Vincent: Scampen 2008

Yea yea, I'm back. Crossed 2008 to 2009 with people from my church and other churches =)

So yea. Let's draw a good 1st post in 2009:

On the 28th, I packed my stuffs, and went for Scampen 2008 organized by my church. Long story, I missed the train due to my "slow-slow-ness" and caused other 4 people to depart late with me, since we're using a Wonderful-Weekend-Ticket (SchöneWochenede Ticket). I think that was my last time of the year doing mistake. And I thought I was going to swallow the €37 all by myself. But luckily they found another schedule that was not too long away from the original one. Sorry and thank you.

So the 4 hours train ride was such a tiring journey. Nevertheless, I was very excited, because it was my first time crossing into Bavaria state. During the train our mentor gave us a "review and outlook" questions, can say "homework" during our stay at Scampen.

So we reached, got our stuffs unpacked and had our dinner. After that we had a small ice-breaking game hosted by Daniel Tang. It was a variation of the animal-acting game that we played in Campus Alive last time. After that it was worship session. That night was my first time doing Praise and Worship for my church with microphones. Was kind of nervous, since I never did anything so big like this before, although I was only a support-guitarist. Although I played some chords wrong and was kind of panic, but the first time was quite a nice memory and praise God for giving me this chance. And yes, worship is not about music, but the heart for God.

And we had our first preach by Pastor Markus Rose. Learned about the Trinity of God and their significants, especially about the Holy Spirit.

Day two, woke up and had breakfast. Then we went for skiing. I did not play, but merely to take photographs. ~~Ok, cause I scare to fall down. NOT~~ . I was simply not in the mood, although seeing the big white snow all across the mountain. So some pictures here...

The view of the town at the bottom of the mountain. This picture was not edited. It looked super nice can!

Sepia.

This one was taken at the peak of the mountain, 2224m above sea level. Looking at the skiiers, they're more like ants. Saw Daniel? I didn't. LoL.

These daring professionals just skiied down from the mountain. There're not even a course, rather a black flag indicating extreme dangerous zone.

I learned the theory of snowboarding from Pastor Steffen. At around 3.30pm I went myself to the peak of the mountain, cause the rest seemed to be more interested in skiing rather sight-seeing. But it was worth a look at the top of the mountain =)

A bench at the peak.

From the top...

Dena, no need you to say, I like this picture too =P

Took quite some pictures, but lazy to edit them. Then I took the 4pm cable car to go down.

While waiting for cable car, the sunset view was a nice view also no?

I reached at the foot of the mountain at 4.30pm. Yea, 2 cable car transits. Oh yea, at 4pm there were Ski Jumping competition there. I was informed by a German who took the cable car went up before that.

Credits to the respective owner.

This wasn't the picture that I took, but you can get the idea from this picture: It's like the jumper slide down a track, at the end of the track he flew up in the sky, and the winner is judged by the landing at the distance traveled. Cool!! Watching it live inside a cable car. Haha.

So then went back for dinner and had a sermon by Pastor Prakich, a Thai who is now in charge of Hope London. He shared with us about moving in the Spirit in the Congregation. After that we went for bed.

Day 3, woke up at 6.30am and did the homework with Jia Jin. It was a very honest discussion and review with Daniel and Jia Jin. Learned a lot about what they see in me. After having breakfast we took rest while the others went for other activities. Then around 2pm Daniel and I walked to the town for some junk food. It was quite nice, not just the scenery, but I was able to have a nice and honest chat with him ^^

So we came back around 4.30pm and got some rest, and dinner on 6pm. After that we had another sermon by Pastor Prakich again, this time about the obstacles to moving in the Spirit. We were opened to the obstacles in spiritual life that hinders us from moving together with the Holy Spirit. Then we had a prayer session and I was given a word of encouragement by CK from Hope Rome. It was actually a verse given by Jia Jin some time ago:

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
1. Timothy 4:12 NIV

Day 4, Silvestre. We had our homework session with our mentor, a continueal from the previous session. Then we had breakfast and a talk by Pastor Markus Rose again. We talked about church as our training ground for the outside world. After that we had a small workshop on God's calling. Had fun in changing the lyrics of common song while keeping the melody.

Then since we had nothing to do, we found some people to play monopoly together. It lasted 3 hours and there were deadly streets and ended thanks to Jia Jin the businessman-to-be with his good dealing skills. Haha. Monopoly 伤感情. LoL.

We had great time after dinner in doing review of the year 2008 and the outlook in 2009 together, as well as the focus of our church in 2009. We had Daniel Kopp playing side-flute with Sonata in F minor, if I remember the title correctly.