The Multi-Cultural Church

I am struggling with the concept of a multi-cultural church. I would like to believe that it is possible this side of heaven. What is hard is that I grew up in the deep south and racial lines have been drawn so clearly in the sand, "You can go here and no further." But I am encourage by the fact that I met a young couple from the west coast who said to me that the Midwest has a long way to go. On the west coast race is not the determining factor. As a matter of fact they did not even notice race. For us to create a multi-cultural church we have to see each other not through the eyes of our segregated past, but through the eyes of our Resurrected Lord. It is what St. Paul reminds us in Galatians 3: 26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, 27for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. "