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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 and as a ministry it had to solicit

funds donations to kind of pay for our activities so so 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 picture it, 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 happening, what is being communicated in this powerful moment?

And I knew what I was doing in that moment was communicating the rules of Friestag.

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.

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