We’re all searching for answers to life’s biggest questions. What if the church created spaces where people could find them?
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Picture a group of immigrants and students gathered in a warm church room, sipping tea and stumbling through English conversations. This is the ministry of 2:19 Teach to Reach, a conversational English program that’s so much more than language lessons. Using proverbs from around the world, volunteers support language learners and spark conversations about life’s deepest questions related to family, purpose, and what gives life meaning.
The room, filled with the usual nervous chatter that comes when groups of strangers gather, became a different kind of space: a magnetic space, an oasis in a world that felt like it was pulling us all apart. Magnetic spaces are environments that can promote civility and also the gospel of Jesus Christ. In our fractured, angry times, we desperately need places like this in order to catch our breath and find our way.
