Stories from Singapore: Church Camp (1)

This year's annual church camp was held from June 16-19 in Batam, an island of Indonesia--the first time in 20 years that the camp has been in Indonesia instead of Malaysia. We gathered at the ferry terminal in Singapore and took the ferry about 45 minutes to Batam.

On the ferry

On the bus from the ferry terminal to the hotel

The other two buses of church people in front of the ferry terminal

Here are a few sights of Indonesia:

View from the rooftop of our hotel

I think Jason (our 3-year-old) commented on this

sign every time he was in the bathroom. :-)

No 4th floor--a Chinese superstition, because the

Chinese word for "four" sounds like the word for "die."

A small sample of the breakfast foods available

The theme of this year's camp was "Are You Ready to Meet Christ?" The speaker was Prof. Gritters. He chose as the camp text II Timothy 4:6-8 and had us work on memorizing that throughout the week. The basis of his speeches was the final phrase of that text: "all...that love his appearing." He gave five excellent speeches, which can be heard here: https://sites.google.com/site/cercaudiobackup/home/church-camp/2015.

Discussion groups followed four of the five speeches, and during those times there were also classes and crafts for the children.

Daisy teaching the older kids

Matthias with the older kids during another session

Ah Moi and Dorcas with the young ones

On the last night of the camp there was a workshop led by my husband. He gave a concluding speech for the camp, using Revelation 22 and the prayer of God's people, "Come, Lord Jesus." After his speech he had us get into our discussion groups and write out II Timothy 4:6-8, then choose among ourselves one highlight of all of Prof. Gritters' speeches and present that to another group.