click!

Camp Believe was awesome. For those who did not participate actively, i think you miss the whole big part of being in ET Zone!

Sometimes i really do wonder why some people actually do not want to try to just mingle with people they do not know. Who knows, you may find new friends, people who really go through thick and thin with you!

I found new friends through all the camps and this allowed my generation people to be so bonded. We can just hang around randomly yet not feel weird. Why the new generation want to give this a miss? I really wonder. They do not know what they have missed out!

Or, is it just my personality?? haha...

The 3 days of camp sessions were just awesome! The presence and power of God was there! You can actually feel it. I do not know about you, but it was like so real to me. Been so long since i last felt such strong power of God. The whole week was just being refreshed, touched, renewed to run with God once again!

One evident that the Holy Spirit is present in our lives:

ALL the sermons linked! Bro Ed's, Jerb and Pastor Kong's sermon just linked! Did you realize??

If you didnt, hmm.. i think you need to start asking God to draw closer to Him.

I mean, do you think Pastor Kong share his sermon with the leaders before he preached on sunday? i doubt so. Camp Believe asked you about your dream, Pastor Kong preached about dreams!

Now, im shouting out to you: WHAT IS YOUR DREAM?

Think about it. What is yours? If you do not have one, start to pray and visualize! This is so important!

Brethren, i beseech you, since you are in the jouney with God, put all your hands, body, mind, soul into the God's world! Do not turn back and start to walk by faith! Do not stop, just give it a try! You will find a whole new journey and meaning to life!

Back to camp thoughts:

I love it. Love it when im able to see a team, people from different walks of life, because they gave themselves a chance to know people, they formed new friendship and that's the result of Team Guerrilla winnning! I am so proud of them. Needless to say, i am their facilitator! haha..

posted by Alanna Tan
@ 12:14 PM

I wish there was a “comment” button for blogs to comment on jia’s entry on fasting. but unfortunately not, so i shall blog about it! (:

It’s been awhile since i last did a LONG fast – 5 days of beverage only. but i must say that i’m super duperly recharged and refreshed! more sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and more dependent on God in everything that I do. (:

the presence and encounters I experience make me hunger for more! feel like I want to always go on long fasts, coz the presence of God is soo addictive!

and that just reminds me of how we need to pray and fast when we’re feeling dry! all the more, we should be hungry and press in to seek His face! (:

also together with the morning prayer meetings, my faith level just grew greater and greater!!

encourage you guys to start fasting toooo!
BE DISCIPLINED! =D

posted by cwan (:
@ 5:41 PM

Check out Pastor Kong's Blog on Fasting
Extracted from: http://www.konghee.com/www/2009/12/power-of-fasting

The Power of Fasting
December 4, 2009

Spiritual: There are a number of very good reasons why we Christians should fast:

a. Breaking the power of the carnal flesh. Our fallen nature is so tightly linked to the physical appetites of our human body. The more inordinately we yield to our physical drives (such as hunger, sleep, sex), the more we embolden the carnal nature of our undisciplined flesh. Apostle Paul himself was fully aware of the power of the flesh, and constantly disciplined his body “to bring it into subjection” (1 Cor. 9:27). One of the ways he did this was “in fastings often.” (2 Cor. 11:27). As I deprive my body of its craving for food, I am taming my flesh and bringing it into subjection to my spirit. By the end of my fasting period, I often find myself more spiritual, more heavenly minded, more in tune with God, and more sensitive to His voice. In fact, the Scripture records that the reason the church leaders of Antioch were so sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit, concerning His plan to reach the Gentile world, was a direct result of prayer and fasting (Acts 13:2).

b. Self-humbling before the Lord. This is the reason why the saints in the Bible fast (Ps. 35:13). They were reminding themselves that they were weak in their own human strength to achieve the big visions and goals that God had set before them. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak (Matt. 26:41). Therefore if our God-ordained dream is going to happen, it must be by a supernatural work of the Lord.

Fasting heightens that awareness. When I fast, I feel so weak in myself. I can’t workout in the gym. I can’t run five km (three miles) each day. After every service during my 21-day fasting season, I often felt like “crashing.” I would then cry out to the Lord, “Jesus, I can’t do it, please help me by the power of Your Holy Spirit!” God will always give grace to the humble (James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5).

c. Increasing the anointing level. Jesus says that certain demons can’t be expelled except by prayer and fasting (Matt.17:21). Last month at the Kuala Lumpur Emerge (our annual youth conference in Malaysia), many commented that the preaching of the Word and the ministry time were some of the best they have ever had. Honestly, I didn’t feel any different. In fact, I felt I didn’t preach too well in a couple of the sessions because I was tired due to my long fast. However, many attendees sent me text messages and emails to say that their lives were so impacted and irrevocably changed. As I reflect on this, I can clearly see that God Himself was doing the work. He had so anointed my voice and let His power flow freely through the laying on of my hands. The presence and power of God made a huge difference in my time at KL.

My thoughts:
Fasting really helps me in my spiritual walk. It keeps me on track with God and always remember him. Because i dont eat, its a sacrifice. Whatever i do, i always feel that God is with me. Why dont you try it out yourself?

Following God is an experience. Jia You E99!

posted by Alanna Tan
@ 4:12 PM

Screams for camp!!!! GET READY FOR A REFRESHING TIME WITH GOD!

Church is not just church,but its a family. Get the chance to know more people and grow together in your walk with God! Know who is God, experience God, you will desire more!

posted by Alanna Tan
@ 12:12 AM

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posted by Wilson
@ 12:01 AM

here’s seewan’s effort in trying to revive the blog!!

and me, being bad at essay-writing (LOL!) blogs with pictures, AGAAIN! =D

for all the young ones in e99 (and that includes me..), exams are coming soo please study hardd! (:

we’ve been studying, or at least try to study, on sundays after lunch…

 

 

 

here’s Mr zhu trying to learn yvonne!

[all the best for ur last lap of N’levels! :D]

 

 

 

 

 

 

why is cicil studying and winfred not?!!

[ehh fredd, dont play soo mmuchh! =P]

 

 

 

 

 

caught on camera not studying again ahhh…

 

 

 

 

our dearest cicil…

she’s actually not studyingg.. HAHA. she was testing RICHARD!!

 

 

 

 

look at the word STRESSED written all over his face! HAHAHA!

 

 

 

rightiee.. and to everyone who already knew.. but just lag to update it on the blog..

OUR DEAREST CICIL has moved on to another cellgroup, serving God in greater ways than before!!!!

and here’s the video made specially for her, by Mr Raymond.

CICILIA AMEX! (: WE LOVE YOUUU!

posted by cwan (:
@ 3:57 PM

Reached the island at 10.30am... On my left, I see

On my right, I see

Welcome to ST JOHN'S ISLAND! We arrived for Day 2 of ET Zone's Castaway Camp...!

The road from the pier to the bunks was rather long and full of slopes. About 10 minutes. Especially long for the guys cos they were carrying the lunches for 150 hungry campers!

Mr Isaac Leong (in blue) was complaining the whole way. HAHA! Morning PT for you Isaac!

Camp Medic Aileen stopped us before we entered into the camp to take our temperatures... H1N1 precautions...

 

Cleared! And off to the 1st morning session!

We praised...

We worshipped...

And my 偶像preacher preached! Thank God I came in time to listen to a great message on APOLOGETICS (: He tackled issues about gambling, clubbing, drinking, and why we should go to church. Preach it man!

Jared even had dramas to illustrate his points. We discovered a new talent in Mr Lim Tian Yi, who did an exaggerated mimic of a geek who needed to stay @ home to study for his 'O' levels in February. HAHAHA!

After the morning session, I proceeded to the Leaders' bunk... We didn't have air-conditioning... but there were good ol' fashioned wall mount fans!

Don't the bunk look like the army camps' except with the metal cabinets in between beds amiss??!

Anyway, I wonder who dares to sleep at the 2 ends, nearest to the doors! :S

Let's now check out the campers having lunch...

No tables!

But there's fried bee hoon with the precious fried egg and hotdog!!!

You think they look very 可怜(poor thing)? Wait till you see them from outside the room!

They look like they are in prison....

Here's the kitchen... Really quite clean right?

All thanks to See Wan who diligently & 'sacrificially' cleaned up the kitchen throughout the camp! Shall not 'destroy' her by taking her front view! HAHAHA!

Now after lunch, it's off for MORE telematch games! Their spirits and flags were high...

... but sadly the rain came down.... So we had to postpone the game till the rain stopped...

The Citrus house teams were very smart. 1 of their innovative team identification was... A yellow UMBRELLA! Great for wet weathers!

I enjoyed talking to their team as well as the protection as the rain came... Kekeke!

The teams met up to rehearse for their cheers and dramas for the last night session which will happen in a few hours time...

Here's WQ... behind bars. I really suspect he loves camps!

The rain soon stopped and the telematch is resumed!

Part 1 @ the Beach

Hmm... What's this? Cute deco?

No.. Look closer:

Item #1 - Bread

Item #2 - Cheezels

Item #3 - Long bean ?!!!?

The poor campers....

The teams had to transport members for a distance of about 100+m by piggy-backing 1 another. The person who is being carried has to use his/her mouth to eat/pull off the food items from the different colored strings as fast as possible.

Here's the pictures of our very garung campers! Some of them are... VERY strong!

Garung right??!

Next up...

What are the campers doing? CWO? Digging for gold?

Yes, this is the 'gold' that they were digging for! Waterbomb bags! They were so enthusiastic about searching for the bags so that they could make MORE bombs for their next game...

Warning: M18 photo up next....

Each team has got 6 'armour-bearers' wearing these papers. The dryest papers at the end of the journey wins BIG points!

Don't they look like some peddlers selling fishballs? Except, NO fishballs HAHA!

U don't need to be smart to guess these gals are the armour bearers!

Getting ready for their journey to the battlefield. The journey is full of dangers you'll see why...

Attackers from other teams!

But that's not the end. The big battle will happen on the field where they go all out to snatch points... and of course attack each other with their hundreds of waterbombs!

 

Sorry for the small pictures... I didn't dare to risk going anywhere near them!

Soon, the games for the camp ended.

At night, we had the dramas, night session plus prize presentations (including spoof awards complete with the dramatization of the persons being spoofed!). I was too busy enjoying myself to take any photos!

I must say that the campers this year are possibly the best crowd I've seen! They were open to God and His word resulting in strong presence of God in the sessions. They were sporting and spontaneous. They cheered for each other teams during the drama, they cheered when the video broke down, they sang and clapped to the music of the video as they watched it. AMAZING.

Thanks to all the youth leaders who made it such an awesome camp (according to the camp surveys collected! (:) and of course to the very on campers from....

Magenta House's teams Shamgar and Isaiah

Indigo House's teams Samson and Malachi

Citrus House's teams Elijah and Samuel

Maroon House's teams Gideon and Jonah

Enthusiasm ALWAYS makes a difference!

JerB

 

 

 

posted by E99
@ 4:06 PM