It started on Wednesday, April 8th and lasted only until the next day. Just a matter of fact, it is the first time that our youth ministry ventured into organizing our own youth camp outside and away from church. Normally, camps are inter-church - we get to camp for about 4 or 5 days together, with many many of us from different churches form different places. Those camps were held yearly. I have started joining our youth ministry and our church as well when I joined my first youth camp in 2004. Unfortunately this year, the global financial crisis has had its own impact on the churches, including the governing body. It was found out that a major youth camp just like what have been done in the years before couldn't be afforded by the majority. So it was decided a camp will still be held this year, only it's a leadership camp wherein only a maximum of five representatives, particularly youth leaders from each church should join, so the expenses would not be so damaging to the churches (who would voluntarily sponsor representatives), and even to the governing body (which will be organizing the camp and perhaps funding it) as well.
So this year, what we had was a two-day, one-night camp for and with only the young people from our church, plus others who were invited.
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I really would love to go on and continue typing the whole experience while it's fresh but I'm getting more and more sleepy and I think if I continue like this, I might finish writing at 3 or 4 in the morning with mixed up words and hardly understandable sentence constructions. And beside I need to grab a good sleep (although it's late now) with which I think I have been deficient of late. So this post will serve as just the introduction to my review of the past camp/retreat that we had. With a fresh mind tomorrow, I will complete the picture with the stories, lessons learned and my opinions about it.
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