Youth Camp (1): Speeches, Discussions, Games

The annual December youth camp was held from December 14-17 in the same location as last year, a chalet in eastern Singapore.  We had a good turnout from our own youth, as well as two girls from the U.S. who came for the camp, Grace Huizenga and Jillian DeBoer.

The back of the house, which overlooked this...

The camp theme was "Ask for the Old Paths."  Speeches were on our doctrine, our worship, our church government, and our personal lives.  The youth were divided into discussion groups, which met after each speech to discuss questions related to the speech.

Singing before a speech

Speech

One of the discussion groups

Another group

And another

Ready for another speech

Morning devotions

There were also many games throughout the week!

One of the teams

Water balloon game

And finally, here is this year's group photo.  Lord willing, the next blog will be on the outing and the dinner for the congregation at the end of the camp.

Christmas Eve

Tonight we enjoyed a Christmas Eve dinner with Kong Wee & Dorcas's family and Curtis & Esther's family.

The whole group with our delicious meal, mostly cooked by Curtis

Gabriella enjoying her food

Jael and Megan by Dorcas's cake

My husband with Roman

The guys talking after dinner

We don't have a white Christmas...just huge thunderstorms, and then time to swim when the storm moves on. :-)

Eric

Our family also wishes you all a blessed Christmas and new year!  Thank you all for your support and prayers throughout the past years!

Vacation Bible School

The annual Vacation Bible School was held from December 6-8.  This year, the entire event, except for the outing, was held at church.  (Thanks to Nichelle and Ivan & Elisa for many of these photos.)

The theme of this year's VBS was "Elisha's God is Our God."

Jean teaching some of the kids

Ah Moi teaching another class's lesson

The youngest kids putting words of a Bible verse in order

Elijah with some of the things his class learned

Always popular are the games.  Yes, you will notice that even wet games were held inside this year!

Also popular this year was the oldest kid at VBS, our son Eric--and his soft blond hair, which everyone had to feel. :-)

The outing on the last day of VBS was to the Science Center, where Elisa had prepared special activities for the kids, related to God's creation.

Putting together a puzzle

Filling in a worksheet with what they had learned about the creation

The kids lined up before lunch

The Science Center also has a butterfly exhibit right now, which we went through after lunch.

Some tried to hold butterflies directly on their hands, 

others on big paper butterflies--and some not at all! :-)

Shang Yi

My husband with Jonam

Jael and Jason

There were crafts connected with the butterfly exhibit too.

It was a good week of friendship and learning about God's Word together.

All the VBS kids

Charis and Emily

Given and Eric

Elijah and Megan

Pile of boys :-)