Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Hi all!
I think me and poey will be alternating between blog entries haha, yay the LOG blog is revived! thanks poey for that wonderful sharing!
Confirmation camp was a very interesting experience for me. Many things to share! Sharing are in blocks, doesn't flow haha, just points that arise in my head k?
I thought the whole camp was really well done, sessions were pitched at a level where the confirmands could relate to. the sharings were all amazing and so touching. Could really feel the Holy Spirit linking all the sessions together and the flow of the camp. (COMPLAINT BELOW LOL)
I had this amazing feeling for the two nights, the first praying with and second, the parents night. I felt that I could just suck in the atmosphere of all the emotions and it is so overwhelming. I could that so much emotions in the air that it was bringing me to the verge of tears, because it was so touching. Truely, the Holy Spirit was present in touching the hearts of many. I felt like I could sense the "traffic" of emotions - so cool right haha.
The confirmands opened up really fast and praise God. Indeed, as Tim Tan chose the song "God in this city", greater things have yet to come. Hope many of them will stay in church and in ministry! So I urge those who are interested to be their formators to tell me k?
I was pretty harsh during the camp I must say and I think I may have offended some people. But you see, in my own opinion, as facils, or service team for that matter, we need that discipline to be innate. to know when to be quiet, when to control your confirmands, and to always look at the bigger picture. By being "(overly) understanding", would be compromising an experience of the confirmands wouldn't it? I could never understand how facils cannot keep quiet when walking in a corridor while the confirmands are inside the room reflecting on something v serious. But I must say, I did not do it in the best way possible. I really respect and praise God for Shaun Lim who kept his cool throughout camp.
Rmb the Cornerstone's session on evangelisation? They quoted this bible verse, Revelations 3:16 "Since you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth." This struck me during camp, the thing about being lukewarm. I think LOG has come to a point in time where we are called to move forward. When I tell myself sometimes that its alright, because (fill in reasons), then I also think so when will be THE time when all the reasons and circumstances have been solved and we start moving forward? I find myself challenging myself and I now present the challenge to you all as well! I am doing this not because I am not an understanding person, its just that I feel that God should not be compromised in our lives. Living as a Christian is not separate from our lives as ourselves.
This previous two paras may reveal to yall the side of me who does not compromise something which i think is important and hence my attitude and views towards these kinda issues. We are God's instruments - yes we leave the direction and end result to Him, and let Him work through us. But we still need to do it to the best of our ability. this was something i reflected upon during a retreat last year.
----COMPLAINT----
Cept for one session, Shireen's session, which i felt (also due to my biasness) that it was a bit too draggy and teaching-style. Had a bad experience with her session last year as well - I just feel like she likes to go on and on to talk about things and isn't focused on bringing points across. What happened was, she taught on the gifts of the Holy Spirit - not exactly a very interesting topic but the worst way to bring it across is to teach it point-by-point. I just switched off and left the room, went to Cheryl's office. Then von and cheryl told me to go up and tell kenny to tell shireen to end in 5 minutes. ok so i thought, they'll wrap it up. Simeon gave a shorten sharing cause of that then i was thinking, ok closing prayer and lets go, otherwise will be late for mass. Then OMG, she took over the mike, continued talking about what Simeon had shared about which in my opinion, was redundant because how can anything be more important than being on time for mass? So i got really irritated but i controlled myself, hurried down to help take the books for confirmands for mass. Glad I could control myself, but really, i need to vent it somewhere somehow huh.
----END COMPLAINT---
wah its very messy =) haha
Mark
Hi all!
I think me and poey will be alternating between blog entries haha, yay the LOG blog is revived! thanks poey for that wonderful sharing!
Confirmation camp was a very interesting experience for me. Many things to share! Sharing are in blocks, doesn't flow haha, just points that arise in my head k?
I thought the whole camp was really well done, sessions were pitched at a level where the confirmands could relate to. the sharings were all amazing and so touching. Could really feel the Holy Spirit linking all the sessions together and the flow of the camp. (COMPLAINT BELOW LOL)
I had this amazing feeling for the two nights, the first praying with and second, the parents night. I felt that I could just suck in the atmosphere of all the emotions and it is so overwhelming. I could that so much emotions in the air that it was bringing me to the verge of tears, because it was so touching. Truely, the Holy Spirit was present in touching the hearts of many. I felt like I could sense the "traffic" of emotions - so cool right haha.
The confirmands opened up really fast and praise God. Indeed, as Tim Tan chose the song "God in this city", greater things have yet to come. Hope many of them will stay in church and in ministry! So I urge those who are interested to be their formators to tell me k?
I was pretty harsh during the camp I must say and I think I may have offended some people. But you see, in my own opinion, as facils, or service team for that matter, we need that discipline to be innate. to know when to be quiet, when to control your confirmands, and to always look at the bigger picture. By being "(overly) understanding", would be compromising an experience of the confirmands wouldn't it? I could never understand how facils cannot keep quiet when walking in a corridor while the confirmands are inside the room reflecting on something v serious. But I must say, I did not do it in the best way possible. I really respect and praise God for Shaun Lim who kept his cool throughout camp.
Rmb the Cornerstone's session on evangelisation? They quoted this bible verse, Revelations 3:16 "Since you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth." This struck me during camp, the thing about being lukewarm. I think LOG has come to a point in time where we are called to move forward. When I tell myself sometimes that its alright, because (fill in reasons), then I also think so when will be THE time when all the reasons and circumstances have been solved and we start moving forward? I find myself challenging myself and I now present the challenge to you all as well! I am doing this not because I am not an understanding person, its just that I feel that God should not be compromised in our lives. Living as a Christian is not separate from our lives as ourselves.
This previous two paras may reveal to yall the side of me who does not compromise something which i think is important and hence my attitude and views towards these kinda issues. We are God's instruments - yes we leave the direction and end result to Him, and let Him work through us. But we still need to do it to the best of our ability. this was something i reflected upon during a retreat last year.
----COMPLAINT----
Cept for one session, Shireen's session, which i felt (also due to my biasness) that it was a bit too draggy and teaching-style. Had a bad experience with her session last year as well - I just feel like she likes to go on and on to talk about things and isn't focused on bringing points across. What happened was, she taught on the gifts of the Holy Spirit - not exactly a very interesting topic but the worst way to bring it across is to teach it point-by-point. I just switched off and left the room, went to Cheryl's office. Then von and cheryl told me to go up and tell kenny to tell shireen to end in 5 minutes. ok so i thought, they'll wrap it up. Simeon gave a shorten sharing cause of that then i was thinking, ok closing prayer and lets go, otherwise will be late for mass. Then OMG, she took over the mike, continued talking about what Simeon had shared about which in my opinion, was redundant because how can anything be more important than being on time for mass? So i got really irritated but i controlled myself, hurried down to help take the books for confirmands for mass. Glad I could control myself, but really, i need to vent it somewhere somehow huh.
----END COMPLAINT---
wah its very messy =) haha
Mark