The Cafe at Borders in Milestone Shopping Center is a great place for people of difference religious backgrounds or no religious background to come together to openly dialogue about spiritual things. I hope that we can add some more places for informal discussion without any pressure or “hard sellling” - just interaction and conversation.

It’s been great to get into so many spiritual topics at the Open Meetings at Borders every Wednesday night. I think people want to engage each other about spiritual things but not be judged about whatever they want to express. There are few places that try to create that kind of atmosphere - especially the church. We want to create environments where people can openly express things about God, faith and spirituality - even a disbelief about things if that’s what they’re feeling.

I think God really enjoys intervening and surprsing people. We were hanging out at the Open Meeting (or Open2Talk Discussion Group) at the Borders cafe last week. A couple sitting next to our table jumped into the discussion topic - Temple, synagogue, church … none of them connect with me so why bother with God?

It turned out that they had a Jewish background. We began to share with each other about our own spiritual backgrounds and just learn. Before we knew it they were closing and we were still sharing. We went all over the place spiritually by discussing the Old Testament from a Jewish perspective and also getting into the New Testament from a Jewish perspective too. It was great!