Genting Here I Come

* This post has been edited to reflect a very different opinion from the original because I changed my mind about it. Easy as that =) If you didn't get a chance to read the original, don't worry, you didn't miss anything

Some of you may not know, but my church camp is this weekend. It's great 'cause this is one of the most free-er camps for me. Every year I would be rushing to plan the camp or design the booklet or plan worship... but this year is special - I'm not involved heavily at all, except for just leading worship in one session. No complains there.

There are 2 things that really stuck to my mind from last year's camp which I would like to share.


1 I took a gamble and designed a very different looking booklet last year. Usually booklets would be an A4 folded in half and the cover would be colored paper while the insides would be normal white A4 paper right? I took that idea and threw it out the window. What came out of that was entirely self printed and self made, 'mini booklets'! It was the size of a quarter of an A4 folded in half. The cover was printed in color on glossy paper.

The final product looked great! And I was quite proud of it. The whole idea was to give you just enough information in a mini sized booklet so that you can stuff it inside your pocket during the camp. All of the usual camp information was inside except one omission that would bring the most complaints in the end - empty pages to write camp notes on.

My rational was that if you are one of the very little minority that wrote notes down during camps, you would already have your own note book specially for such a task, like a dear friend who use to attend my church had (she had this note book where she would whip out every Sunday to write down notes from the sermon, it was pretty cool, it had pictures and stuff...). And for the ones who don't usually write notes, would appreciate the portable size of the 'mini booklet'. Apparently not a good enough rationale -_-"


2 It was the second night, and to be honest, I wasn't on my best form. Somehow, these are the moments that God really shines through for me. Anyway, I was doing the worship and as we proceed deeper into worship, things started to get really heavy, and I mean that in a good way.

You know when you're in a worship session and there's just this amazing sweep of the Holy Spirit as the session continues on? and it just keeps getting more and more powerful, that everyone eventually gets so drawn into worshiping God, that you'll begin to see the craziest things happen?

like people who don't usually jump, jumping? people who are quiet, end up praising God at the top of their voices? people who are usually totally in control of themselves, start crying? Yeah, it became something like that =)

So as all these things begin to happen, you know me, I didn't end up just standing there... I was jumping! And as I jumped, I started to move about, from the left to the right (it was quite a big area)! I mean it was awesome and I was so excited at that moment...

In my head, it was great. I've never been in a session like that, where I was the worship leader, and got to see things like that happen. I mean, pastors were crying as well!

I believe that the church really came together that night, giving God all the worship and praise that He deserves. And it was really obvious that the God was moving in our midst. That experience is permanently stuck in my brain, no doubt about that.

* the second picture is just a random picture of me and my dad during the outdoor games, didn't have any picture of the worship session that night.


The whole camp was amazing, and knowing that this year we'll finally have everyone attending is making me feel really excited! I think we're going to have a super time together.