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Monday, June 16, 2008

Back from church camp a few days ago! And it was such a great time for me and for God! (yeah because we go there not just for ourselves but for him also!) Hahaas it was a totally new experience for me considering all the previous church camps I went before. And God fulfilled his prophesy and answered my prayers! praise God! Well save that for later and tok abt the camp first...

We went there a day earlier than the main congregation with dexter, abby, sarah and benneo(he take car) and on the 7 hour plus bus trip I realised that i nvr bring headphone!!! =OOOO then cannot listen to music!!! =( lol but i lived through the 7 hrs la, half alive, half dead.... (asleep) =P

On Day 0(let's just call it that) we stayed in the hotel room and played guitar, half composed a country song and made some music video of power rangers and happy bday with benneo and dex. hahas...

The 1st day we went to last minute swimming before everyone arrived!
supercold sia... have wind blowing like siao
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Supermans

Wet Arabs of the desert

Dex's a Dolphin

Waaah benneo seh! =D

They have arrived!

We were changing room for 1st day onwards and waiting for the room rey was agonising! the hotel was booked full and we had to wait for rooms to be checked out and prepared before recieving the key! and ppl also change change rooms and affect the order of registration so the hotel and church staff in charge of such things were overwhelmed. can see they stress when we found them to get our room key.

After settling down we had services and worships. I was quite surprised as the camp theme was exactly the same as previous church camp in Beijing BICF! The bible verse also the same sia... but the approach to the theme was different and i think it's a blessing from god to see his word being omnipotent and omniapplicable. we experienced great movement in the holy spirit within us. God's healing hands touched the congregation of the church:
-ppl once bound on wheel chair but now can walk
-ppl eyesight improve (dexter's dad! =DDD)
-ppl knees being cured of rheumatism or arthritis and being able to run and squat again
-ppl with sports related back and elbow injuries being healed
-ppl being able to hear clearer (no more hearing aid!)
-ppl having allergies being healed!
I was once a skeptic of such faith healing events and even doubted whether it was biblically correct, for many years lived with the belief (or maybe unbelief?). Until today. I can say that God really changed my perception of him in this camp, not only he is a healer of hearts, but a healer of everything! praise the lord!

He also touched us through the gift of prophesy, preacher mike connell urged us to have faith and listen to god, and to practice prophesying for each other(asking god to reveal a person's needs for prayer to us).
-i was touched by seeing the degree of faith mike connell has with god in his life.
-i was touched by seeing the power of god working through the entire congregation, ppl had sensations on their bodies and they came out to pray for those who were affected in those parts.
-i was touched by the way god worked through me (the person i least expect to achieve anything due to my unopen spiritual life) and that he used me to prophesy for brother terry and pastor daniel. (I had a vision of a pen and it turned out that terry was a teacher)

I was also touched by the unity of god's ppl, that even we sometimes had opinions or even grudges for each other, we still prayed as a church, as a cell and as a friend or brother in christ.

For the remaining 4 days, we hung out as a group during our free time
Hang out group:Benneo, Dexter, Leslie, Bryan, Andrew Lu, Joshua Kwa, Sarah, Abi, Serphina, Eunice, Jewel, me.

Had fun shopping and hanging out!
hangout points(copied from dex's blog):
- Hotel Berjaya Times Square (connected to shopping center)
- Shabu Shabu restaurant ( UBER cheap steamboat)
- ChinaTown (got lostt!!!)
- Jalan don't know what (stingray! Satay! lala!)
- Swimming pool
- Sauna
- Each other's rooms
- Function hall(for service, for buffet meals)
- the pavillion
- KL's biggest music shop
- Sungei Wang
- F.O.S
- StarBucks
- many more!

In hotel lift

our roomates!

spiderman!

Evil spiderman! (lol)

Benneo use gatsby hair wax! =P

Large and cheap! =P

Who's he waiting for? hahas

Bros in christ

Monster

brotherly love siol

Eat! the food there also cheaper!

Nvr go themepark lol

Watched movies!
-narnia:prince caspian(watched in theater! there the ticket so cheap, can only use the money buy nachos in sgp)
-1408(ben's ps2)
-kung fu panda(ben's ps2)
-flood, watch halfway (ben's ps2)

At night sleep quite comfortable la... but cold in the morning! i managed to survive through camp without any sweater or wad! lol reminds me of china you know... the cold gusts of air in the hotel!

WE hung out in each other's rooms, do random stuff, play ps2, watch movies, and also got scandal somemore... hahas =PPPP

Supressing the demon of lust.... lol

We planned a game: "2502" where ppl had to save a hostage from a room by searching for the bible and the hostage! lol
cast of the game: Abby, Benneo, Dex, Me, Sarah

The hostage!

phantom of the opera! lalas

Phantom and scream

Scream and werewolf scandal!

set for the ambush! XD heeheheheheeh

Commenced! Joshua's down!

This should be the ad for our game! how ironic... shes the one that came closest to winning!

Fun sia... but too bad nvr scare 2 ppl of our hang out group cos if time constraints and complaints of noise form neighbour....(cos of eunice's high pitch!) hahas

Well it was really an enjoyable camp and may be the pinnacle of the june hols this year... now on to my testimony! (clutches testicles now)

Pastor Derrick asked for ppl with allergies to go up to be prayed for, and as you know many ppl in the camp experienced allergy healing like able to eat crab and all these. I also asked pastor daniel to pray for my nose, which is affected by sinusitis and will be the first to flare up during an allergy. But i was rather disappointed as nothing much came out of the prayers during the camp.

I often experienced allergies in the form of continuous runny nose with copious amounts of watery mucus coming out, itching eyes and if the the very extent, asthma. I have little stuff I'm allergic too but i have rather weird allergens, such as after bathing(if the water gets into your nose or you blew your nose while showering), after washing face, after going to take socks.

I was rather surprised in the day i came back from camp that my nose didn't react after washing face, and somemore i was using an old facial cleanser(new one ran out) that sure will kena allergy one last time. and somemore when i took socks this morning i also didn't suffer from runny nose! my allergy to them was gone! praise the lord! This really show that if you sincerely believe in the character of god, and to claim things that go with his character and will, he will bless you.

That was prayers being answered, but terry's prophecy for me came true also! He had a vision of an empty fish tank. And he felt that god wanted to tell me that if have some place that are empty or in need on my live and he is goign to fill them up in his time. then terry asked whether it applied to my life, and i told him abt the DSA i was very worried abt. so we prayed abt it. Then on the next day, unbeknownst to me, at singapore, vjc called my mother and told her there was an audition. It was really weird as i only submitted the online application but not the letter containing documents yet, and normally they would only call after they have recieved all. Then the same thing happened ytd for rjc! they called me abt the audition when i nvr submit everything yet. Today was the rjc audition and there is a second round of audition tomorrow. God has blessed me and answered my prayers and i believe that he has not finished yet and will still continue seeing me through and blessing me throughout the entire ordeal! How great is our god, Now i only want to sing laudate dominum! laudate dominum omnes populi!

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