DISCIPLESHIP CAMP :D

okay so basically our camp was based on 'discipleship' which is about living your life, and it's not just based on training, but an actual relationship with the Lord Himself! also learnt to abide in Him, and that to put Him as first priority in life because no matter where you go no matter how you are or what you do, God's the only one that's always going to be there for you . like your friends and family and school mates or whoever, they're never always going to be there for you, you may feel completely alone in this world even when surrounded by many friends and only God is the one taking you through life.

you're going to face like many challenges in life , whether through school work or friends or family or balancing your life out or whatever, and the challenge is prioritising your life .. would you help your friend 1st (as in 1st priority) or would you place Jesus 1st and have Him help you help your friend together ? its things like that

we had quite a few meetings during the period of camp, and i had a lot of expectations from this camp , like reading the bible more and understanding it better, talking to God more and not just through prayers, pursuing for Him more and having SDL everyday (SDL = sweet daily living, process of sections during the day where you worship and have communication with the Lord and Abba and Holy Spirit ..mainly during the morning to ask them help you rejoice in the day with them together)

hmm okay one of the things when we got to friend's house was me doing a sharing. the night before - remember how i stayed up really late ? didnt sleep til 4:30 n that was the night before camp .. erin couldnt get the hymn booklet printed the way that she wanted, and was having great difficulty so i offered to help but it is SOOOO HARD TO MAKE A BOOKLET - LIKE YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE PAGE DIVIDED INTO 2 SECTIONS AND IT HAS TO BE THE 1ST PAGE AND LAST PAGE AND THEN COZ ITS BACK TO BACK ITS EVEN HARDER TO FIGURE OUT THE PAGES YOU NEED so it took me soooooooo long and i had to re-arrange and arrange it again and stuff and then my bro had to help me do the settings on the printer so it would print back to back and what not and the next morning at like 8 something in the morning i woke up to fix it all up and print it out but i didnt have enough copies we were already goign to be extremely late

and during that time i felt really blessed to know that God was with me during those times when i was about to give up on making the booklet coz it was soo frustrating. but through his love into my brother - as my bro helped re-organise the whole booklet and through the love of my parents who offered to print out an extra 20 copies and deliberately drive over to friend's house to drop off the booklets just for us .. and we used up so much ink and paper .. so yeh i really felt God's love that time and thats why my msn was on during sunday ;] i didnt sign out coz i was talking to erin and i forgot to sign out so yeh

and then it was really fun after the meetings that day we were playing 'i spy' while waiting for dinner and it was so funny coz some people picked the most random things ever... lol and it actually was inside the room lmfao and there were 15 pizzas for dinner so you could eat as many as you wanted to and different flavours which i thought was coool i dont remember which ones i ate though .. oh wells :D

after dinner was hymn sharing and 'sharing' .. basically thats just sharing with what touched you or how you're feeling with your relationship with God or expectations you had for that camp, and hymn sharing is sharing songs so yeh :D we sung self-composed songs by church b/s which was realllly fun to sing and had really good lyrics. shame i dont have recordings of them lol ><>

sleepover was fun .. sleeping in the living room all lined up together we were singing songs and chatting and whatnot, and we had a 'happy hour' basically just time where everybody says something really happy that happened during that day that they really enjoyed :D which was good

next day we were sort into groups to do SDL and PP (precious prayers- basically prayers to Lord, Abba n Spirit to help you throughout that day) and i really felt the love among brothers & sisters and we were all so happy and joyous and on such a spiritual high. we even saw heart shaped clouds in the sky - like you can see all around you the love from God which is truly amazing because God truly is LOVE :D

we were taking heaps of photos and singing and what not :] another verse i found in the bible which was really touching was 'jesus christ is the same yesterday, today and forever' which was really touching because it shows that His love for us is always going ot be so abundant so beautiful so great and so treasured ! and another one 'my grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness' so thats basically just saying how when we're in weakness, His strength is perfect for ours and His grace towards us is sufficient for us which is a truly great thing

lunch we had lasagna and banana cake which was heaps yummmmmmm. and another meeting was about having quality and close time with God :D and to 'love one another as i have loved you' so yeh and we really felt that we can rely on b/s to give us support so they are different to normal (school) friends and yeh...played some games too .. doing scissors paper rock and stuff to do hand stacking and whoever won got to slap their hand on top of the pile, and we were playing the slapping game "ABCD" and singing hymsn together. oooh and later on we were playing charades of bible characters tv shows and movies and i think my group may have won or tied haha soo much fun

dinner was hotpot and that was heaps nice too :D:D so fresh and yummy . and last of all we had sharings by every brother and sisters - happy and/or sad, and it was so like "WOW" to hear so many different stories and how everybody felt encouraged or inspired by each other to desire for the Lord more and more everyday, and at the end we all gathered together in a circle holding /linking hands/arms and singing a song ( forgot what lol ) and yeh it was sooo much fun that camp i'll never ever forget it . im so grateful my parents let me go to it :D