YAF Retreat 2006

In case folks are wondering why haven't i blogged for the past few days. I was away with the youths of my church having our retreat. This post will be long so please bear with me as i update what happened over the past few days.

Day 1(11/05)
As i mentioned earlier on, i had insomnia the night before and updated a little about it here. After being awake and unable to fall asleep, i made some arrangements for the transport to go to Changi Aloha. So i arranged to pick jonah and seok imm at seok imm's place near church. Then fiona called me to say she'll be able to meet me. So i decided to pick her up as well. As Caleb and Haomin already made arrangements for me to pick them up at tampines, i said i'll pick them up at 310pm. I then went to pack my bag for the retreat to ensure that i will not have anything missing.

Near lunch time, i took a short drive to buy comics at Yishun. So i managed to get my comics and on the way back, decided that my car will likely be unable to squeeze 6 people and 1 Driver with bags and other items. So told caleb that i'll pick him up at 4pm instead. At 2pm, i left my home and took a quick drive to seok imm's place to pick her up. Got there at the appointed time of 230pm before driving off to fiona's place to pick her up. After which, i drove to the chalet to do the check in. So i checked to confirm the items in the chalet before driving off to tampines to pick caleb and haomin up. On our way back, we decided to stop at changi village to buy dinner for the 6 of us at the chalet. So we waited till the rest turned up later at 7plus.

We then had our first message by Rev Tang before a forum session by Uncle Joseph. After which, we all washed up and slept. Or rather, most people slept, i was awake again in my sleeping bag. So i just looked around and zombied a little before giving up at 3am to do some morning devotions. Then stopped at 4am to catch some rest and ended up waking 530am because could not sleep anymore.

Day 2(12/05)
We started the day with congregational prayer at 7am before taking our breakfast at 8am. We had our 2nd message of the camp and then had preparation for the gospel skit we were to present later in the night. We then had lunch followed by the 2nd Forum. The sharing part of the forum had a number dozing off due to the weather (it was very warm) as well as the lunch just before. After the forum, we had some games planned. But due to the rain, it was called off and we went to work on our skit. Thank God the rained stopped and we were able to have our BBQ. After the BBQ, we had our last forum followed by the skit presentation.

After the skit, we broke off and went to wash up and prepare our own things. Around 12, we decided to conduct our own overnight prayer in the camp. It really was a blessed time we had having the young adults to come together to pray on our own. It was a time that the Lord blessed. We moved out of the room at 1 to allow those who were tired to sleep and continued till 1.40am before we stopped. We then went to sleep.

Didn't really sleep again. Managed to get around 2 hours of sleep (not continuous) before waking up at 530am. Woke up with a very numb right ankle. Think its probably due to the lack of blood circulation while i rested.

Day 3(13/05)
Started the day with congregational prayer. Then left at 8am to send rach to the MRT before making my way back for breakfast. We then had the last message of the retreat before we had to pack up our things and prepared to leave the chalet.

Made arrangements to bring back the various things from church and then transport arrangements for everyone. Thank God for the wonderful time of blessing we had in the retreat. Truly after this retreat, i can walk by Faith and not by sight.

Later events is the Talk on IRs in church (3pm) and choir practise after that.