Today go for the fire fighting class. OMG is out of what I imagine. I thought is just they do some demo. So we no need to hands on. But finally make my shirt wet and my hair become white with the powder of the fire extinguisher. It meaningful also when I pay full attention on that. Is a nice experience to try on the fire extinguisher to stop the fire burning. Thanks God, I have the great chance to experience that.
I'm very excited and looking forward to the camp. We arrived there about 5 in the afternoon by the orange Myvi of my friend, Jet Teh. 4 of us left our luggages in the hostel as the management people planned for us. After taking our bath, we climb us to the dining hall to have our dinner and prepare to start our theme talk in the hall. When we climb up to the dining hall, it sweat again, that's bad because we just having our shower there.
The teachers, student and staff there welcome us and we start our worship and theme talk by Rev. Koe Choon Huan. He share about :
1. How he become a christian
2. How the Lord called him to a full time-ministry
3. How the word of God sustained him
4. How the Lord blessed him in ministry and in living
Finished our service in the hall, we split into few cell groups lead by teachers there and start on our sharing among the group members. Sharing about how we know this vision camp? Who brought us here? Why we want to join this camp? and what we expect to learn from this camp? I think I had answer it with a stupid answer that why I feel uneasy when I was sharing. But God do lead me as I seeking him.
After the cell group sharing, 5 of us (Joshua, Jet, Bryan, Alex and me) went out to buy our supper at nearest 7-eleven.
I brought a cup noodles and 2 Nescafe tins for my friend Angeline. We take our supper out of the hostel room, chit chatting awhile then is our bed time. I can’t sleep well on that night, maybe that cell group sharing stimulate me to think about the purpose of joining this camp. What I want to learn from the camp? Am I made a right choice??? But thanks God finally I can rest for few hours.
The next day, I wake up in the early morning. After taking my bath, we go for the dawn prayer. We enjoyed our breakfast, then starts choose for the workshop we prefer to. The first workshop we choose for the title as understand calling. After the workshop, we more understand what’s about God’s calling and our vocation. The next workshop we join is discerning gifts. It helps us to identify gift and area they can involve in ministries. After the lunch, we have few hours to share among with the teachers and student there. Besides, they also give us free time for rest and walk around the campus. But, we use this time discuss with our future pastor Yee about the Christ church history. That’s so interesting man. We start searching for food after we discuss about the history quite sometimes. As planned, we go for food hunting out of the campus. But unluckily our favorite “Laksa” close on that day, so we go for the nearest stall to fulfill my empty stomach.When back to the campus, is the time for the dinner again, OMG, 4 of us can’t stand the food showing in front of us, although is full, but we still have a small portion of the dishes because there have 1 of the dish that I like, that’s is beef.
Go to the last talk for today, that share about the joy and pain in ministry. After the talk, as same with last night, we split to different cell group. Korean pastor lead my cell group. The student share how they survive in their study life in the campus. Besides, the Korean Pastor encourage to seek God more and challenge us to make a habit to study bible at least 30 chapter each day and spend about 1 hour in praying. He hopes all of us can take the responsibility to pray for the Chinese churches in Malaysia. He found that many of Malaysia Chinese churches did not have leader to lead them. That’s sad enough. He does encourage us to seek God like the people in Korea go to the prayer mountain at Korea just for praying.
So fast nearly reach the bed time. I just had my bath so need to wait for quite sometimes to dry up my hairs. I saw a group of sister in Christ sharing how they feel and learn in this camp among them. I do hope I can join them too, since I nothing to do in that moment. Sudden a sister in Christ start talking with me. We share among. She challenged me to use more time as she teach me to let God lead me in praying. I received the challenge and try my best to make it. I also had shared my weakness in sharing gospel with friends. She encourages me and kept me in her prayer. Thanks God, I met such a nice sister in Christ there. I’m glad that God bring me there.
Next day, is our last day there. Early morning, we had packed our luggage and place it in my friend’s car. Then we go for our breakfast. Today is Sunday, we have our dawn prayer like yesterday before the breakfast then continue with the Sunday service in the hall. After that the principal there have a talk. Got a verse he said inspire me.That is sometimes God not yet give us what we want it because he know that when he give us, it will lead us to stay away from him. Right now he wants us to learn. I do agree that. The last part, he started to ask us to respond the God’s calling by standing. As I responded it, I stand. Next, he is calling who had respond to full time minister can come to the front so that he pray for them. After that is the end of the service. I take some photo with my roommate as they called to make it, after that we go have my favorite laksa as the way we back to church.
I take laksa, char koay teow, chai koay… wow, it really full. When reach church that’s the time for dance practice for our Christmas performance. Great, Thanks God I have wonderful practice time with my church member. Beside dance practice, we also go for a movie called “the other guy”. That’s was a funny movie. Although is funny, but I nearly fall asleep in the cinema, I think I must be too tired after back from the camp. Thanks God I pass my last 3 days holiday with fun and learn a lot of think as you lead me.
