This church camp is really G-R-E-A-T man!! Really enjoyed myself, having fun with the youths as well as mixing around with adults you never think you'll even talk to!! Most importantly i was really filled by the Spirit and i'm getting excited about the youth ministry.. =)

Last night, Pastor really poured out his heart, not only to the Lord but also to the people who were present during his "Envisioning" session. I think it moved and woke a lot of people up.. It surely did wake me up and i thought it was time i should move out of my comfort zone and think of ways to push the youth ministry to greater heights! But i definitely can't do this alone and i need help from each and every one of you here, whether YL or just youths, we all play apart in it..

I guess the morning session spoke to a lot. The theme is "The People Of God To Live With", and the scripture is taken from Romans 12:1-21. It actually tells us that the church is chracterized by community. Ths means that each and every one of us are different from each other, and thus we are also dependent on each other. (Remember the game at CCAB? Each of us had different tools and different techniques of throwing. Some of us might not have as good tools or throwing techniques, but we still need each other to cross that river)

Secondly, this communty that we have is based on charity. It means to love one another. we are to show Family love, Fervent love and Faithful love in our community. This way we would be able to serve whole-heartedly. (Again let's go back to the game we played. During the course of the game, some of us started getting frustrated with each other, maybe because someone just cannot throw properly or they just want to do things their way. That caused time to stall and we didnt meet the objective. I guess we have to love one another first before we can actually serve one another.)

Lastly, the charity in the community is forged by humility. We are to avoid two extreme cases. One is having an inferior view of self. This would usually stop us from answering our calling because we think we're not up to it. But remember, God usually chooses peoeple who are weak and humble. Moses wasn't a born leader, but God still chose him. If we and God do the talking together, He would guide us through the walking forever =) The other side is of course the inflated view of self. This would lead us to serve for the wrong reasons, and glory would not go back to God, but ourselves. Rev Tony also said that EGO stands for Edging God Out. But maybe we should rise up to God with a new EGO: Exalting God Only.

As we are all different from one another, we have to pray that God would start working in our lives so that we could live up to our common destiny! So let's just not be different. Let's all go MAD- Make A Difference!!