While each interview followed a basic format, I also allowed for variance in what experiences, meanings, or explanations interviewees used to answer these questions. In fact, I was using the interviews in a two-fold manner; to fill out existing themes found in my fieldnotes and to obtain detailed accounts of past religio-cultural events. These interviews gave content to the basic theoretical frames of informal networking, the relationship between Christianity and ethnicity, and becoming and being Christian. In particular, although I used an interview schedule, through the observation process I picked up on language and symbols that I asked the interviewees to expand on such as "doing friendship," "fellowship," and "going native." The meanings behind these phrases given in interviews will be further explored and analyzed in the findings section.