Good Beachy Checklist – Part 1: Courting
For part 1 of the Good Beachy Checklist, we are going to examine our favorite topic.
If you are a Good BeachyTM, you will have accomplished the following things before you start dating courting:
- Read Christian Family Living by John Coblentz
- Read all the Josh Harris books
- Attend CBS to make sure there aren’t any
prettier/handsomer/nicer-F250/richermore Godly ones (that’ll have you) out there - Attend singles retreat at Penn Valley; see above
- Do your 12 months in “service” (preferably a place like FMH* or Hillcrest where you can reinforce the benefits of the previous two items) to increase your BO**
- Play in a volleyball tournament in PA (to show off your sweet volleyball skills, a skill very essential to obtaining a
girlfriendspecial friend) - Work out with your dad a clever and witty way to announce the relationship in your church on Sunday morning
- Surf all the Beachy girls’/guys’ Xangas and pore through the archives for photos; cross reference with the red book
- OPTIONAL BONUS: Go to a wedding with “Rachel”, but without “Ed”
- OPTIONAL BONUS: Have a serious “spiritual” discussion with her/him one-on-one
- OPTIONAL BONUS: Go on a GTO team with him/her
- OPTIONAL BONUS: Arrange things so that you are elected to youth committee with her; extra bonus points for arranging the youth relay schedule so she has to call you every time the relay comes around (ask SI/DK about that!)
- Ask her father
Please add more items in the comments.
* Not the magazine
** Beachy Orthodoxy
Lapp wrote,
If you’re a guy, “Buy a house.”
If you’re a girl, “Own an extensive collection of Pampered Chef, Tupperware, Home Interior, Longeberger, Princess House and other expensive household items.”
Link | January 20th, 2008 at 11:56 am
shelmut wrote,
Perhaps joining your local “choir” and getting lots of solo parts would help show your spirituality and willingness to be used by the Lord to minister to others.
Link | January 21st, 2008 at 12:28 am
Ira Wagler wrote,
Visit birdinhandnews.com at least once a day
Link | January 28th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Chris wrote,
The SAD part about this list is the EXTREME amount of time and effort it takes to F-I-N-A-L-L-Y arrive at the “Marriage Altar”. Perhaps this is one of the reasons “Singlehood” is skyrocketing in “Plain Circles”. Other reasons could also be mentioned but I see it’s time to close…….
Link | February 1st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
M.A.M wrote,
Am I bad off or what? I am courting, and I only did one of the requirements before hand, and since I am courting, I am working on one more thing on the list!!!
The only one I got accomplished is reading Josh Harris’ books, and the one I am working on now is the 12 months of service, but I am doing it at a place other than the cool three, being: FMH, Hillcrest and MVNH.
Should maybe start over, and try to do a little better next time! NOT!!!
Link | February 5th, 2008 at 8:34 am
kram wrote,
now who is the ones not updating?
Link | February 19th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
roxy wrote,
this sight cracks me up. i wrote a post about mennonites on a xanga i had, and i got bashed so bad by some people that i started posting on a different site. so please keep it up, even if people bash you. if they take it wrong, that’s their problem.
Link | February 20th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Chris wrote,
If “Mennonites” bash you, are they “Mennonites”? Is’nt NONRESISTANCE a big part of “Mennonites” religion? Just wondering…….
Link | February 21st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
chat wrote,
i am an avid reader of this site but am devastated that there is obviously nothing to write about. they say laugh every day for health sake so i think a post a day would be in order.
Link | February 27th, 2008 at 5:34 pm