I was sitting with a friend recently who was, in her words, hitting rock bottom. She was someone I had known for a long time and specifically felt a call to be intentional in accompanying her as she navigated loneliness, anxiety, and trying to find deeper peace. We had had many–what I would consider unsuccessful–conversations. I kept calling; kept listening. She kept racing around the same issues. It didn’t feel like anything was “moving forward”. 

And then her life really did hit a moment of implode. I sat with her over dinner when I heard her self-proclaim, “this is rock bottom.” I had empathy for her, but not necessarily the next steps. It was then that I thought of this video by Pete White and this story by Asia. I might not have the sight to know how to move forward, but there were people who were experts in this exact thing.

It was a beautiful experience of what we like to call “accompanying in community”. 

To be fair, sending a video to someone is not necessarily rocket science–more like a very normal social interaction. You see something that reminds you of a friend on social media or a newsletter, and send it their way. “Hey, this made me think of the conversation we had the other day.” 

So why is it important to address when we accompany others? Why formalize it? 

First, it’s easy to feel like someone’s salvation is all on you, or worse, your pride feels like you’re capable of that. But we believe accompanying in community is the best way because it allows the body of Christ to be present and active. It sets a precedent for you to not carry the whole load, and in turn, allows more and more of God’s glory to touch the people you love. 

Second, there’s a lot of amazing content out there, but we also feel called to create something very specific. 

We are living through an epidemic of human formation deficit. People are lonelier, more disoriented, and more spiritually hungry than any generation in recent memory — 74% of people want to grow spiritually (Engaging the Spiritually Open - Barna), and yet the distance between that hunger and the Church's capacity to meet it has rarely felt wider.

We feel called and passionate about building specific series and stories that touch on this needed formation, in a way that guides people towards truth in the same way that we guide people in dialogue. It’s worldview dialogue in the digital form. 

It’s more than just sending someone a good video but one that points them towards what is good, true, and beautiful. We want to help people in what it means to be human.