wfn.org | Buoyed by success, presbytery plans another match-making event

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>April 26~May 2, 2010

Buoyed by success, presbytery plans another match-making event

>Reported by Chen Wei-chient

>Written by Lydia Ma

PCT Changhua Presbytery’s youth ministry department organized  a match-making 
event for

singles last year in hopes that it would result in a few  successful matches. 
The presbytery is

pleased to announce that two youth who attended the event will  soon tie the 
knot.

Buoyed by this success, Changhua Presbytery staged a similar event  this year 
on April

23~25. It hoped that through a retreat filled with fun activities,  young 
adults would get to know

new friends and meet prospective mates. This year’s retreat  was held at Sun 
Moon Lake

Presbyterian Church and 18 men and 16 women between the ages of 30  and 40 took 
part.

According to the presbytery’s youth coordinator, Yang  Huei-Ru, her team didn’t 
have any

experience organizing such an event last year. That is why they  were delighted 
to learn that

they had helped one couple meet and get married soon afterward.  After 
obtaining permission,

Yang’s team used the couple’s wedding portraits on the  cover of posters 
promoting this year’s

>retreat to encourage young people to sign up.

Yang said last year’s experiences helped her team design this  year’s events, 
which included

more games and group activities. The team designed games similar  to those used 
on popular

television shows that are specifically aimed at helping men  understand women 
and vice versa.

One of the games divided participants into two groups –  “men’s group” and 
“women’s group”

– and each group had to answer identical questions so that  participants could 
hear how the

other sex thought differently on an issue. In some instances,  participants 
could also call out a

member of the other team to answer a question to get to know that  person 
better.

According to Yang, about half of the participants found someone  they admired 
who

reciprocated their feelings. This fact was confirmed through  confidential 
questionnaires at the

end of the event asking participants to fill out names of people  they liked. 
She hopes the

success of this event will encourage other young adults to take  more 
initiative.

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