August 6, 2004
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Speed Dating Tuesday
Lcshih’s post inspired me to give this a try. Let’s do the math: 20 dates in 2 hours works out to 6 minutes per date, minus overhead. Say 4 minutes of actual conversation.
Looks like Maye and some other Highrockers are going also.
Can anyone think of good ways of working the evangelistic angle? I think the questions “Do you believe in God?” or “Do you go to church?” are too confrontational and loaded with baggage. I’ll have Highrock business cards printed out beforehand, but need a good intro to hand them out.
Comments (16)
hmmm. how about “you think I’m hot? Wait until you see the other guys at this church!”
hahaha.
Ok, I need to bring Alan’s picture with me too.
good luck & have fun my friend
hey I just had lightbulb
why don’t some of u enterprising high rockers host a christian speed dating thing, bringing a bunch of boston area young adult christians together. peterskim can set up a website. marmite can help promote. changed can rock in other ways. many others can help pull it together & do a good thing for lots of people looking specifically for a christian/asian christian soulmate.
i can show up!
are you going??
Cesareborgia- I may be mistaken on this, but I thought Park Street might have tried this before? I think it’d be fun to try. Especially if we made it “dress to impress” =)
i was thinking that something like this would be good just for getting to know people in the church better. college, yag and families don’t know each other? not a lot of cross-group conversations? try “speed-meeting”! …then people might know a lot more people in church and feel more comfortable talking people that are just ‘randoms’ right now.
Yeah, Lance, we should do that at all-church retreats.
Shoe, I think Park St. might have tried it, but I only heard about it afterwards. In general, there isn’t a lot of inter-church communication except through individuals like joyosity and JKoolayd.
Maye, I’ll see you there!
I meant, I could help out by showing up. I don’t think I’ll be going to the AA one; I have enough game as it is. =)
Yes, Park Street did do this a while back– they called it “Ten Minute Dating”. Tricky issue about the evangelistic angle — it’s might weird people out if you start trying to work Christianity into this esp. if you’re also leading people towards a specific church because then they could get the impression that you’re just there to recruit people to your religion.
It might be more natural to do this in one of their other non-focused settings (e.g. big bash premiere to the White Castle movie that they had) since those are more geared towards generalized socializing. But I dunno, I’m just trying to put myself in their shoes. I guess this somewhat depends on approach – if they asked me what interests I have, I’d talk about church somewhere in there and go on their reaction.
or a friday night when small groups aren’t going on. or anytime.
hmm… whatever it takes to meet people these days…
good luck! maybe you’ll luck out and find a christian girl who was also roped into this by her friends!
i’m in favor of house parties where there is a clash of worlds of friends so people can meet each other.
you’re right ed, your dating entries do get the most responses! hahaha…=) have fun!!
been totally off xanga for the last few weeks since I’ve been in japan and taiwan, but this is a good idea! haha, the speed-meeting one more so. I wish there was one in seattle… ;p
enjoy!
, sorry, I mean, 8)