Our publicity team visited Holy Covenant MC on Sunday. Yup if you've been keenly following this blog, you'll know that my church teamed up Holy Covenant to go on a mission trip to Buru last year. It felt kinda different from my visits to the other churches as I felt really at home there! Coz like last year we actually organised some captains ball friendlies together, so like some of the guys said, "Hey i recognise you!", then I was like "Yeah we played captains ball together last year!". Wow they actually remembered me haha.. There were also people in the camp com like a guy called Jun An, who was so helpful in giving out the brochures and encouraging the youths to go for the camp. So like it was really encouraging to have people help the publicity crew.

"why do we need to connect?"

clearly enjoying our video!

Also met the lovely Pastor Cynthia, who's been so instrumental in getting speakers for the workshops. Seriously, its a really really impressive list of speakers, so please come for the camp and listen to them share!

yeah, we also had lunch together, and I got to talk to more people (esp the youth advisor Guowei who was sitting next to me. found out a lot about their youth ministry from him!). really felt great as I really managed to CONNECT with them even though their from another church. They made me feel like part of their family even though i wasn't from their church.

And I guess that's the beauty about connecting, you kinda realise that apart from your church, there are Christian youths out there who are just the same as you. And it even more beautiful these friendships start to develop.

I guess that's the purpose of this year's CONNECT! camp. To form the first contact so that in the future, even 10 years down the road I can go to another CAC church and say "Wait a minute, I know you... and you... and you!!!" And like we could just go to each others churches once in a while and say hi to each other and ask how each others youth ministry is doing and stuff like that. You know then things like AWE Worship and Big Hooha won't feel so awkward anymore, coz we'll all know each other, and truly be one big family for Christ.

the form is in your hands. all you have to do is fill it up and come for the camp!