SPEED CONNECTING

1. Separate your group into 2 groups and make 2 circles.
2. Set up the circles/chairs with two circles: an inner and outer circle facing each other.
3. Read a question from the list below (or make up your own).
4. Have the two people who are facing each other around the circle introduce themselves and answer the question.
5. After 3 minutes or so, call “Switch” and have the person sitting in the outer circle move one seat to the right.
6. Continue the process for as long as you want.!

Questions:

1. What’s one of your happiest childhood memories?
2. Tell me 10 things that I’d see when I walk in your door?
3. What was the best birthday you ever had?
4. If you could live in any period of history, when would it be?
5. Would you like to be famous? In what way?
6. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?
7. What do you value most in a friendship?
8. Describe everyone in your family. Who are you closest to?
9. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?
10. If money was no object, what would you do all day?
11. If you could go back in time, what year would you travel to?
12. Where do you most want to travel, but have never been?
13. What is the one thing that should be taught in school that isn’t already?
14. What has been your biggest challenge?
15. What was your favorite childhood television program?
16. What would be your dream job?
17. Who is your hero?
18. What was the last movie you went to? What did you think?
19. If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
20. Would you rather vacation in Hawaii or Alaska, and why?
21. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be?
22. What’s your favorite holiday?
23. Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
24. What three things do you think of the most each day?
25. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
26. What was your first job?
27. What’s the sweetest present you’ve ever received?
28. What would be your perfect pet?
29. What’s the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done?
30. What one skill do you wish you could master?
31. What song sums up your life right now?
32. . What’s your secret phobia?

Submitted by Owin Pierson and the Virginia Youth Ministry.