Day1: Met up early at 8am for leaders and committee meeting to finalize some stuff and to just pray for the retreat. Soon people started filling up and by 9.30 all the campers were here. Hernshung smartly got stuck in the lift so we ended up having extra time for ice breakers. Whacko was really great, all the laughter and blur sotongs who had no idea what was going on haha! P.S sry Deon if i whacked u too hard. Watch Dog also rocked, super funny to see those who were blindfolded waving the newspaper rolls around like they were swatting flies. They all had that blur look on their faces when their keys were stolen haha:)

Russ, Minqhee, Tiffany and I had to go early to east coast park to set up the games. Woah it was like seriously uber hot under the afternoon sun...now i'm as red as a cooked lobster. The youths had an epic time playing the games, especially at the MUAHCHEE station! Haha it was super funny watching the youths get wet and roll in the sand becoming super dizzy and literally having the world around them spin!

It was a great feeling doing worship for the first time at a camp:) Pastor Aaron's sermon was really good, teaching us about how great out God is. The alter call after the sermon was a time of really experiencing God and encountering him. I really sat there and reflected on my life and how I was living it. I realized that my life was kind of stagnant and I did not know what I wanted to do in life or which path I should take. Thank God for Andy! Seriously! I never really realized till then that there was a friend, leader and big brother just a phone call away. Thank you Andy for praying for me and for lending your shoulder to cry on. I could really feel God's presence in the room and I'm sure everyone there had an encounter with God in their own special way. Praise God for that! :)

Crazy crazy stuff followed as I thought I could get a good night's rest before waking up early the next morning. However I didn't manage to sleep until 2am in the morning as we were up all night planning the games for day 2 of the retreat. The air con didn't help and my whole body was freezing.

Day 2: 5.30am wake up call kinda killed me haha. We arrived at MacRitchie Reservoir at around 6.30 and we then had a good time of mass worship and group devotion. In the quietness of MacRitchie, it really got me thinking of God's creation and how I could really use some time of m busy schedule to just sit in somewhere peaceful and quiet and just admire God's creation. Chaos followed as the games comm only had 30 mins to set up all our games. It was kinda rush to finish putting up the spider web but it still worked out in the end. Many funny photos followed of people being blindfolded trying to eat marshmallows. The skids were also super funny; Barney, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Twilight were just 2 of the topics that the skids were about. It was really super funny to watch HAHA!

Pastor Aaron's 2nd sermon was next after we got back and had some time to wash up. It was about prayer and how prayer can cost us out lives. Our prayers are answered in God's time and if we pray expecting him to do something, we will surely find our answers in very unique ways. Sry to say that I was kinda very tired and so was nodding off in some parts of the sermon...sorry...

We had around 2 hours for lunch and to just chill out and I spent that time playing Bridge haha :P In the afternoon we had a meaningful time at Kranji War Memorial. The time that was given to us to just walk aroudn and let God speak to us was really enough to allow me to reflect on my life. It made me realize that I should really cherish how fortunate I am to be living in a time where there is peace and no wars. Group discussions followed with Daniel taking me, Jordon and Jonathan. Some questions asked were "how are you going to live your life after looking at these gravestones?" and "what do I want inscribed on my gravestone?". I guess my answer to the second question would be the same as Daniel's, "I have fought the good fight, I have run the race, I have kept the faith".

Worship that night was really great! It was like totally awesome with people standing on chairs while the rest just crowding to the front to just praise and worship God. Pastor Aaron's 3rd and final sermon was about us rising up like stars or in shame. After his sermon was holy communion, but instead of the pastors serving us communion, we had to serve our friends. It was a first for me and I can really say it is a different experience altogether. Well following our tmc youth camp traditions, the last night was really one of just playing, fellowshipping and only sleeping for 1 and a half hours HAHA :D At night we just went retarded playing different games and having retarded forfeits! I also managed to write all my encouragement cards, YAY! :D

Day 3: Worship that morning was really epic! The first part of worship was great, people jumping and singing praises to God! After that was a time of sharing and testimony where a few of us went up to just our experiences during the camp as well as about our lives over these few months. We had a time of just prayer where everyone was kneeling on the floor and just praying for each other. I thank God for Russ and Jonathan! They are seriously brothers that I cannot live without, I LOVE YOU GUYS! :D Thanks for praying for me, it didn't make me cry as I thought it would make me, but still it was awesome! The closing songs were really awesome! Everyone was now so emotional and excited and it was a really great sight to see all the youths jumping for God! I hope that worship every sunday will be just like the worship we experienced as a closing for Ignite 2010!