Members attended: Thomas, Melinda, Andrew, Jospeh, and Jane
Date: Oct 1 (Firday)
Place: Starbucks

Topic: Friendship and dating

Purpose: To know from scripture how God can help in different areas of dating and friendship-building

Format: I wrote some situations on one side of a piece of cardpaper and wrote a bible verse that is related to solving the problem. I had everyone picked some cards and read them out. Then we discussed the situations and talk about how we might usually handle them. After that, we consulted the bible verses and tried to find out the biblical perspective of the problem.

Comments: This format was really well! The dating and friendship siutaions were relevant to the lives of high school students and therefore, we were able to have a great discussions. Unfortuntely, the bible verses I found were not that relevant to the situations. We had some difficulities in applying what we read in the bible to what the situations. This is what we have to imporve in next time. We have to strive for finding better bible verses. But overall, the atmosphere was great and it seemed that everyone enjoyed it.

Suggestion for improvement:
find verses that are relevent to the situation

new ideas: Next time, we might experiment with handing out a psychological test to everyone attended the small group and get to know more of their personalities. Then we will find the bible verses in which that