Organic vs Online Dating Workshop | BRMC Equip Single Ministry

Details 

This is a Singles Workshop on "Organic Dating versus Online Dating” – Navigating the pitfalls and plus-points."  

Target Audience: 

Dating singles, users of dating apps, people who want to be informed about the use of dating apps eg: parents and connect group leaders are welcome to attend.  

Objective: 

This is not a dating or matchmaking event but an equipping event. Singles will learn to exercise godly wisdom in the dating scene. Speaker will share real stories of her experience in dating and as a dating practitioner. There will be time for personal sharing, role play and group interaction.  

Register here: https://brmcsg.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1981139 

Date: Sat 6 April 

Time: 9am to 2pm (*Refreshments at 8.30am)

Venue: BRMC, L2 Training Rooms

Cost: $5  

Our Speaker is Ms Grace Heng

Grace is founder of Sacred Companion SG in 2021. She is constantly on the look-out for churches and individuals who have the same passion to serve the singles and equip them. She is a Dating Practitioner. (Social Development Network) She worships at Bethel Presbyterian Church and is the Lead for Singles Ministry there. She was trained in SBC and SU. Grace was one of the invited speakers at the Global Dating Insights Conference 2023.

Workshop Schedule: 

Divine or Designed? 

Navigating Love in the Era of Apps and Events—Is It Less Godly?

• Welcome (Ice Breaker, Worship, Opening Prayer)
• Intro (About Me, What is this feeling, Workshop objective, Talk it out , Verse)
• Addressing the elephant (Addressing elephant, Scoping activity, Talk it out)
• What’s out there? (Dating scene in Singapore, Dating agencies in Singapore, Dating apps in Singapore, Marketplace for Christian singles, Question from community, Q&A)

Toilet Break

• Role Play (The Deceptive Digital Darling, The Disastrous Blind Date, The Uninspiring Encounter)
• Questions about the search (Answering questions from survey completed by singles community)
• Margins (Margins, knowing when to stop)

Lunch (Group discussion over lunch)

• Group presentation (Groups to present what they have discussed for mutual learning)
• The need for clarity (Love the life you never wanted (10 promises for every pain), 9 Prayers for the not yet married, Radical dating (clarity before intimacy, communication, boundaries), What happens after one start dating?, What happens when it doesn't work out?)
• Q&A (Answering questions from survey completed by singles community)
• Closing & End