Kairos South Pacific

Leaving school and entering university or workforce can be a very stressful time for young people. The singles' group aims provide an environment of good and clean fun, genuine brotherly and sisterly relationships among them until they are ready to move on their state of life. In order for them to become strong spouses and parents later on in life, they need to grow in their character starting now that they are singles. They need to set their priorities right, know how to manage money, know how to relate to people who are different to them, among many other things.

The singles' group focuses on supporting young people especially in two areas that are unique and special in their lives: career choices and state of life decisions. The singles' group wants to provide an alternative to young people regarding these areas of their lives, and help them to make their own decisions for their own lives in a Godly manner.

The singles' group is also a place where singles can meet other singles. Singles need to identify themselves with other singles.

If you are interested in attending one of our meetings, please e-mail us.

1. To follow Jesus radically.

2. A transition for single men and women in the community from Encounter Jesus to full membership in the Lamb of God Community.

3. Bring young adults to Christ into the Lamb of God Community.

4. Alternative social life.

5. Character and spiritual formation.

6. Build strong brotherly and sisterly relationships; emphasis on brothers with brothers and sisters with sisters.

7. To be ecumenical.

8. Use our gifts/talents creatively – dance, drama, arts, music, etc.

9. Have fun.

Key Scripture Verses

This is a sample meeting of the Singles Group:

The topic for that Friday night was "Team building" so Elroy and I split them up into three groups and and three different stations with three different instant dessert mixes (devil chocolate cake, chocolate brownies, and chocolate caramel muffins). We asked them which group they wanted to be in by taking up the chocolate cake and making the muffins seem boring, hence everyone wanted to make the chocolate cake. Then they went to their station and started cooking. Each dessert needed certain ingredients (eggs, oil, butter, muffin tray, etc.) but earlier we switched some of their ingredients around i.e gave one group 4 eggs when then only needed 1 and another group 2 when they needed 3. While they were cooking Elroy and I observed their interactions. at one point I took a spatula from one group and gave it to another group without them realising. After all the desserts were made and put into the oven, we came together for an analysis of the activity and the main points that we brought up were:

• When asked to choose which dessert to make, everyone wanted the yummy chocolate and didn't want the boring muffins. We compared this to teachings vs. socials, everyone wants to come to the fun socials but not the "boring teachings" but they later found out that they wanted both after finding out that the chocolate caramel muffins were the most delicious of all. We need both teachings and socials in this group.
• During the cooking they started to realise that they didn't have all the ingredients they needed or that others had more than enough so they all shared around their resources. This highlighted that we all need to draw on each other and work together as a complete group. When people don't come to meetings there's a gap, like if we had one less egg the cake would fall apart.
• While observing we noticed some hostility/competitiveness between the groups people saying "our cake is better than your dumb brownies". there was also tight bonds within each group while they defended their dessert. We compared this to cliques that may arise and we have to be watchful this doesn't happen because in the end we were all working together to create a delicious feast for the end of the meeting, we weren't separate but different parts of the body.
• When I stole the spatula from one group, they came around to each group yelling "who stole our spatula??" and accusing the other groups. This is an example of how outside "forces" can come and cause disunity in our group. We need to stand together rather than turn on each other if bad things happen to us.