Information 5

For any other people who are interested in what we have tried to do for this event. This Games day is based on The Game. Click on the link, and you will see that it is basically a high level puzzle solving game. For a first time effort from all of you, kudos on a extremely fine effort.

There are 3 factors that elevated the event today even above the usual The Game format.
1. It is a coorperative game. Clues taken along different routes are interlinked so that all groups are dependent on one another to solve the entire 60 location puzzle. This is only possible because of the participation from many presbyterian churches.
2. Though later versions of The Game has become increasingly IT based, being one of the latest version means that we get to hide even more clues in the cyberspace. So blogs, web comics, photo albums, networking sites, MSN etc were utilised.
3. This event was done in love. Sacrifices from both organizers and participants were made because we believe in giving so that all may receive. And like all acts of love, I hope the good will can continue to multiply in the future of our Presbyterian unity.

hi? lol. jun kai frm OB-I here. *im the 1 wearing black and with a black cap on* =)

just wanna voice comments on the overall organisation of this event.
i think the event, to me, was quite bad. i think insufficient information was given to the participating church(es).

1. wasn't told to bring bible or anything, and there was no thorough and clear briefing given. clue was given when the whole grp still didnt noe What in the World is going on, and how the game is Exactly carried out.

2. at KCP hall, in-charge did not command attention, which is smth tat is quite annoying, since every1's mumbling and in-charge is not speaking clearly also. e.g all of a sudden some guy comes up and says "I declare the race open." like HUH?? what??? i dun see any structure, and it just feels very disorganised to me.

3. Ending destination is Jubilee Church, and we were told to solve the clues for *i dunno what end destination or smth* and ended up nobody did anything. no1 knew wad was going on. what clues? what code word thing? and all of a sudden, "Now we will present the prizes to the winning team." LIKE HUH??? and NOT ALL grps are back yet. even after the photo taking (yes, i was the 1 who shouted back "byebye") and every1 was leaving, there was still a grp which cabbed in to jubilee church. like how *!?!?!?!* is that???

anyways i noe this is a OneBody blog, but yea, i just had to voice all these out, cos im totally not happy with the event, sometimes event when things dun go well, ppl leave with a sense of satisfaction.. but this event was a failure to me, it made me feel UPSET, and worst of all, i feel like de event was completed half-heartedly, didnt gimme a sense of satisfaction AT ALL.

however, kudos to the in-charge for making such bloody difficult clues, much effort has been put in, but i think due to this mebe u've neglected the main part of the events? oh. and i rmb the in-charge, siow hwee was it?he said smth abt this event being "bonding for presbytarian churches" etc etc? i TOTALLY DID NOT see anything that helped us to bond. there was no activities to bond the team members.
this event's called Amazing Race rite, or so i heard. and i thought there'd be activities (probably team bonding) at every station to be completed b4 getting a clue to the next destination, but what happened just now was only "take clue, 1/3 of the team solve the clue as the others are not interested, solve clue, move to next station, cycle repeats".. seriously.. if u ask me, i'd have said the same thing even if OneBody won.. and personally, this leaves a pretty bad impression on me, and i wld really think Thrice on joining another event held by the Synod (i've heard bad stuffs abt the youth camp as well)..

just my $0.02.. cheers on those who gave their efforts.. THE CLUES WERE FREAKING HARD. zzz

Information 4

All the codewords are in sequence and form a solution to the final destination. I will award a bonus voucher to the first winning individual or group that solves it. Good luck!

Information 3

One faith won One spirit and One body by only 2 clues. So it was a close fight, good work everybody!

Can all group leaders invite everybody in your team into this blog and we can continue the fellowship long after this Games?

Lastly, take a look at the other blogs One spirit and One faith.

Thank You

Let us all thank our Father in Heaven, for HE is love. I'm truly grateful for having such a wonderful experience despite the heavy downpour, aching feet, a million dead braincells, for I have gained in more ways than one and felt the love HE has placed in my life. By the greatness of HIS love, we have been blessed with amazing fellowship. HE has brought us all together today in this challenge to come together in celebration of our sister and brotherhood in Christ, that we may lean on his word and empower each other in fellowship. To HIM be the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

And before I close, like Wilson, I'd like to thank all the fabulous GLs of onebody.
Amos, Ben, Hannah, Serene, Wilson, David, Desiree, Derek, Wenyao. Though our bonding time was short, each one of you is special to me for GOD placed you there with specific purpose. I sincerely thank all of you for the efforts that you've all put in and for the amazing fellowship you have provided. I propose that we come together in a time of thanksgiving and find time to sit down to dinner without having any technical worries.

And of course my lovely "team I" consisting of Sam, Tim, Mingshen, Jun Kai, Raymond, Guangqin. Thanks for sticking thru it all with this blur sotong. It has been my pleasure and honor to have you as my group members. May our fellowship last beyond the games.

With love from your sister in Christ,
Rachel

Great job!

hope all of you had fun! do try to post what your group did during the race in the posts so we could all read and share the fun with you!

thanks to rachel for all the coordination, especially for arranging the breakfast fellowship for team leaders! thanks to all of you who tried in one way or another for making this a super duper fun and exciting race for all of us!

we ain't no body, cause we'll onebody!

hope to see you guys soon! God bless! :D

IMPORTANT

Guys, i'm sure many of us are happily eating macs now... all the team posts are created! try to use the posts created so that we don't have so many other posts!

here's my suggestions: once each team reached a location, login immediately to offer help or seek help. update the blog immediately and then check out each grp's post to see if they need any help.

HAVE FUN AND POST A PICTURE! see you guys soon! back to my macs... :D

Team A

Current Location:at macs in ps figuring out 2nd clue

Previous Location:

Help Needed ASAP:

• who knows the msn email of the gamemaster? ASAP.
• Ans: amos, did your game master contact you? each route has their own game master... so we cant really help on this. i'll try to ask my game master for your game master's contact number
• game master for A: michelle quak @ 82687953
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CLUES (in order as they are given):

• Clue A2(code word: First)
• Clue A3 (codeword: Rustled)
• Clue A4 (codeword: colouring)
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Here's how we solve our clues:

• Poem of 8 lines.First two lines dont mean anything.Next two lines describe one word. Same for the next 4 lines. So in the end its a 3 syllable place- Synod House
• A pyramid of letters. Two groups of people on left hand side and right hand side of pyramid. Both sides fought each other in the past. Start from top of pyramid, always move down and towards the victorious group's side. - Social Hall Covenant
• We were given a long list of names.Each name was missing one letter.By chaining together all the missing letters, we managed to find the location of our next clue, which is Dempsey tree opposite Korean BBQ.
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Experiences:

• Eating at Macs
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• Burger King at Wheelock Place for wireless internet
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Team B

Current Location:

Previous Locations: -

HELP NEEDED ASAP:

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CLUES (in order as they are given):

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Here's how we solve our clues:

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Experiences:

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Team C

Current Location: macs west coast

Previous Locations: - the daily scoop, sunset way

HELP NEEDED ASAP:

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• 3we are given a group of images, the clue is mirror and code name superior (solved)
  
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CLUES (in order as they are given):

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Here's how we solve our clues:

• 1 we placed the transparency over the handout
  
• 2 at the bottem of the conatiner
  
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Experiences:

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Team D

Current Location:

Previous Locations: -

HELP NEEDED ASAP:

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CLUES (in order as they are given):

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Here's how we solve our clues:

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Experiences:

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Team E

Current Location:

Previous Locations: -

HELP NEEDED ASAP:

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CLUES (in order as they are given):

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The tallest of the last of the first (t) of the plus (p) of the roundest (t) of the closest duo (o) of the downward (w) of the sunken (n) of the plentiful (p) of the capital (a) of the right (r) of the week (k)
i.e. toa payoh town park

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no clue (codeword:greatest)

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wan qing yuan (codeword:tourism)

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random alphabets on this sheet of blank paper, and a list of times. supposed to use sheet of paper as a clock, with a small dot in the centre as, well, the centre of the clock. Using only the alphabets that the minute hand fell on/pointed to. supposed to lead to living praise presbyterian church. (no codeword given)

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Here's how we solve our clues:

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Experiences:

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Played Charades, 5-6 rounds. Words I can remember: buffet, enlist, cock, leave, pant, dance
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5 Stations. Hold Hands and climb up a "spider web" in Bishan Park playground. Link arms, face outward of this round bench-cum-garden? thing, and run round it once. Walk on the foot reflexoloy path, both ways. Hop across a bridge on one foot. Take a storll, see the trees. o.O
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Grabbed some food, tried to get on wireless and failed, and took bus to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. Found clue in box. We spent like 20 mins trying to decipher the thing, but had to call game control for hints... which led us nowhere, so we asked for the answer-LPPC
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Team F

Current Location:

Previous Locations: -

HELP NEEDED ASAP:

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CLUES (in order as they are given):

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Here's how we solve our clues:

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Experiences:

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Team G

TEAM G

pei en, xiao feng, anita, samuel

wilson (the one holding the camera!)

Current Location: Jubilee Church... LOL

Previous Locations: White Sands (Pasir Ris), Pasir Ris Park Gallop Stable (bus-ed past), Pasir Ris Park Playground, Tampines Mall, Century Square (just to find power plug), ITE College East (thought of going)...

HELP NEEDED ASAP:

• tell me the nearest power point please... :S


• i need a power point real soon! laptop is hibernating soon.... HELP!


• power power power!!! no more fuel for laptop!


• laptop down... still looking for power point... TEAM G SHUT-DOWN!

CLUES (in order as they are given):

• G1 - shopping centre, names of movie directors / actors, oscar! oscar! oscar! call 270, extension 2092, look for CHU
  
• G2 - look at random table and try to decipher the sounds of the words there. go to next location
  
• G3 - some random playground (well, supposely the biggest one in Singapore)
  
• G4 - cross out letters of the alphabet that appear in first letter of logo names. use the remaining letters to access a website
  
• G5 - from that random comic and the utterly random website, find the location of a shop
  
• G6 - from another random website whose names as some sort of vague corelation to the shop we just round

Here's how we solve our clues:

• all the actors / directors involved in the movie jams. jaws in chinese = 白沙鱼. so 白沙 = white sands shopping centre... 270.2092 is the reference number of the book in library by author chu. HAHA!
  
• the letters were all jumbled up and we had to de-code it! ok.. honestly, we called our game control to ask for help! so it's some gallop stable thing... and it starts pouring as we leave white sands!
  
• the biggest playground is in pasir ris park!
  
• this one is really tough! we surfed the net thinking we would find something like that. finally found the website www.xkcd.com (clue from synod youth blog). go to 388 to take a look. hushpuppies and g2000 are the answers! (:
  
• www.flickr.com/hushpuppiesg2000

Experiences:

• eating mac and enjoying the juicy burgers. free power supply from mac! very full and satisfied... :D
  
• we left white sands and it started pouring! thank God the rained stopped when we reach the playground. else, we would have been like 落汤鸡!

• wilson tried to look for the information counter (customer service) to locate the shops we want. he missed the information counter by miles... it was so obvious and they made the words so big! LOL



• we were leading when we left the playground. somehow the solving of the clues took us a super long time... actually we should have asked the game master for help earlier! and the laptop went off to rest as it had no POWER left... -.-'''
  
• finally reached jubilee back in one piece... tired but happy and enjoyed the whole race totally!

this sums up the day: wet but HAPPY! :D

Team H

Current Location: Jubilee Presbyterian Church

Previous Locations: Werner's Oven, Parkway Parade, Katong Pres(Stuck till 5p.m.)

HELP NEEDED ASAP:

• 1 NAVAL PERSONNEL NEEDED
  
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CLUES (in order as they are given):

• 1 Elastic
  
• 2 Tentative
  
• 3 Liberate
  
• 4 Formation
• 5 Hamster
• 6 Produce
  

Here's how we solve our clues:

• 1 Called the game master, answer was given to us. Werner's Oven
  
• 2 Coiled strip around lamp post to decipher. Parkway Parade, Giant, Cabinet No.13
  
• 3 Game master called, told ask to go to Katong Presbyterian Church.
  
• 4 Forgot the cluesheet
  
• 5 Forgot the cluesheet
  
• 6 Forgot the cluesheet
  

Experiences:

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Team I

Current Location: Kallang Macs

Previous Locations: Chen Li Pres, Kallang Leisure park, city plaza

HELP NEEDED ASAP:

• How to get to Chen Li Presbyterian Church?
• Ans: Take a train to Aljunied MRT, take bus 158 at bus stop (81089), stop at 5th stop outside Handicapped Vocational School. abt 200m away
• 2 SOS watch link and figure out words acted in charades. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s9TPxFpduQ
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CLUES (in order as they are given):

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Here's how we solve our clues:

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Experiences:

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Team J

Current Location:
Heading to Jurong Lake now.
Previous Locations:
- Kinetic Garden, Science Centre.
- BBPC
- BB War Memorial inside BB Nature Park. Can take bus 157 from Toa Payoh or from the bus stop across the road from BB MRT station.




HELP NEEDED ASAP:

• Where is Jurong Lake? Chinese Garden Station or Lakeside Station?


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CLUES (in order as they are given):

• Clue J1 and J2 (code word: Period)


• Clue J3 (Stamp)


• Clue J4 (Aerialist)


• Clue J5 (Aquarian)


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Here's how we solve our clues:

• Read backwards and rearrange letters (4 characters by 4 characters). Actually there's no set way of solving, we're just playing by ear.
E.g. "Specifically the first location you have to find..." Find the words that were replaced (there are differences between the text on the memorial and the text on your paper), and the first letter of the words will tell you to go to BBPC.

• String all the military alphabet together try to make sense of it??
Kilo, India, November, Echoes/echo, Tango, india, charlie, golf, alpha, romeo, delta, echoes, november, papa, echoed, echo, papa.Kinetic garden, Science Centre!

• Put the paper behind the red filter in the Kinetic Garden. Dark dots should be more obvious. Go online and learn how to read braille. Then can read the message.
"Make your way down to Fuji Ice Palace."

• Flintstone's favourite game is bowling. The bowling pins are numbered 1 to 10 starting from the single pin in front, from left to right. So the numbers given help you trace out letters that form the words "Jurong Lake".


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Experiences:

• Eating at Macs! =D


• Climbed a lot at BB Nature Park. =S


• We learnt how to read Braille =D


• ???


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Information 2

Know your coverage areas! Fast food outlets is a sure win place, with online access and power supply.

http://www.infocomm123.sg/wireless_at_sg/coverage_areas

While we are on the topic of blogs, visit the Synod Youth Blog. You might find hidden information there.

Information 1

Hi people, in case you haven't figured it out, all of you are in the same team. This is Team One Body. As a team of 80-100 members, you are subdivided into 10 groups to go on 10 different trails. This is the official blog for you to communicate with one another. You are FORBIDDEN to peek/read/google at the official blogs of the other two teams One Faith and One Spirit.

What do you do:
1. Upon receiving clue, blog inside here all important information.
2. Upon solving clue, blog inside here how you solved your clue.
3. Upon reaching the next location, blog inside here your experiences there.

Therefore:
1. You are dependent on the information provided here you help solve your clues. The information you provide here will help other fellow groups in your team to solve their clues. It is a cooperative game.
2. In your free time, if there is any, mark the progress of other groups in your team, and help them solve their clues if you can, if they cannot progress fast enough, they might hamper your own progress.
3. Answer questions here that other teams might need with regards to information that might help them in their clue solving. This means you should always read up comments on your entries.

Hence:
1. Proper labeling and titles is very important. Entries by your group should be group A or B, etc. Locations should be stated clearly in the title, e.g. B3 or J5 or H1 depending on which stage of the game your group is currently at.
2. Make sure your entire group participate. Every clue should be a 80-100 players solving exercise, not just a single group effort. With such a big group, no trivia is impossible.
3. Have Fun!!!

update on breakfast meeting.

It's me again, blogging from the road this time.

Update:
Breakfast meeting
Meeting point: outside J8 Giordano
Time: Just before 9am preferably or 9am.

Confirmed attendees:
Amos
Ben
Derek
Desiree
Hannah
Serene
Wilson
Myself

To bring list:
Cash
Ezlink
Umbrella
Laptop(unless prev arranged w church to provide)

Wenyao and David(replacing Justin) will join us at their convenience.
Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow morning!

With love from your sister in Christ,
Rachel

The Legendary Synod Youth Council

The ten met for the last time in the sanctuary of their headquarters, a sanctuary that was fast disintegrating.

“We have no more time. We cannot afford to stay here any longer. We have to leave now.” One among them spoke.

The ten looked at each other, their secret utmost in their minds.

“We will protect it at all costs, whatever the price. This is our legacy.”

He spoke fast. “We will use our talents. One each. We will create a trail, one that will enable those that come after us to uncover the secret. This way, we will never be lost. I believe that one day, someone will follow our trails, piece together the puzzle and uncover the truth. Then we shall be able to return.”

The ten agreed.

Ten Men. One heritage.

Ten talents. One legacy.

Talents. Gifts. Only one each but abundant as a group. Quickly, each used their talents to create a trail that when pieced together, would lead to the ultimate discovery.

History

Theology

Food

Art

Health

Science

Photography

Music

Bible

Literature

Ten as diverse as can be. Yet each cannot stand alone. Only the unity of ten would bring about the truth, as it has been, as it should be.

With that, they came together for the last time and put their hands together. Eyes closed, they felt each other’s faith, each other’s passion, each other’s hope.

One last grip of hands. One last nod at each other.

They separated. One in each direction. Ten shadows radiated outwards from a common center, all moving too fast for anything more than a glance at them. The sanctuary collapsed. They continued moving away, away from each other, away from their land, away from their legacy. However, they believed that the trails they left behind would more than suffice in protecting their secret from the undeserving and in leading the deserving to the truth. They just had to bide their time and wait for the day where they can come together again in all their glory.

One day there will rise a group brave enough to restore the Christian truth.

One day they will see their legacy uncovered.

One day they will return in triumph.

Yes, one day…

A request

Ask your fellow church friends who are not group leaders but playing in the games day to bring along cameras or videocam if they want to record this once in a lifetime event.

If one of you would bring along a bible, it might come in handy. Just saying.

Team D

Justin here again, my buddy David Kang who was co-leading with me will take the helms for group D tomorrow. Can you invite him to join this blog? His e mail is fatal22@hotmail.com.

In additon to what wilson posted, here's a link to find the wireless spots....

http://www.infocomm123.sg/wireless_at_sg/coverage_areas

Team D

Justin here. I got the sms, but i'm quite worried because I've fallen very ill since thursday. Diarrhoea, throwing up, and fever.not sure if i can recover by tomorrow. I'll contact my youth pastor. Pray please.

breakfast meet n greet session

Hey all,

So far tomorrow's breakfast attendance is as follows.

Amos, Ben Cher, Serene, Derek, Hannah and myself have confirmed attendance.
Wilson and Wenyao are still to be confirmed.
I can't reach Justin Hui and Desiree from KPC so if you happen to see this please sms me at 97406197. Thanks guys!

Those who are coming and need a wakeup call also please sms me:).

Rachel

quick links

glad to know all of us are so hype up about tmr's race... i think besides going to public places like shopping centres etc, highly possible for us to go to some presby churches. here's the links for English Presbytery and Chinese Presbytery churches...

http://presbyterian.org.sg/main/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=60

http://presbyterian.org.sg/main/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=61

from the address of the church, you can go to SLA's website to find out the exact location:

http://www.map.gov.sg/StreetMap/

Need some transportation guide? What's the fastest way to reach a location? check out the street-directory.com website:

http://www.streetdirectory.com/

though the maps cannot be seen in this website anymore, the website is still functional on helping us to find our ways to locations in singapore by giving us the all-important guide - which buses or trains to take to reach the destinations we want!

all these links above can be found on the quick links section on our blog. i've added them in... not sure if it's legal... so for now, its on there! :D

Team G

hey all...

msn: wilsontaysk@gmail.com

hp: 91443480

Team E

hello!
i'm hannah from true way.... one body team E
currently waiting to enter uni... so in the meantime slacking at home... hehe... see you all tmr!
oh, my contact details:

muckin_abt@hotmail.com

hp: 97572214

Team B

heya everyone!

i'm currently in nus, final year starting this aug! quite excited really :)

to facilitate communication, my contact details are as follows:
mobile: 9385 3987
msn / email: xeneres@gmail.com

see ya tomorrow! (: serene

Hey all, I've smsed most of you about breakfast meeting tomorrow. Please reply ASAP.

GLs of One Body

One Body

A- Amos Chan(Bethel)

B- Serene Tan(GloryPC)

C - Benjamin Cher(Prinsep)

D - Justin Hui(KPC)

E - Hannah Chiang(TWPC)

F - Wenyao(GloryPC)

G - Wilson Tay(LPPC)

H - Derek See(TWPC)

I - Rachel Sim Yu Juan(Prinsep)

J - Desiree Boey(KPC)

I am one Body....Vincent Koh

team A

hey!

amos here and it seems ill be the team leader for team A.im from bethel presbytherian church, 19 and currently in army.see you guys on sat then!

amos

strategies?

seems like effective communication on this blog is the key to winning the race... any suggestions or strategies anyone?

team I

Hello all!

Team I leader here.
I'm Rachel from Prinsep Street Presbyterian and am currently waiting for university to start.
About me in a few words is.. love HIM, live life.
Can't wait for games..See you all on Sat!

love,
Rach

Hey Hey!

Hey guys! Greetings from Glory Presbyterian! =D

Looks like I'm leading Team F... Hmmmm....

Currently serving God while serving the nation

My interests span quite far and wide so really can't do it in this short paragraph (*hint* look out for a guy with a camera!)

Really look forward to seeing all of you this Saturday for a great time of fun and learning! ;)

-Wenyao

Yo!

Justin from Katong.
No idea who I'm leading yet.
Already answered the nation's call.
Pray I'll be out on Saturday!

Hello hello, I'm Ben from Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church, Leader for group C. I am currently enjoying my last days of freedom before I answer the nation's call. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Team G

Hi everyone, i'm wilson, leader for Team G... from living praise presbyterian church. am graduating from school soon. currently enjoying the last part of my holidays aka slacking at home! looking forward to the synod games this saturday... :D

Synod Games Day 08

It's official and beginning soon!