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>      Taiwan Church News

>3031 Edition

>March 29~April 4, 2010

Taichung Presbytery hosts “Romantic Spring Encounter”

>Reported by Chen Wei-chien

>Written by Lydia Ma

On March 27, Taichung Presbytery women’s committee organized  a “Romantic Spring

Encounter” for single young adults. Held at Liuyuan  Presbyterian Church, this 
event attracted 25

men and 29 women. Though it didn’t exclude non-Christians,  participants were 
still required to

name a Christian friend as his or her reference.

This gathering or group blind date included a short presentation  by Rev. Chen 
Sheng-shian, a

do-it-yourself chocolate workshop, and some group activities and  games. Since 
the program

was filled with fun group activities, it diffused any awkwardness  participants 
might have felt

>otherwise.

According to event coordinator, Wu Mei-ying, this was her first  time 
organizing such an event

and she was initially worried that there might be too many ladies  and too few 
men at this event.

After asking for help from fellow coworkers and spending a lot of  time 
praying, Wu reported a

small miracle – more men than women registered for this event  at one point.

In the end, the number of men and women registered was almost  even, enabling 
Wu to divide

participants into small groups according to age and yet have  almost equal 
numbers of men and

women in each small group. Unlike other similar events held in the  past by 
other churches,

“Romantic Spring Encounter” had almost an equal number  of participants from 
both sexes.

To help these young men and women stay in touch after their  initial encounter, 
participants were

asked to write down the names of four people they would like to  get to know 
better and hand in

the list at the end of the meeting. Wu and her co-workers hope to  contact 
these people’s

respective churches and create opportunities for them to meet  again in the 
near future.

To encourage participants to take initiative and follow up, they  were invited 
to come forward and

get free movie tickets and free park tickets for a boating  excursion in 
Taichung Park. It was

reported later that one couple made good use of those tickets that  very day by 
going out

>together.

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