Tribe Camp Learnings

1. The need to listen to the voice of GOD and the consequences of wanting your own way.

Remember the game we played in the field when all of us were blindfolded and had to run from one end to the other end of the field? The only thing that guides our way is the voice of the partner, that’s all we have, nothing less, nothing more.
I witness a very interesting learning that happened to Wei Peng, it was kind of hilarious, but beyond that it lies a vitally important truth.

Wei Peng was running faster then his ‘Voice’ and the ‘Voice’ was chasing after him shouting ‘STOP! STOP! STOP!’ somehow, I’m not sure if he chose to ignore it or he couldn’t hear the ‘Voice,’ He kept running and running and BANG! He hit his head right on the grill of the gate!!! Ouch!

My friends, lets learn to listen and follow the voice of GOD. Wanting things our way hurts GOD because that’s sin, and more than that, it hurts us when we are left to face the consequences of our ‘Own ways’

2. The family is around when someone falls

The campfire finale when one spark was passed on to light up the whole tribe’s individual candle was a magnificent sight wasn’t it? Somehow, the strong winds were blowing and hard as we try to guard the flame from being extinguished, some of our flames did. . The moment when mine went off, I felt as if my effectiveness of shining was gone. But thank GOD for the many lights from my family members, they re-kindled the candle light by passing their flame to me. Yes my family will be there to pick me up when I fall.

3. Our pastors Up lah!

As we were approaching the closure of the camp, I was like ‘huh’ and ‘How does celebrating Ps Joe’s dad’s birthday got to do with us?’ But when I finally saw how far our pastors went to bring across the message to us about honoring and respecting our parents, I was like “Respect and salutes.” They don’t have to do that, but they leave aside any reasons of trouble or fear that we will make noise to show us how we should respect our parents. That really showed me to go all the way to seize the opportunity to want to impart my lives to others. Thank GOD for our pastors who seize every opportunity to want to teach us!