ICF Camp "WHY LOVE?"

Hey people,

You asked, you waited and here it finally is, the updates on the "Why Love" camp. I sincerely apologize for the delay but better late than never right? Haha, let us proceed, the camp for those of you who don't know took place from the 18th to the 21st of August. This camp was aimed at opening the way for seeds to be planted in many of our campers to keep their faith strong, to learn God's word and to have an awesome time doing it too. There were many activities and games planned that helped the campers bond and new friendships to grow.

The photo's here are courtesy of Mark Hwang, one of our campers

Here is the timeline of what we did during camp

Day 1 : We left an hour late unfortunately and so we arrived an hour late (big surprise haha). After lunch, everyone was gathered back into the hall for groupings. Each group was asked to perform an action which was stated on a paper in their name tags. The rules were that everyone group had to come up with a cheer. Dang it was funny hahaha XD. The games group leaders were Kevin Phang, Tan Swee Vien, Kevin Tan, Samson Yap, Jessica Loke, and Sarah Low. Later in the day, games were awesome. Our first session, WHY LOVE 1, praise and worship was led by Tan Swee Vien. Pastor Victor took over and talked about how names are important and God looks at it.

Day 2 : We got Desmond( aka Desilah Pow XD) who is our camp's ALARM CLOCK woke us up sharp at 7. Without fail, everyday, the siren blares at 7am, look at it this way, we don't waste any time at all =P. Then the day resumed with the usual morning exercise which actually turned out well, pretty cool. After breakfast, all were gathered in the hall for our second session, WHY LOVE 2, and praise and worship which was led by Christine Ong. Pastor Vic talked about our famous topic "BGR part 1"(Boy-Girl relationship). Well, it definitely attracted many people with his story and jokes and given the fact that many of us like to hear info on the topic haha. After the second session, it was time for lunch followed by a resting time. Later in the day, the campers took part in station games. Later on at we had another rest break followed soon by dinner. This is where ICF implemented the monetary system of "bank notes" as an incentive for the games session. In the meantime, the worship team got together to practice and they ended up having their dinner late, sorry guys. So later, praise and worship was led by Kevin Tan followed by an enlightening sharing session by Pastor Victor.

Day 3 : It's the final day of camp and we started the day again of as usual, with MORNING EXERCISE (grumble) =P. After which we went for breakfast and then we all gathered back into the hall for our last session, WHY LOVE 4. Yeah worship was led by Phil G. Among all it was the fastest praise and worship. The third day was the most exciting day. Everyone was looking forward to the main event among all the games planned which was the spectacular and gargantuan HYDRO-WAR. Every games group leader got their members to get their weapons ready. Some used water guns and some used spraying bottles for this skirmish between elite water fighters haha. After a good drenching, it was up to the beach for some games just for fun. At night, we had campfire but the fire had trouble staying alight but During the time more importantly, the amazing Race was going on.

Day 4 : Nothing much. Just lots of packing and getting stuff good. All were good and it was time to head back home after an eventful and funfilled camp.

Well that's more or less what happened, now what's a big event like this without photos, TONS and TONS of photos. Haha.

The campers arrive



Pastor Vic enlightening the campers




Morning Exercise



WHY LOVE?

The campers




The Band!

GAMES!!













































A "Happy" Camper














































GROUP GAME WINNERS














Best Camper- Male




Best Camper- Female




Most Psycho Camper! =P




Time to head back home!




The CAMPERS =D




The committee!

And so as we come to a close, the camp was in my opinion indeed quite enjoyable even though I spent majority of the time behind a camera, I managed to get a piece of the action in Hydro-War when I was squirted in the face with a water gun lol. Hard work was a necessity to keep this camp running but great fun and memories was repayment enough as well as learning some important lessons that help us walk towards a better tommorow. Amen.

Yours Truly
Phillip