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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, I grew up in the suburbs of Houston,

and it wasn't an entirely monocultural experience.

I had a Muslim neighbor from Egypt, had a Hindu neighbor from India on either side of my house, but it was a primarily white

experience. It wasn't until high school that I could say honestly I had a close

black friend that was able to for the first time explain to me some of his

experience growing up in a primarily white neighborhood and we would process

that together and I'll never forget the day he took me to the movie theater to see minutes to society.

And we walked in the theater and I noticed both of us got nervous and for me I realized later

it was my first time to be in the minority ethnically in a room I had never

experienced that and then I looked and he was nervous, I think, because he was the guy who brought the only white guy to the movie.

But by the time I got to college, I was a part of campus crusade for Christ and they had opportunities in the summer.

You could go to different parts of the world for the summer and it wasn't just a little

mission trip, it was to go integrate into a culture.

You'd get a job work and many of them are

overseas primarily most of my friends went to China but there was a brand new

opportunity to go to the inner city of Denver and live there and have a multicultural

experience and I wanted to go and I wanted to understand more than I did. So I

moved into a pretty rough neighborhood that in the middle of it was a very

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