Today last day of the Amazing Race camp. Sob sob.. the camp coming to an end. Anyway, the day must go on with a time for devotion. Topic of the discussion: staying in the race. This time, all 4 teams gathered at the garden in front of the dewan. Let us strip off every weight that slow us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our faith on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith (Hebrews 12: 1-2). Then, time for Pit Stop where all campers shared abt they've learned thru this camp. After devotion, grp photos of all the teams were captured as memory.
Later, time for breakfast, then followed by the last session. Koon Eu was in-charge of the ice-breaking session. Then, time for worship. Eugene began by singing the song One Way. "One way, Jesus! You're the only one that I could live for." While singing this song, I did the actions for the line 'One way, Jesus!' Really enjoyed dancing while singing. GG Gene end the session by introducing a new song entitled Everything by Tim Hughes (check my earlier posts for the lyrics of the song).
Time to hear the sermon from Bro Joseph for the very last time. In the last leg, he preached abt how to finish our race well. He brought forward a case study on Eli in his sermon. He led the Israelites for 40 yrs and was the chief priest of the temple appointed by the Lord, but his 2 sons didn't know abt God and they "were worthless men".
As we begin the race of life, we should know how to finish it well.
Then, he asked Eugene to sing the last song Everything again, while he prayed for all brothers and sisters, asking God to be everything in the life of everyone there. During this session, I could not hold on my tears and wept. On normal occasion, I won't cry even if I feel sad. But dunno why, while singing Christian hymns esp those touching ones, my tears would appear. Among the songs that touched my heart are Come Holy Spirit and To the ends of the earth.
PC presenting a souvenir to Bro Joseph
Afterwards, Bro Joseph ended Leg 4 with a word of prayer, thus bringing the whole camp to an end. By the time he finished praying, it's already past 12pm. Then, PC presented a souvenir to Bro Joseph, thanking him for willing to be the speaker for the camp. She also reminded all the campers to pack up and bring all their belongings to the dewan. While waiting for the bus to arrive, all the campers mingled with one another. Some even had a brief photo-taking session (I'm inclusive). Then, I took the opportunity to exchange contact numbers and e-mails with other campers.
Some of the photos I took that day:
A thorn btwn 4 lovely flowers
Me with the 4 group leaders (from left): Mun Yee (Hope), Shirley (Faith), Patty (Courage) & Pei Lee (Perseverance)
Me with my 2 'mums' KLynn (left) and PC (right)
Thanks for everything!! Luv u both!!
Triple A: (from left) Alvis, Anthony & Alex
During this time, some ppl went around to ask who was their encourager of the camp. Actually on the 1st day, we randomly picked the ppl we're supposed to encourage throughout the camp (something similar ot guardian angels). Both the guys and girls did the same for their same gender friends. Curiously, I wondered who's mine. Then, unexpectedly, the guy whom I supposed to encourage was the person who encouraged me as well. But sadly, both me and Hau Chia didn't do our parts well. But don't worry, we'll continue encourage each other even after the camp ok.
Actually, this caring thing happened for 2nd time in a row. I mentioned that I've joined the CF Heroes camp last yr. On the 1st day of the camp itself, all the campers randomly pick another person and be their guardian angels throughout the camp. What they needed to do was to guard and care for the person but they had to do it secretly (i.e. asking other ppl to pass whatever things or messages to that person). At the end of 2nd day after supper, all the campers shared their thoughts abt the camp and then time to reveal who's the guardian angel. All the ppl shared abt what their guardian angels did for them during the camp and the guardian angels reveals themselves. I noticed that the persons who cared for and cared by another person were totally different. But for me, I'm the guardian angel to a girl named Andrea Chan and coincidentally, to my surprise, she's my guardian angel as well.
Around 1.30pm, the bus came. And we left the campsite both happily and heavy-heartedly. Happy that the camp was over but the race of life continues after the camp. But feel sad at the same time cos we're leaving the NS campsite. Nvm, there's always some photos to reflect and ponder the time we've spent there. Balik kampung time. Weee... the bus dropped by Kampar first, then to Ipoh. Reached CBGC Campus Connect around 2.30pm. All (except Lishia, Sin Yee, Koon Yan & Stephen Chin who will be heading back to Ipoh that day) unboarded the bus together with their bags. Then, those remaining ones went for lunch at nearby eatery shop before going their separate ways. And I arrived at 1543 around 3pm. Thanks for sending me home, Shirley!
See u all back in Campus Connect soon!!!
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