29th May 09 - 31 st May 09
At N.U.B.E. Port Dickson
Matthew 16:24-25
24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
Can you imagine this, yesterday after camp, i was so tired. But I somehow had enough strength to do my quiet time and this was the verse for the devotion. I just returned from camp on how we should listen for God's calling and seek His will, and this was the verse God gave to me. I totally know that this is no coincidence, it is God reminding me about what I've learned at camp.
I shared at camp during the reflection time on how reluctant was I when I first knew there was this Chapel Retreat, but truly, 100% no regrets attending it. THANK YOU TEACHERS for your dedication, love and time in making this camp a success.
When we received the schedule for the camp, I was like WHAT!!!! Devotion at 7.00am, which means waking up at 6.30 am, ok..ok.. that's still fine, I wake up at 5.45am during school days, so shouldn't be much of a problem, then breakfast followed by session, the morning tea, then session again, then lunch, then SESSION, then afternoon tea, the session, next is bath and dinner, then session.. I was like. Ok, It's totally and completely going to be a stressful camp.
Anyway, on the second day, surprisingly, it's wasn't that stressful after all but tiring because we slept at 2am something the night before. Later that evening, we had games. We played Captain Ball by the beach. So cool.. But a few of us had a very "memories", Joyce had a ball flying straight into her face, Deborah had two blue blacks on the legs and I had a elbow tackle on my head. Hahha.. But overall it was really fun and all of us had a good time together, and really lovely memories.
On to the sessions..
The sessions were all very good. All of them impacted me in different way. Do you know how great is our God? His greatness is far beyond the comprehension of the human mind.. With the same message and words spoken during the sessions, each and every individual is impacted and touched in different ways according to God's will. We were very privileged to have so many facilitators to speak to us which enable us to learn different thing from each of their experience. The was a session on Career by Daniel Tan, it was very informative and funny, really learned some new from there. There was the X generation by Mrs Ng who showed a video clip which also impacted me, it made me reflected and was really a wake up call from God to me to come out of my comfort zone, there were sessions by Mrs Low on how real our God can be in our life, and also Chaplain Sally. Her session were also very good and there was lots of hidden meaning behind those words that she spoke waiting for us to slowly analyse and digest those message.
Oh ya, we also did a temperament test, which was good as it helped us to discover our self and to maximize our strength and overcome our weaknesses for the Lord. Besides that, I also had a good time with my friends, all of them were truly a blessing to me. I was able to different things from each of them. I was also able to mend a relationship with a friend whom I found out was a lovely person. I guess it was also God's will for me to attend this camp to repair this relationship besides learning lots more of other stuff.
Sweet memories..
We sang a beautiful hymn during the camp entitled "How Great Thou Art" . Had an really good fellowship. There was a debate on "Are leaders made or borned?" .... N.U.B.E. was also a beautiful place, very serene and realxing. Nice place to have a camp.... and many many other priceless and precious lessons learned..
In the bus..
When we were leaving KL to N.U.B.E, everyone was like full of energy, chatting and laughing away. But on the way back, it was quiet. Everyone, well, most of us were flat. TIRED and really low battery.... I too slept throughout the journey.
CHAPEL RETREAT ROCKS!!!
I truly feel like attending it again next year if there is, but I'm not sure whether I'll be over aged. There is still so much more to learn...
THANK YOU TEACHERS, THANK YOU GOD..
PRAISE GOD THAT THE CAMP WAS A SUCCESS...
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