A BIG Phew!
We couldn't have done it without God's strength. I'm not going to elaborate cuz it would be one of those long, draggy and boring review.
I'm just gonna focus on the main highlights: the sessions, the hike and the movie.
The sessions:
To my surprise, I found it quite useful and meaningful. God's Holy Spirit was really speaking through Eugene as he talked about the 7 C's of making a decision. (Wanna know what it was? Should've come for the VBS then XD). I think many were touched when Eugene played the 40 min sermon by Louie Giglio on his 'Indescribable Tour'. Just how small we are and how great God is.
The hike:
Oh my goodness. Getting stuck in an hour long of traffic jam was definitely NOT the ideal start for the hike. However, throughout the hike I saw a lot of teamwork, unity and caringness coming out of the teens. Me, being unfit was stuck behind with Mang Eng and it was very encouraging to have people motivating you from behind and forward. When both of us reached a point they were like cheering on. That was exhilirating! Though my muscles are killing me so bad right now I hope that we can have more hikes like yesterday. It was not only fun but the fellowship was priceless =)
The movie:
I must admit that the timing for the movie was a bit inappropriate. I myself nearly knocked off halfway during the show. It was Eugene's closure at the end that really mattered. We had three new friends that joined us. Hopefully they will come again for TC
The night before the VBS, I was feeling insecure, unpeaceful, scared, frustrated, discouraged and doubtful. But God has shown me that nothing is impossible with Him and this year's VBS has happened the way it is because God wanted to teach me. I thank God for it.
Let me just post a blogpost courtesy of Brooke Ligertwood. I found it really encouraging after what I went through on this VBS. It's a bit long but if you have the time, please make time to have a read.
An Over-My-Head Epiphany
29 May 2009 // B-Lig
It was a Tuesday night a few weeks ago. I was on a stage, sweating, singing, pray-thinking. About Jesus, my inadequacy, the art He makes out of my junk, the people in front of me and the art He wants to make out of their junk: the usual.
I looked up and noticed something I hadn’t noticed until that point… Probably because I had my eyes closed for most of the time… (the metaphors are kicking in).
Our resident lighting ‘artiste’ - “3rd Grade” we call him - is a talented man. I thought he must be pulling out the big guns and doing something extra spesh… from the back of the building streaming toward me and over my head were hundreds of shafts of light, pulsing from a single point and fanning out toward a destination somewhere behind me.
I must have stared up at this for a few songs in a row. It was beautiful. Symphonic. Cinematic. Each ray of light would turn, move, change colour - dancing in sync with all the others yet completely itself. I had never seen 3rd Grade use this effect before and was steadying myself to give him a big pat on the back afterward, when I got the urge to turn around and look at where the shaft-light-things were heading.
And as it turned out, 3rd Grade’s whizz bang trick was no whizz bang trick at all. It was only the projector, casting the live camera feed onto the screen above the stage. All the beams of light were travelling from the same origin, going forward and coming together to create a single, moving image.
Maybe that’s not unlike you and I and how we feel sometimes. Kinda dancing along alone in the darkness. But maybe if we could see things from a different angle - above or below - or a different dimension outside our time-bound context – eternity - we would see what we are… part of the greater visual chorus, making up a small but essential pixel in the great big picture God is creating through the collision of our unredeemed humanity and his great redemption plan.
I should open my eyes more often.
-B-Lig
