Recently, our first church camp was held at the Kota Tinggi Resort in Johor. It was fun and enjoyable, there are about 100 of us and I may say that this camp is one of the most enjoyable camps I ever attended. Everyone was having fun and on fire! I gained and learned a lot from this jumpstart camp, this camp was called "jumpstart' because the aim is to jumpstart our spiritual life. One of the most important lessons I learned from this camp is time management, during the camp, we are given workshops for time and money management, dancing, body-building, make-up and etc and I participated for time and money management’s workshop.
Before this, I have never think of the importance of time management, I never had a proper schedule, I just simply do what I want to do and never really manage my time properly. But little do I know that every successful person is actually an expert in managing their time, they manage their time in a proper way, they maximize their time and make full use of it and they become a very successful person. As our workshop's instructor, Dan Ong explained to us, I was very astonished and at the same time felt sad on how I manage my time, he gave us a piece of paper with a 168 small boxes from Monday to Sunday, each boxes represent an hour, so he let us write a circle for how many hours do we spend on sleep, eat or drink, study or work, play, go to church, cell group, etc and he covers all the necessity that we need to do in our daily life. In the end, I was shocked on how many boxes are left un-circled, those un-circled boxes represent hours that are lost. There are about 40 boxes un-circled, that means almost 2 days in a week of my time lost somewhere and I didn't even know where it goes!
Then, Dan told us that it is because we didn't plan our time properly. When I think of it back, it was true, if we plan, the time will never be lost, the same thing happen to money, if we didn't have a proper plan for it, the money will lost somewhere else because time is equal to money. That is why rich people are getting richer because they know how to manage their time therefore they also know how to manage their money because money and time is related to each other. An illustration was given to us between a bus and taxi if we look in term of cost and time consume, taxi is more expensive and faster and bus is the other way round.
Why taxi is expensive? Because we can buy time! We pay expensive because we can arrive faster to our destination, simple explanation we bought time. Another illustration was given to us about wasting time! An engineer earns about rm50 an hour, a tuition teacher rm30, a famous celebrity rm50, 000 an hour! So imagine if we waste our time sitting or walking around doing nothing for about 3 hours, how much we have lost? So that's some of the activities that we do in the camp. During that time, we’re divided into several groups and were named based on car's accessories' part such as alternator, carburetor, and etc. We play a lot and enjoy ourselves, there was a time when we're asked to build a boat using a polystyrene and bottles and we have to put a 'passenger' on that boat and sail from one end to other end of the swimming pool with 60% of the passenger's body must no in contact with the water. It was really fun, and guess what? My team which is Alternator won the first place...cheh show off...hehe.
We did a lot of games such as amazing race, power station, water-volley ball, extreme-makeover and etc. However the most exciting game is Power Station, we have to light on our candle and prevent it from being blown off by our opponents, once the power generator's light was blown off, the whole team are considered lose. We played that game for almost 3 hours from 12 o'clock midnight until 3 am. Everybody was on fire, and even though our body was very tired but we continued to play, even some of the most quiet person become very ravenous when playing the game!...lol...haha. The next day, we woke up early in the morning for our quiet time then we have to go for breakfast before going for session, the session was great with Dev as the preacher, he was the leader in the City Harvest Church JB. I learned a lot from him, and when he preaches everything that went out from his mouth is an inspirational word that inspires young generation to strive forward to become the impacting generation!
On the final night, before going home the next day, we had a talent time, it was very funny as everybody has to act in front of judges and church members, and we had our memorable moment during that time. On the final day, we had our last session then result announcements were made and my group won the first prize! I wish the camp will be a bit longer, however we can't stay at a camp forever because life must go on, when we start something there must be an end to it.
However, I felt grateful and thankful to God as I get the chance to participate on this jumpstart camp. There will always be a church camp and next year if I’m still around, I will surely participate on another fun, enjoyable and glorious Church camp, so that's all I’m want to share with all blog’s readers which is usually my friends or my family, thanks for your time and God Bless You!
