Howdy and welcome to the forum. Kick your shoes off, pull up a chair and help yourself to the mixed nuts and soda.
You probably want to stay away from the chocolate though. That's mine. You're welcome to it, but it's 92% cocoa so you probably don't want to try it.
I'm a Pentecostal minister myself, in Deepinaharta, Southwest Tennessee. I consider Tennessee to be about the best place in the world to live. I love it here.
A word of advice; while some people do eventually pair off here, it never seems to be the ones who come looking for someone to pair off with. The only ones who find matches here are the ones who came to socialize, chat, start conversations and participate in the conversations other people started. Serendipity is the rule here, not the exception.
If you want to find somebody here, the best way to go about it seems to be participating in a lot of conversations for a while, until people get to know you through the posts you make. But then... that's good forum advice whether you're looking for somebody or not.