I am back from camp!!! It’s alr 1 week though..

Some background info of myself- I had been to many camps. Be it school, NPCC, or church camps. Due to personal fears, I don't like to speak up in front of large groups and take lead. I would go with the flow and rather be a follower. I'm afraid the things I said won't work and people don't follow. In short, fear of failure.

The day before the camp, I was on the bed thinking about the previous camps. Man, I felt so yucky of my actions. Just being a tagger, contributed nothing to the group and follow blindly.
“Oh God, I want to be different this time. I don’t want to be an ordinary camper. I want people to spot the difference in me from the rest of the campers. I don’t know how, I don’t know when.. God, I know you can. Prompt me and I will do it.”

True enough, God speaks.. I can’t say that throughout the 3D2N camp, all the campers know me. The things I did might not be obvious, but I know I made a difference in some people’s life. (:

God, You seriously ROCK my world! :D

This camp was an eye opener for me.
Questions popped up in my mind.

What’s the difference between leaders and spiritual leaders?
Both leaders lead with enthusiasm, influence the people, bond the team, have followers.
One thing I realised is that spiritual leaders don’t just lead, they care about the team members holistically. Spiritual leaders care for our physical and emotional part which most leaders tend to miss out. This became obvious to me when I was one of the casualties. Haha!

The theme of the camp is perseverance.
It makes me wonder about this, why do people persevere?
People (We) persevered on because we know what we want. We pulled through the tough trainings (scolding, pumping under the scorching sun, woken up at 3.30am to do PT) as we know we want to be OGLs.
Perseverance comes only when we know our goals clearly. And we know at the end of the day, our efforts will be paid off.

One thing that hit me so hard is this: We are responsible of our lives.
In this camp, my group don’t have the best in-charge. We are left on our own most of the time. However, our group came up with good performance, cheers and have the team spirit. We came in first for one of the activity with limited resources! I believe everyone plays a part in contributing and spurring one another on. We can’t always depend on the in-charge for instructions; we need to lead ourselves before leading others.

Elyssa Valerie(:

♥That Faithfulness♥♥

Name:♥NorthA♥
Age:♥All ages are okay !♥
♥Grow and rising to have more shepherd!♥