Pastor Kid's Retreat 2007

this post is gonna be very long, with lots of pictures!!!

there's this MInister's Retreat every 2 years organize by AOG [ Assemblies Of God ] and this year we have Pastor kid's Retreat as well, going on at the same time/venue

28th - 31st May 2007, Awana Genting Highlands

at first i never thought of going... but when i saw the responds/replies in Pks YahooGroup,i decided to go...

after missing 2 times with is 4 years without catching up with the youths/PKs, i thought i would be lost there, and now i'm glad that i went there!!

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1st Day

tumpang Lemuel's car there and the four of us, Lemuel, Melanie, Joash and me reached there around 3pm

i feel really funny having roommates who bring PS2 and computer... joash(computer) and michael (PS2) to the camp haha..

anyway i rested, then soon its dinner time... and then, we took our dinner...

youth session started, and Joash is in charge of the icebreaking session

and so we had a short game... and i'm the 1st catcher... sweat.. like what joash said in his blog, some people were bored, but overall it was nicely done

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and we have our 1st worship session of the camp..

the guys from YouthAlive west Aus was with us the 1st and 2nd youth session

being a PK himself, Matt from YA west Aus shared his life experience with us and it was a wonderful message..

the night ended with Lemuel, Joash, Michael and Me playing winning eleven on Joash's computer...

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2nd Day

On the 2nd day, the morning session, a few people from YA west Aus shared their life experience and later on we celebrated Pastor Becky's birthday as well =)

and before the peeps leave the camp, we took some photos with them..

YouthAlive Msia vs YouthAlive West Aus


the group photo!!

In the afternoon, we had our 1st soccer session and although i was in the lost side, it was fun playing...

the youth session at night started with another short game... which i'm not involve in hahahaha...

the speaker for the 2nd night is Pastor Sally sharing about the story of Daniel with his friend in the Fiery Trial, well its about faith..

phoebe mathius with the worship team for the next morning
*she have such a good voice!!

and well the 2nd night ended with Winning Eleven as well... lolz

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3rd Day

i shall start the 3rd day with this 2 cute pictures

arent they cute??

hahaha


Pastor Clement is the speaker for the morning session

as usual, he is always funny when he is preaching with his jokes.. his message title was whose father footsteps.. following our Heavenly father footsteps, Jesus, or our father on earth, our dad, Fellow Pastors...

we had soccer in the afternoon as well... this time we have it Pastor's kids versus Pastors.. lolz.. like the previous day the match went into penalty kickout... eventually i was in the losing team again... we have 2 extra people joining us in the afternoon who is levi and jefferey...

in the night we PKs have extended time for dinner... that means longer time to fellowship around... isaac and aletheia finally joined us in the dinner session...

and i shall leave the rest of the dinner session to the photos

our youth session started at 9pm, which is one hour later than previous nights...

we have another short game again, with a few small groups, everybody gets to know their group member's name....

and then we have our worship session then straight into altar call where every PKs was prayed by the pastors around... it was quite a powerful prayer i could say..

and then we formed a big circle where some of us came out and make declarations on behalf of our families

the whole thing was awesome!!

took some photos with some people after everything ended

the next thing we did was ending up in a mamak stall in GotongJaya

well i would say its quite messy, where everybody is all around the mamak stall... and the food really sucks there haha with excessive pepper in it... but anyway i enjoyed my time...

later on that night, because it was the last night.. most of us didnt sleep...

in my room itself, there's this 2 girls michel and andrea watchin heroes.. michael and phinenas talking about soccer, joash/lemuel/levi and michael playing winning eleven...

and so i went downstairs.. and i found out this

a bunch of crazy PKs playing pictionary outside of the main hall!!! and because they made too much noise, the guards forced them to change the venue to here...

the main entrance of Awana Hotel, Genting Highlands

they finished playing at around 6am... both the winning eleven and pictionary peeps... lolz!!!

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4th Day - Last Day

slept for like 1 hour plus... Zzzz

and as usual, on the last day, the youths will join the main session with the pastors

soon enough its the end of the whole retreat, a wonderful retreat... where many was blessed

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seeing the newer batch of PKs joining in the youth session makes me excited, with them praising and worshipping, i somehow felt touched with what God did in us all... being a Pastor's kid may be hard sometimes, but we have each other shoulders to lean on... people might not understand what have we gone through being a Pastor's Kid, but we as a big group of family will understand...

afterall, we have our Almighty God looking after us!!

came back with these 2 changed nametags....

till the next PKs Retreat... take care peeps!! =)

God Bless

*thanks Michel for the pictures...