The first sophomore small group meeting!

Yesterday was the first meeting this semester for the sophomore girls' small group! Now that most of them moved out of the dorms and have settled into apartments like real adults, we met at one of their places. We started off with a game called "this is not funny" where you have to say ridiculous lines and manage not to laugh. Of course, our resident 'laugher' Lindsey, who laughs at anything and everything, lost the game because she couldn't keep a straight face while reading, saying or listening to the lines. Actually, she was laughing at other people's lines even though the person who was saying them wasn't! So we punished her by making her
act like sizzling bacon in a pan (yes, you read that right). Then Sheri "the veteran bacon demonstrator" showed us what sizzling bacon is supposed to look like! (The video clips are available on Youtube – just kidding!) Anyway, after playing silly games, we reviewed last week's message at Gracepoint Fellowship Church on John 4 about the Samaritan Woman who sought after all the wrong things to fulfill her need to be loved unconditionally. We discussed what we do to put up masks to fulfill our thirst for love and how we often disguise and hide because we fear rejection. But my hope for our sophomore small group is that it will be a place where it's safe and honest without any pretense or disguise and all of them will experience God's unconditional love this coming semester.

What are you looking forward to most about small group? Leave a comment!