YF Camp 2005

Recently, I attended the Youth Fellowship Combined Camp 2005 held at Port Klang Gospel Hall. It was themed "My Way or God's Way" which was rather inappropriate, as the main workshop was "No Apologies". Anyway, here's a day-to-day account of my enriching experience at my first camp:

Day 1

I checked in at 8.30pm, and put my bags aside. Than we have an ice breaker where there are games, most notoriously the "Chicken Dance", brainchild of Colin. Than we had another game, "Would You Like to Be My Friend" from Colin and Ser Young. After that, we had supper, than all headed for our respective sleeping floors.

Day 2

We were awaken at 7am, although many of us didn't get any sleep due to the noisy cockerel next door. Than there was group devotion at 7.45am with half of my group (the other half had their devotion in the church, they were all guys) outside in the hut. It was very breezy. Our girl group was the leader, Michelle See, Hoong Lyn, Say Yin and I. We talked about Galatians. Than there was breakfast after that.

When breakfast was over, our main activity was held. The "No Apologies" workshop was helmed by Bobby John and Mike, an officer from Focus on the Family. We sat and listened to an interesting talk for 4 hours. Yup! You heard right, 4 hours. We had lunch after that, and than there was a forum. Uncle Chee Beng, Uncle Chandran, Koko Chee Choong and Koko Adrian answered questions posed by anonymous people on pieces of paper. Some questions were normal, others weren't.

A fun and games session was held after that. I didn't join in, I just watched the rehearsal of the night's sketch. Than there was dinner for an hour, and we all assembled at the hall for a good news night. First there was the sketch, starring Joshua, Sean, Cheryl and Nadia, and four extras: me, Kym, Alyssa and Nyuet Fen as "plenty other fishes in the sea". It was supper, than bed - or sleeping bag.

Day 3

It was the last day and we had to rise and shine early for we were joining the adults for the breaking of bread. It would be a "solemn and quiet" meeting, so it was required for attire to be "decent and modest" as quoted by Koko Adrian. When the worship meeting ended at 10.30am, we headed for the kitchen to have our breakfast. Than at 11am we sat in on a simulation exercise managed by Uncle Andrew. It was very fun!

Lunch was at 1pm, and at 2pm was our last meeting. Koko Adrian talked about lots of stuff, mostly related to the previous day's workshop. His talks were always very interesting, and this one was not an exception. At 3.30pm we all headed back to our respective homes, thankful that we attended the camp.