Back from a spiritually and emotionally refreshing SMUCF camp! Have to say I really enjoyed it, the people, fellowship, games, messages. All were wonderfully planned by the Planning Comm (thanks Kenji and Co.!) Twas held at the LKCSB, our messages were held in a SR, group discussions were at various GSRs, and we had separate sleeping rooms fer guys and gals in 2 different CRs. (haha, unique acronyms for SMU rooms!)

Justus, Celest, and myself made up a strong contingent from FERC! (Enoch joined us for day 2). But there were many others from various churches and denominations, ranging from the BP churches to the Charismatics to those who had not attended a church service before (hooray to Xing Yan!)

Highlights:

• Messages and Discussions on Colossians: The Ultimate Qualification

We had a series of talks by full-time staff worker, James, covering the book of Colossians in the New Testament. The topic for the camp was The Ultimate Qualification. Discussions after each message were good. Naturally, during the first discussion, the freshies were rather quiet, but by the last discussion, everyone was much more willing to discuss their thoughts on the passage and also share about their personal lives and struggles. Kudos to the seniors! (Zai, Daryl, Luwin, Perry, Corlissa, Evelyn, Michelle)

• Fellowship with Christian friends

It was a joy to meet and get to know not just new friends, but Christian friends, who share a similar conviction. Interacting with new Christian brothers and sisters from other churches is definitely a blessing. We had the largest cohort of freshies ever for SMUCF camp (cheers to those from my group: Michelle, Yin Ling, Shawna, Xing Yan). Looking forward to future CF sessions and retreats during which we can meet-up more and get to know each other better!

• Saboteur

Saboteur is a highly interactive, very fun card game which was the craze of the camp (besides Moods, a board game which is also tremendous fun). Every night, after supper (a SMU tradition), most of us would gather in groups to play Saboteur (unofficially a SMUCF game, as 3 sets of the cards were brought to camp by the seniors!). Freshies and seniors, guys and gals all joined in the fun!

The premise of the game is simple: you are either a miner or a saboteur. As a miner, your aim is to create a route to the gold. As a saboteur, you have to stop the miners from reaching the gold by the time all the playing cards are exhausted. The twist is that you do not know the identities of the other players, which draws out the fun element of the game as players accuse, counter-accuse, block, un-block, and deceive each other throughout the game. Really fun if all players take an active role in the game and do not just sit back and remain quiet. After a while, even the girls were highly active, laughing hysterically (that’s you, Pearly!) and hurling wild accusations.

• Captain’s Ball and Ultimate Frisbee

We had games every afternoon, either Captain’s Ball or Ultimate Frisbee. These were great fun, but also rather tiring. Great to see that Captain’s Ball is not just a Kingdom Seekers Seniors tradition, but also a SMUCF tradition.

Captain’s Ball was definitely the more fun of the 2 games, especially on Tues afternoon, when we played in the SMU Sports Hall at the Admin Building (due to rain, hence, cannot play at Fort Canning). The games were intense and competitive, and we got to play with people outside of our camp groups, which allowed us to further interact.

Thank God for a truly wonderful camp, a great start to my SMU life, and the brothers and sisters-in-Christ I got to know through this camp. Will be meeting up with them once again during Afterglow, a post-camp meet-up (hopefully doesn’t clash with my other camps…). And of course, the weekly CF Bible Studies once term starts.

So, now I’ve a 1-week break before my next camp, the SMU FTB Camp, which happens 28-31 Jul (Mon-Wed) at Outward Bound School, East Coast Park. Looking forward to it and to more excitement and fun!

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