30 hours

5! 4! 3! 2! 1! BREAK FAST! This countdown is the most amazing countdown ive ever experience! be it chinese new year nor my birthday nor new year eve, nothing can compare with this ultimate countdown. ever! i still couldnt forget the feelings for the past 30 hours. How amazing is the Lord, we all, every one of us, survived 30 hrs with an empty stomach, and none of us feel sick nor have terrible feelings! Glory to the Lord.

Famine 30. was our precious hard work. Together with all the other committees, we spent endless nights planning the program, one activity after another, amending the tentative timetable to make it better and better, praying for people to supportively join this camp, and then leading the full 30 hours in anxiety and but yet with happiness.

Luke 4:4 Jesus answered, 'It is written: Man shall not live on bread alone.'

I held on to this verse for the past 30 hours. I can say the progress of preparing this camp are hard to come by, it is not easy. When we thought we couldnt make it to that 30 hours with hunger and running the program, when we need to deal with our academics and this event at the same time, when some of the campers felt scared and pull out, we almost got beaten! But the Lord showed us grace all along, guiding us step by step at a time. 

The Lord, our God led us as a team. He helped us to learn to be a leader in deciding things and a follower in listening to advices. He provided us with awesome weather during this raining season. He gave us enough participants and volunteers who are very supportive and very brave. It brings me to tears when i hear all of the sharings during the closing ceremony. The feeling of grateful and being so blessed is so real. He also gave us time and a lift in energy for exams. Not only that, He even created a group of prayer warriors to pray for us. Most importantly, He is with us, taught us the verse above and make sure we don feel uncomfortable during the whole camp. 

I know we have flaws too. Things arent perfect as it is at times. We do whined and feel exhausted. Maybe some of us might have a few times thoughts of giving up. But we all had that one purpose to achieve. We are the blessed one. We have the chance to know God, declare Jesus as our Saviour and enjoy His grace. But how about those who are poor? who are still struggling for a living, fighting hunger for a long long period and only had one small bread to sustain the day. How about those who have not known to God? We are here to acknowledge those people, to serve the nation, to make a difference to this world. Be it a little difference, we can do it if we asked God to send us. We are all the same, and none, no one! should feel the hunger this way.  I am sure they are bearing the sufferings more worse than what we had. Now i thank God i get to know a little bit of how those kids and people feel in those third country. Always remember, we eat to live and not live to eat. 

Ps. This is when we were preparing food to break the fast. The temptations is like so so huge! I couldnt forget how we wanted to lick all the spoons and plates that are used and have a bite even on those food that dropped on the floor! So much fun.