We saw that the newcomer, somehow, makes a decision to cross a boundary from not-in-the-congregation to in-the-congregation. We tried to find out what changed for them. How were they helped to learn the language of the new community? What barriers did the new community have in place that it might not even be aware of? We also recognized that the boundary-crosser generally sees things that natives do not see, so we asked the newcomerto help us map the congregation as they experienced it.
