Looking Back and Looking Forward

by Ireney See

     January’s youth fellowship was an amazing experience even though not many people were able to attend. The youth fellowship helped us have fun before getting to the serious part. We met a lot of new people and played games that got us all hyped up and not to mention, dizzy. After playing a few games we split up into two groups and went to our respective rooms for the main activity.

     Now, here comes the serious part. It was sort of a continuation of January 2011’s youth fellowship wherein each of us wrote down on a piece of yellow paper what we would like to change that year—sort of like a new year’s resolution. We found out that the church had kept all those yellow papers. They gave them back to us and we discussed about last year’s resolution. We talked about whether or not we achieved our goals of changing the things we wanted to change. We didn't expect that we would share a lot about our past and our personal lives, at least, that’s what happened in the room I was in. It was real fellowship and it was amazing. One thing I know is that what happened in those rooms was enough to make us realize some things. We were able to evaluate what we did in the past, if we achieved our goals to change what we ought to, and decide on what we want to do this year.

     Scattered all over the table, we were presented with pictures of various scenes and people. After those very emotional evaluations, each one of us had to pick a picture that would best represent our new year’s resolution for 2012 and write on it our actual resolutions. I’m assuming that next January we’ll do the same and look back and evaluate on our new year’s resolution for this year. I’ll be looking forward to the year ahead. It was a great youth fellowship. To sum it all up, January 2012’s youth fellowship was not only a fun fellowship but also a meaningful one. It was a fun, laugh trip, sort of tearjerker-emotional type fellowship that makes you realize things. It was downright awesome.