“I wanna find someone that has the same heart posture, the same love for Jesus and just has a similar outlook on life,” Keith S. said. “A positive attitude.”
Keith S. was just one of about a dozen men who attended ‘Catholic Speed Dating’ at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church on February 9.
More than a two dozen single women also attended the event at the parish on Yorktown Blvd. and Everhart Road.
“That’s the start of the next round,” said Angie Windnagle into a microphone right before a bell was rung inside the chapel.
Windnagle is the director of family life at St. John the Baptist.
She said the idea blossomed from a conversation with her friend and co-coordinator Yvonne Wright a year before.
“Yvonne and I were talking just about the difficulties of 30 and 40 year old singles and that type of demographic,” Windnagle said. “And she (Wright) had this idea of speed dating.”
After approaching the Diocese about the idea, the women were given the greenlight, thinking of ways to create a romantic ambience in the middle of a chapel.