Reflections from ITC2012
IGNITE training conference (aka Brisbane Leadership Training in previous years) for 2012 ended on Saturday. It’s a good idea to keep revising material that have been taught at camp especially at training conferences like these. You get constantly challenged everyday from the sermon talks, different workshops and from the strand material. I guess that’s why it’s a training conference and not a youth/uni camp 
I remember there was this one guy from one of the BC3 churches who went to IGNITE who was a father (married and he has kids), full time worker and a Christian. His age? 42. In Strand One. Don’t get me wrong, family time is important but he chose going to a training conference over getting a week of pay and to learn more about God’s Word, go to the workshops and to be an encouragement to the other people around him (and to him as well!!). If I didn’t say this before.. here it is. I’m super encouraged by people like this who make sacrifices to get trained for Jesus.
This really goes to show that ITC is aimed at anyone at church who wants to learn to be a leader. Maybe it’s time for me to start promoting BC3 at the ‘Married with kids’ generation or the aunties/uncles or even, the deacons who want to refresh their minds on some theologically sound teaching. If they could come… that would be cool.
Time for an interlude..
Did I mention that the Oh’s cooked up a feast this year at ITC2012?
Well. Here’s some pictures to tantalise your tastebuds. Images are from Pete Ko’s instagram.
Interlude’s over. Time for the serious stuff again.
One of the key things I found at Ignite was my lack of quiet time. Or rather, how I spend my quiet time. Pastor Pete Ko shared his way of quiet time using the R.E.A.P. method of reading the Bible in his quiet times. He reads about 4 chapters of the Bible a day and keeps a record using Evernote. I have to agree, it’s a smart way to keep track of your Bible reading anywhere with internet access.
Read one verse – (or pick out one specific/interesting passage) What stood out to me?
Explain one sentence: What does it mean? / Why?
Apply
Prayer
He admits that workers don’t necessarily have that much time to spend on quiet time but 15 minutes is sufficient for this method every day. If you’re a worker and not using any method for quiet time, here’s one to help you out. I’m going to give this a try as well.
I feel like I could keep sharing for ages. This is just about 3-4 things from camp. There’s a lot more that happened. Be sure to ask someone what happened and what they learned from their experience by going to ITC2012 this year.
Soli deo gloria,
Chris
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