wait for about 15 minutes and so while waiting we took some fresh air from outside and chatted a little along the roadside .. that was when i just fell asleep in the bus! ARRGHHH ....

We reached at 3pm and the kids who just finished their children camp left with the same bus we came up with ... so we checked in and had a free time until 6 30pm for dinner and our first session... honestly i was only looking forward to the sessions .... typical of me... not the sociable kind who will mix with anyone and everyone especially with youth (or kids!) much younger than myself!

So after a short nap and some chats here and there ... we had our first dinner and our very first session .... the session was great ... talking about Zaccheaus and how he dared himself to move forward to hunger and want to see Jesus ... it's like a warm up to make us want to see Jesus also... so yeah... it ended around 10 30pm and we had some ice-breakers and were broken into our own respective groups ... i was made as the LEADER (AGAIN!?) of my group and couldn't help cursing Kay Renn for putting me in such position ... fronting a bunch of kids!? I spoke to them and found out their age and all ... JM's friend Joshua and i were the only 19 and 20 year old .. while the rest were 15's and 13! arrghhh ...

But it was fine .... i felt speechless for the first time not knowing what to say because i've not been made to do things like that for ages .... so yeah ... finally after a tiring day (not really actually) i left for bed around 12 am ... freaking cold ok .. shiverred and woke up midnight while sleeping ... but it was OK ..

Day 2 .. woke up at 7 30am .. had our group discussion ... oh i forgot to mention our VERY INTELLECTUAL HIGHLY HOLY group name which was suggested by one of the girls ... we were called "Parousia" (meaning a Greek word for the end time or 2nd coming of Christ into the world). I was "WOW ok not bad pretty cool" while the other lame groups came out with lame names like ,

Blueberry
Fizzy Makes Me Dizzy (lame la u Sher!)
Moving Forward
PC (stands for ... can't remember ! some lame japanese weird name which was found on Sandra's handphone casing!)

So woke up had a simple group discussion where i was for the first time lost for words due to the people i don't know and also because of the "early morning" thing... so yeah then we had breakfast at 8 30am and went on with our 2nd session with .. OH how can i forget to mention the awesome speaker for this camp. Tada...

Pastor Les Lee

Yup you didn't read wrongly , his name is Les Lee .. english name is Les and Lee is his surname.. ahahaha funny hu ..but he's a very cool pastor. Strict , straightforward , fun , stern , firm , aggresive yet very very realistic and down to earth. I enjoy his preaching definitely ..

By the end of the morning session we had lunch and then proceeded to playing some games .. our very own Futsal Group Premier League ... so yeah , it was a indoor mini futsal competition .. where everyone have to play ... so for once i get to move around and make a fool out of myself ... before those happened though .. i received a very disturbing phone call (Hahahha sorry girl!) from Poh Yee's mum ... offering me a place to teach in her office .. she was extremely persuasive and meant business this time .. so after much hesitation and discussion with her .. i told her i'd think about it first and let her know later. But she came back with ,

"HAH STILL WANT TO THINK AH? YOU MUST LET ME KNOW NOW .. OR OK I GIVE YOU 1 HOUR TO THINK , I'LL CALL YOU BACK AT 1 30PM"

I went

"what the!? Can't i enjoy my camp first and let you know later. . so i was l;ik OK ... i'll call you bacK"

I put down the phone and called mum immediately ... mum supported me and encouraged me to go .. while deep down inside of me i didn't know what to do. Not that i don't want to teach there , but i was worried for my studies and time juggling and all .. but the factors sounded promising , plus the location of the school which is only 5 minutes away from home. So mum didn't know what to say besides "GO LA...She won't let you go off .. just GO LA" ... after that i went upstairs for lunch feeling extremely disturbed and kept buggin as many people as i could with my job offer ... Teck felt so irritated that i think he was going to throw the plate of rice into my face . ahahahha .. soon enough it became almost everyone close to me's problem .

So without being able to decide ... i sms-ed Poh Yee and Ah Phua .... asking for advice but i knew no one but myself and God can give me an answer .. so i kept on thinking about it until it was time for games ... got distracted so was a little away from that ... until all the fun was over , around 4 45pm the thought came back again .. so her mum called again and i told her this time i needed another day to think about it ... will get back to her today afternoon ... instead. She seemed frustrated with my answer but had no choice than to abide by it. Hahhahaha!

So after the lame Treasure Hunt my group completed it was another 2 hours free time for us until dinner ... so Di di and i went to had some personal chat for around 1 hour plus before we called it off to bathe ... it was nice talking to him .. i finally get to know and understand my brother much better .... and we both found out we seem to have pretty few things in common in terms of character wise...

After another joking dinner session with the boys ... we rested a little while before going for my final session of the camp ... Pas Les preached about 2 Kings 1: 1-16 ..... the story of Elijah and Elisha ... how Elisha remained faithful and consistent in his search and hunger for God .. and it was about Transition of Places ... how he was determined to follow his master Elijah from place to place just to move to bigger challenges ahead in our lives. After that it was alter call , and i for once really was hunger and wanted desperately God to speak to me.. partly i was very bothered by the job offer in the afternoon and i really thought God would speak to me directly to tell me what to do .... BUT while i prayed and knelt down on my knees , i could only confess my sins and hear Pastor Ronnie praying for me ... the rest was just as usual ... no direct word from God ...

So yeah .. i stood up and everyone else was praying and being touched by God .. while i saw Sher playing the keyboard alone up there singing ... so i went on to replace her playing so that she could be prayed for .. that's where my rustiness came ... ahhaha .... she was playing a song Hungry, which i don't really know .. so i played it and was singing but halfway realized it was wrongly sung and Sandra came to help .. so Sher came back to play another song because she said it was "LONG QUE" ahahhaa .... after that i took over and thankfully Sher Lynn came to help me sing while i played .... some songs i didn't know at all because i they started singing some very new songs i don't know .. so i just played according to the chords written and by listening to Lynn sing... thankfully though my ears are improving and so i could play Amazing Love out easily ... it was nice but i need more experience ....

The session ended around 11 30pm and we were all free .. so since Teck , Poh Wei and I are going home the next morning , Pastor allowed us to stay up a little later than usual on that night ... so yeah everyone hanged around the foyer and outside area until around 2 am only we called it a day ... i had another private chat with Ps Ronnie .. and i gave some comments about myself in the camp , about some other things in my life , and also feeling all so worried i told him about the job offer and how i wanted God to respond to me .. but He didn't seem to. So i was left disappointed but i never lose hope. I knew God is faithful and He won't leave me. Then JM came to disturb us and we went back to the foyer to chat ...

After returning to the foyer where everyone was grouped in different bunch of friends chatting .. i had another long chat with Yao .... seriously i think this the first conversation i have with this boy ever since i know him since my youth days ... he was just so "mentah" then .. ahahha now he's all grown up and it was really interesting to be talking to him coz i got some really juicy updates from him as well ! Hahhaha ....

I returned to sleep around 2 am ... and woke up at 7 30am again ... went for another group discussion and after that breakfast ... after that we took some "interesting" group pics and 3 of us left PeaceHaven for home ... we took the 10 20am bus and i manage to reach home just before 12 pm . That was it. Just when i am starting to enjoy the camp i had to go home .. but at the same time , i'm not the kind who can stay very long in such places without company ... so i think this is just nice for myself though there should be another 3 more sessions for us to join..

The rest are still there now .. for they will only come back tomorrow afternoon after the last morning session ... and so i guess they must have had some POWERFUL session just now...

I actually went for this camp without any excitement , and i anticipated for God's presence and renewal of His spirit ... BUT i got some other things in return... =)

1) Received and blessed by His word

2) Met some nice people and found out the world is so small (JM's friend Alex happened to be my sis' employee who worked with her in G2 and seemes like the story didn't end there)

3) Had some good fellowship with some of them

I came to a conclusion last night ... before i slept .. that this will be my last youth camp .. because i found myself rather alienated from the rset of the group .. because my life is pretty different now, and the youth age group are getting younger .. so certain things are pretty hard to relate to them .... (NOT THAT I'M SUPER OLD AND AM ADMITTING IT BUT JUST THAT IT'S HARD TO RELATE TO THEM IN SOME WAYS)

So yeah ... i had some fun .. and i'm sure everyone else did. Oh and after coming home , i was so tired and exhausted that i took a 1 1/2 hour nap before leaving for work just now ... and so i didn't call poh yee's mum as promised ... and after thinking hard about it , weighing the pros and cons .. i actually made up my mind to GO for it. So i called her just now wanting to inform her , but guess what ?

"Lily ah .. now i don't need a teacher on Monday already. I want one on Sunday instead. Can you teach on Sun ??? "

Obviously my answer is a BIG NO NO .. and ... after discussing with her , she understood my "sabbath" day firmness and said

"Well ok , if you have any friends you want to recommend please call me... and at the meantime keep your Monday free for me ok?I 'll call you after you graduate !"

So yea.. god doesn't need to speak to you audibly in camps right ? He settled it all for me. If it's God's will i am suppose to start work on 3rd Sept and now looks like He's in control . Isn't Jesus FAITHFUL ?