CAMP BREAKAWAY!
Just came back from camp 2 days ago.. was totally shagged coz i only slept for 1 hour plus for 3 days! All the youth leaders look so tired on sat.. i could almost feel as if i'm floating when i'm walking around..asking others to repeat twice before i can catch what they are talking about.. we worked really hard for this camp, all the plannings, the stresssss yet what's more important is CAMP BREAKAWAY WAS A SUCCESS!!!
Everybody were excited, enthusiatic esp Wayne's house, i'm really very impressed by their team's unity and zeal and needless to say.. they won the best cheer! "HUat ah!" (those who went for the camp will know wat that means =p) My house not too bad too.. we won the BEST SUNSHINE award! 3 cheers to OGRES!
But what impacted me most during the camp is really the presence of God that had been with us. We prayed hard that there will be no rain during the camp and God is good, there hadn't been a single drop of rain for the whole of 3 days!! I'm truly amazed because the past few days, there had been downpours everywhere and even during the camp, there were places that was raining heavily but the rain just bypassed us. God is indeed our pillar of cloud by day and fire by night.. He really perform miracles when we pray. Wow!
Another thing that touched my heart was the services that we had during the evenings. The first night Wayne preached, a powerful word and many youths responded to the altar call! There and then, i felt the Holy Spirit told me "if this camp only got 1 soul saved, it is still worthwhile" but i'm really glad so many youths gave their hearts to Jesus.
And during the second night, it was phenominal. Pastor Audrey preached about encounters with God, presence of God was really tangible, almost everybody knelt down before God with tears in our eyes, yearning for more of His presence in our lives. What impacted me deeply was when i saw Pastor hugged a newcomer who responded to the altar call, for very long and that young gal just kept crying and crying.. the love of God simply swept the entire hall and melted all our hearts.
The camp ended with sat service at expo, with Pastor Kong's powerful word that evening. Sometimes people ask me why don't i lead a normal life, why stretch myself so much and make myself so busy so stressed up.. but ya.. like what Pastor said, "normal people simply don't change world.." I also liked what pastor mentioned about "our words will frame our world".It is really true, the way we speak and amount of vocabularly we are exposed to will determine the type and amount of people we can impact and have influence over. Hmm.. looks like i got to invest more time increasing my vocabularly rather than on shopping... haha.
I desire for more breakthroughs in many areas in my life, my relationship and ministry and i know the phase from tradition to transition will involve many many sacrifices and take alot of me but i'm willing to pay the price. I've only got 1 life to live, i want to make each day count for Jesus and make a difference to my world.
One of life's most fulfilling thing truly is to see lives being transformed and changed. Do you agree with me? =)