Assembly Fellowship Camp - Day 3

This morning Manna title was "Whatever will be, Will be".
To cut everything short, the main points were:
God gives us a choice to be what we want to be, Freedon to choose comes with the Consequences that we will be what we will be, God makes us accountable for our choice.
God can control the Circumstances if we want to be in the centre of His will.

Then we had our 3rd session. Before speaker Joseph John says anything, he distributed us a few notes, with the title related to singleness and so. I knew Ysan will be mad to see this kind of talk. I was trying to calm her down and ask her to just listen with an open heart.

To me, I think we cannot avoid this kind of topic. This is not a bad topic afterall. We have to learn this from some where. There's only 2 categories, either we are single or we are married. No matter what God still has to prepare us for it. Ya, some people don't get it and asked what to prepare about? Single single la, married married la... But it's not that simple ok!!! So many things that we need to know and prepare ourselves.

If it's to be single, God has to prepare us to understand that one day our parents will not be with us anymore, our siblings will be married and have their own family and our friends will be married and have their own family too. We have to be prepared to face the loneliness that we might be in, looking at walls when we are home after a long day of work. Looking at the phone but don't know who to call when we have something that we want to share with others. Are you prepared for this?

If it's to be married, God has to prepared us to be able to live and share everything with another person whom you call life partner. We can't do whatever we want or simply make any decision we like, we have to take into consideration the other person's feeling and the other person's decision. We have to learn to respect the differences and do things TOGETHER. For girls, we have to be prepared to be submissive to the other person. A big lesson to learn. Are you prepared for this?

This session turned out to be a good one, not what I thought, not what she thought too. Joseph John told us we don't have to feel less useful to God when we are single and we are no less than anyone. The first and natural state of human is to be single. Single doesn't mean un-married. You can't tell a 3-year old boy that he's un-married. It's just married people are no longer single. We shouldn't be feeling less blessed if we are single.

Few phrases from the slides:
Our identity is to be based on Christ, not marital status.
Our sense of security is to be found in our relationship to Him.
Our definitions of intimacy must begin with friendship, not with marriage.
Our definitions of achievement, especially for women, must be broader than parenthood.

One thing for sure.... nothing mentioned about match-making!!!!

Followed by Forum Q&A session. Hmm... nothing much. My questions were not answered.

After lunch, I asked Joseph John for a moment. We went outside and had a little chat. There is this secret which I have been keeping for quite a long while. Didn't tell anyone. Just thought he will be the right person for me to consult with. Ya, indeed, he's the perfect person. He has opened my eyes to see things from different angle and try to help me out from that little problem. O well, it's easy to say I understand and I know what to do next. But to really overcome it... need lots of prayers and time.

We had a relay thing in the afternoon. Simple game to occupy some time. At least it bonded the group members as we worked together for the challenges.

Captain ball time! The rule was to have 4 guys and 7 girls, but out of the only 4 guys from our group, 2 were injured. So only 2 guys running around the field, and the worst thing was there were only 9 girls in our group, which means all of us will have to play non-stop for all the games. We played 2 games (against 2 teams) for 12min per half. Altogether 48mins non-stop. It has been quite awhile I didn't play captain ball like this. Great exercise.

After the game, we were VERY tired. I went back to rest and chat with Emily. Most of them jumped into the pool and enjoyed the facility of the nice swimming pool.

At night, we had this talent time session where every group will have to perform a sketch of different bible characters. Our group was to act about David. We chose the story about David and Bethsheba and modernized it into an office scene where the Director is Mr.D and the secretary is Betty. It was really funny. Didn't know Terence and Vivien can act that well. They really impressed us.
I quite like the other group who did the Moses story. It was very creative. They did a musical performance where they change the "Long time ago in Bethlehem" song into a Moses song where they acted out very nicely. They deserved the win.

Last night, most of them were up til very late, chit chatting with their friends. I'm supposed to join them for fellowship and socializing but... but... I was not feeling well, head was very heavy. So I decided to just sleep right after the supper.