My favorite destination during living in SMA Pradita so far. This place is completely suitable for me and other friends who lost our soul because too much burden to bear. Seek God's truth & Release the burdens of the world.
Rumah Retret (RR) Elika is a place that is used to spend time by rebuilding and strengthening our faith in Jesus. RR Elika is conveniently located in Bandungan, around 72 km from the spot I wrote this. It’s like a guest house but with main intention to worship God. There are some buildings for us to stay. In every building you passed, there must be figure of Jesus Cross in the wall. Day by day passed in RR Elika is filled with joyful that never stopped in just one activity went by. I recommend this place for Christian people because you will get precious values, not only worldly but also spiritually.
When you come to RR Elika, you will be provided with various menus that you can order before coming to this place. So when you have been in RR Elika, you will be focus to do the activities that you can schedule by yourself or your community. I can make sure that the food served here is very scrumptious. Even the food maybe is just ordinary food that we also eat in rukan but its taste is different. There's nothing to complain about the food, we also can add our portion if there's still space in our stomach.
The dinning hall in RR Elika can accommodate about 100 people. The tables are arranged in such a way that we can eat with a little conversation with our friends. Every table consists of 4-8 people who are in same gender, even though the parents want us to mingle with everyone but most of us are used to segregation between girls and boys.
This activity play role to strengthen a sense of brotherhood, we compete with other groups and cooperate with our group's member. In this activity, we joined 4 different games win different areas of ecah game. To win every game, we must collaborate so it made the relationship between senior and junior closer. We can know each other in different point of view, especially between each batch. Different from the situation at school, talk to senior felt like more free and casual. Not only active physically, we also had to think logically to finish and win the game. At first, the outbond run very competitively, teased each other and arrange plan strategically becase we don't let a little space for opposing team to win. But at the end, the last game run with more and more fun beause the situation also got changed, rain came and we felt free to joke and frolic. We end up with pleasant defeat. There's no regret and hate between each other because all of us had fun with no pressure and restriction. Until the rain had fallen very hard, we still continued the game until the end and cut the ribbon together in a circle as a symbol of the Christian spirit that is united in God
Before doing activities, we also had morning devotion every morning. We did morning devotion in the Worship Hall, after breakfast. We praise God extraordinarily great with full of our soul. Besides singing, we also deeply heard the reflections and sermons of several speakers and contemplate them together. It took us into true religious insight, recover our weary soul, and purify and renew our heart to have also pure mind. It is like an irresistible call from God, which immediately lead into understanding and direction to get closer and reject away from God. The vibes that felt in RR Elika are still often imagined and created a desire to return there.