Loving God with My All
Testimonies from the Young People’s Fellowship Camp, 27-31 December 2010
I thank God for being able to attend this camp. This being the first time I am staying full-time. I have been blessed by theme messages on “Loving God with My All” by Pr Joshua Yong and “Making Godly Choices” by Dr Jeffrey Khoo. I have also been blessed by the modesty workshop and the various activities. I pray I will be able to know and love God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength, and love my neighbour. Jerald
Thank the Lord for giving me the time for a spiritual retreat. I have experienced several months of spiritual dryness and this camp has given me time to sort things through and experience spiritual refreshment. Serving in the camp committee has taught me much. When rendering a service unto God, we should always do it with a loving heart and to glorify God. The messages delivered to us were very practical to the youths for many of us unknowingly make worldly items our gods such as work, games and friends etc. The camp was spiritually enlightening and I pray that I will put what I have learned into practice. Jon Lam
Thank God for the messages on loving God with my all especially in this world filled with temptations. It is important to put God first in everything. I learnt that we should not do anything to please men but to do it with eternity in view and also not to show off to others. We should use our talents to glorify God. When we sing hymns, we should meditate on the hymns and not sing for the tune. We also learnt that loving our neighbours is a commandment, and we should not despise others and to love others even if they are mean to us. Joel Chan
I thank the Lord for this camp as it is my first, and all the messages especially the morning devotions as it is good to start the day afresh with the Lord’s Word. I especially like the door-to-door evangelism as I can go around to spread the gospel. All in all, I think that having this YPF camp helps me to grow spiritually and to know more about the Lord, and love Him with my all. Thaddeus Lau
Truly thank God for the opportunity to attend the camp to learn more about God’s Word. The messages were certainly a strong rebuke because I cannot claim to have loved God with all of my heart, soul, mind and strength. God’s love is so great for us. Yet I constantly disobey Him. Instead of plainly reading His Word like a textbook, indeed it is more important to do what He commands us to do, as written in Philippians 4:9, “These things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.” This is my earnest prayer to God. Zachary Kho
The whole camp has been a great blessing to me. I initially did not want to come for the camp because I was quite drained from the previous camp the last week. But I am glad I came. The theme messages really spoke to me and they were really a good time of reflection and rebuke. Loving God with my all has taken a new meaning to me. I learnt that it is not enough just to love God. Bro Joshua has said that we have to serve Him to express our love to Him. Thank God for this blessed time of fellowship and edification. Glory to God! Zach Quek
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” I thank God for this year’s YPF theme—loving God with my all. This theme causes me to reflect on what I have done for the past year, whether I have loved God with my whole heart and whether I have been a good testimony for Him all this while. I thank God that the messages were edifying as well as a blessing to me. I thank God also for the workshop on Christian dressing. Truly, I have learned many new things from it and I pray I will keep it with me always. All praise to God! Junji
I have really enjoyed camp, and I thank God for the warm Christian fellowship, the practical workshop and the messages. From the messages, I learnt more about how I should approach God, with reverence and fear. I realised for myself that I need to know more about who God really is. I have not taken God as seriously as I should because I did not know what God recorded for us in His Word. This was a serious reminder for me to study more of God’s Word. Remembering 2 Timothy 2:15 which reads, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” This verse convicted me that I really must spend more time closely studying God’s Word, especially as I still have loved ones outside God’s kingdom whom I feel it’s my duty to share the gospel with. Benedict
This camp has been a big blessing to me. Getting to listen to four messages everyday and discussing and fellowshipping with fellow Christians is a great privilege. This camp has taught that I can have a close relationship with God, but of course I must do my part, to do my daily Quiet Time and pray to God for every decision I make. It has refreshed me spiritually. I also thank God for all the preachers who faithfully preached God’s Word to us. Thanks be to God! Samuel Sim
I thank God for the opportunity to attend and serve in the YPF camp this year. I am especially thankful for the opportunity and privilege to serve at True Life BPC. I spent much time meditating on what it means and how I can love the Lord in my entire life. I thank God for the encouraging and open sharing during discussion time. I realise that there are challenges serving in a new church but it has taught me to pray more and let the Lord direct my steps. In matters outside of my ability to influence, I have learned even more to trust Him. I would like to spend more time with the Lord during my personal devotion and to study God’s Word properly again. Desmond
All praise and glory be to the Lord God who has so graciously blessed the YPF camp in so many ways. Praise God for His provision of faithful speakers that we might be instructed in His Word and be much edified and convicted. Even as Pr Joshua Yong expounded on the theme verse, Mark 12:30, I see how little I have loved the Lord, how little I really know God. It is such a well-known verse, yet I have never understood nor considered how deep this verse was. Oh, how important it is to dig into His Word daily, and to meditate upon His Word moment by moment. How important it is that after learning what the Word of God says, it must be internalised and applied in my life. May the Lord grant much grace. Andrew
I am grateful to God for this blessed opportunity to come to YPF camp. I would like to thank Him for this chance to learn more about His Word and walk closer to Him. The theme this year really touched me because I was not very close to God. Listening to the messages preached by Pr Joshua Yong and Rev Jeffrey Khoo really touched by heart and I hope I will be able to continue walking closer to the Lord and loving Him more and more each day. I would also like to thank God for giving me the chance to go to spread the gospel door to door. Lynn
I would like to thank God for giving me time to come to my first YPF camp. It was a great experience learning how I could really love God with my all and how to make godly choices. Also the morning devotions were enlightening, and I learned a lot through the messages. In this camp I thank the Lord for the fellowship that I had with the other members especially Lynn, Julia, Maggi, Natalia and Hannah. The dorm fellowship was also something that I never had and through that, I learned a lot. I thank God. Cae Rynn
I really thank God for this camp because it helped me to be closer to God and how to love Him. This camp was very special because in previous camps I did not bother to listen to the messages. During this camp, I was constantly asking God to help me to pay attention during the messages. I learnt many things like how to love God with our heart, soul, mind and strength. Natalia I thank God for the YPF camp. I have really learnt a lot. The dorm fellowships and morning devotions allowed us to have Christian fellowship with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. The messages were like a wake-up call for me as I think I have been backsliding from God. Able to be at this camp has been a great blessing for me. I hope to be able to join the camp next year in 2011. Hannah Chua
During this fruitful camp, I have truly taken away many valuable lessons but of them all the most valuable to me is that God’s greatness is unsearchable and that He is infinite. This serves also as a wake-up call for me that I must always be humble and seek God’s Word for truths I have yet to find out or comprehend. This will lead me to want to know God more and gain a deeper understanding of Him. I found the modesty workshop and evangelism session a very joyful one too, and it allowed me to examine myself at the same time. Kezia
It is always a blessing to be able to attend camp this year. I thank the Lord even more for allowing me to take leave from work to attend the camp. The Lord had convicted my heart of how I have not loved Him with my all, especially after starting work. It is just so easy to get caught up with the business of work that loving and serving God becomes a routine. Truly, as I study more about God and His Word, it only shows me even more my unworthiness to be His child. Therefore I pray that I would be able to start next year, remembering how much more I need to love God with my whole heart, soul, mind and strength. Candice
