Church Camp 2008

Theme : His presence, My passion

This year's church camp was held in Kampar.

Where IS Kampar, you might ask? It's a small town in Perak, just after Tapah. We spent 3 nights and 4 days at the Grand Kampar Hotel and it's real value for $$. The numbers just didn't add up. Great food, nice accomodation (some described it this way : clean toilets and fluffy pillows), comfortable hall for our meetings... what more could we ask for?

About 150 of us signed up for camp and there were many who were first-timers.

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Rev. Irvin Rutherford (who is no stranger to us) was our camp speaker. He was simply amazing. He had so much energy even though he's in his 70s.

His messages, in a nutshell, can be summarised into one sentence - BE the presence of God. And the reason why we are not "being" the presence of God is because of our disobedience. Therefore, to be constantly in the presence of God, we need to obey Him.

Worship was a blast! The youths and young adults took over most (if not all) of the worship sessions. For the first time in so many years, we didn't have a drummer. PTL! Worship was still great. We could really feel God's presence moving among us. There were many words of exhortations and of encouragement. Awesome!

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We had water baptism up at the roof-top swimming pool. Three people were baptised and one of them was FC - we were thoroughly shocked because we didn't know that he wasn't baptised prior to this. He was under the water a few seconds longer than the others :)

GAMES

Orange & Gold Teams

Blue & Red Teams

Green & Pink Teams

We were divided into 6 groups of which one group has about 15-16 people. Mine was the Orange Team.

For the 1st hour, we were given two sets of questionaires where we had to answer all of it based on the clues given. Some of it were common sense and Bible questions, while others required us to walk around to look for clues. There were "trick" questions too.

We weren't certain of one or two answers and asked the other team if they were willing to "trade" answers. We gave them a good (correct) answer but when they told us one of their answer, we were positive they were wrong!!!! What an unfair trade.

Ping Pong game. The adults had to bounce the ball on a ping pong bat.. which actually looks easy, but it certainly wasn't. The glare of the sun light streaming through the bay windows and glass doors didn't help either. The children just had to make sure the ping pong ball didn't fall off to the ground.

For this game, we need to blow and tie 5 balloons. Each person has to carry (without using their fingers) 5 balloons. We were smart enough to put one or two under our t-shirts.

Drinking water! How difficult can it get? Well, you don't know how difficult it was to finish one cup of water. The games coordinators later told us that we're actually drinking water through a straw that was pierced with at least 13 small holes. No wonder!

By the time we played this game, we were down to about 9 or 10 people in a team. This watermelon game was kinda messy. The first person had to slice the melon into 9 pieces using a "butter" knife!!!! It was difficult, especially if you do not have the strength.

While the rest of the team gobbled their share of watermelon, AndrewT took his own sweet time finishing his portion before sauntering back. Eddy gave Edwin and I a tip. It's not to finish "Eating" the watermelon... all you had to do is finish it! So when Edwin went there, he ate .. but didn't swallow any watermelon. Most of it went to the ground.

I was last person in my team to eat the watermelon. I did the same as Edwin... and the only difference was that I tried to at least eat a little of the watermelon - which I did. Esther took a movie clip of my "gross" eating habit and showed it to all campers (!!!)

Catch the water balloon! Andrew, the catcher, got so wet because the pail was filled with water.

We had all three meals in the hotel and the food was first class.

On Monday night, Aunty Chris invited Qing and some of the youths for supper at a nearby Mamak store. Qing then invited me to go along, which I did.

On the prize-giving night, there were still other games to be played. For the game above, 7 adults were chosen. The game is... you have to use a pair of chopsticks and pick up as many marbles (in soaped water). Su-Ann got the most!

One parent, one child. Parent to dress their child with toilet toll to see who can come out with the best wrapped mumy.

Drinking one 500ml bottle of Pepsi should not be a problem. The only problem is to finish it in record time!



Wife to feed the husband coffee in a milk bottle!!!



Well, don't you think that from the above pictures, camp was GREAT?