GYC

GENERATIONS YOUTH CAMP
Psalms 46:10
let go let God

I didn't really expect to win, to be picked on, to just go through the day with nothing to bring home. I wanted to bring home a righteous, cleansed, new me. Just me. I wanted to learn so much about Him. I needed to know that I'm safe with Him everywhere I go. I needed comfort and security. First day of camp, I was looking forward to acutally meeting everyone. I remember on the way, we found Kuya Les and Kuya Jon on the road. So we all chilled in different places. I went with the Piano fam, Kristine, Stacey, MaryAnn, and Ashley to McDonald's. Thought I'd get to know them a bit more since everyone dispersed in different areas. I was suprised I even went with them, when we barely talk. Oh how I hated drinking sweet tea on the way to camp, had to take so many restroom breaks. Well, sitting with the Piano family, behind us was Leslie, Novie and Cjay. Never really got to know them, but I was in the same team with Novie last year. It was nice chitchatting with them, so we headed over back to the car and we were on the road again to Heavenly Hills Christian camp. Camp for the first day was interesting. It was nice knowing that there were some familiar faces in our team. Kristine, Josh, Leslie, Ashley, Joshua, AshleyMora, Crishel, Ivy, Ateh Rio, Kuya PJ, Hazel, Henry & Mark, unfortunately Mark couldn't make it. It was a bit quiet between us during group devo, but the get-to-know-each-other methods that Kuya PJ gave us actually helped us. I remember, my first group was Joshua and Crishel, I remember meeting Joshua from Tsunami & how he would look over my shoulder peeking through my drawings haha. But you know, we all became comfortable around each other. Of course, we never left anyone out, in some of the conversations, the laughter, the fun times. Especially for Mark. Everything was going swell, but we were in desperate need of a name for our team. We kept thinking of something that's yellow, a banana peel, a sun, a thunder. Thunder souned so powerful and strong, but what was something we could fit next to it to correlate with the theme of camp? Birds, bolt, shock, STRIKE. How empowering. STRIKE, we strike the sins out of us with thunder. That ended up being our cheer for the cheer presentation on the second second day of camp. Step was our main thing. It was fun creating that Spokenword/skit/step talent show. We all can't wait till the videos come out. Although the skit wasn't as great, and the cheer wasn't as great, we were very consistent. Consistency is key, & that's how we won this year for GYC 09. Even though we weren't as great in some things, at least there were other things that balanced the other things out. The Bible Drill helped us a lot. Our team had about 6 or 7 people win their rounds, which was categorized by age. Our sign was great, our flag was great, we were all great. And not only did we grow through leadership, participation, and with other, we grew individually. And together all that spiritual power grew together all at once with one another. I enjoyed GYC this year, the people, the food, the personal/group devo's, morning/night worships, pastor's messages, etc. Pastor soy's message made people attentive. Comparing us to raccoons, how shiny things attract raccoons, and how things we cherish the most attracts us. Kuya JayJay's message about strength and courage, knowing that we must be able to meditate on God's word day and night. including his powerful testimony and sets of examples he offered. Pastor Rex's message, about the fruit of the spirit and what fills us through love and how there are things that comprise of what makes us a christian, what makes us who we are, and what kinds of things we go through. He explained a summary of some part of the Bible through rap and although I wasn't feelin the beat, and flow of speech, his message was the most important thing to pay our time for. And last but not least, Kuya Bryan's reviews of each message from each day, and encouraging words during the altar call. Even though we were all tired, and exhausted, we did our best to serve the Lord. We all took pictures, and everything, then headed to the restaurant. Man were we loud. But hey, it was our last day. So goodbye, Delano, Berryessa, Pittsburgh, Stockton. May God be with you and Bless you.
OH Pittsburgh, see you next Tuesday & Josh, happy Birthday on Sunday! Keep that trophy clean!

I'm going to write my testimony later.