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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, I lived in a church in the inner city of Denver one summer when I was in college,

and I was working there with a ministry that did camps for kids that lived in the city.

As a ministry, it had to solicit funds, donations, kind of pay for our activities.

They sent out a support letter midway through that summer, and I remember the support letter

had really big on the front, a massive picture of me.

And I have to say, the designer made a strong choice because

because picture, if you will, I had long flowing hair at the time, and I was crouched down,

and surrounding me were a bunch of little children, and they all had a hand on me.

Like, they just wanted to be close.

And I was looking directly into the eye of a young man, maybe six, seven years old,

and you saw in the picture the intensity of the moment that it was intimate,

we're all close and comfortable with that, but there's an intensity to it too.

Something of values being communicated and absorbed.

And as you look at that picture, I know people were thinking, man, I wish I was there.

What is happening? What is being communicated in this powerful moment?

And I knew what I was doing in that moment was communicating the rules of freeze-tag.

Because as the youngest member on the mission team, that's all they trusted me with.

But I remember I was looking in this young man's face, and I was trying to communicate this to him.

He didn't know the game, and I was telling him, when it gets you,

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