Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships: How You Can Help Heal Racial Divides, One Relationship at a Time

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.

Everyone wants to do something to improve race relations, but many of us don't know where to start. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, lifelong friends Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler will show you how. Through important lessons they have learned, you will learn how to begin and grow authentic friendships across racial and ethnic barriers.

Each chapter will guide you toward deeper understanding of what it takes to foster cross-cultural friendships. These powerful lessons include:

• How to overcome the fear of developing cross-cultural friendships
• How to differentiate true friends from mere acquaintances
• How Jesus initiated cross-cultural relationships
• The first two steps to your own cross-cultural friendship
• Three ways to resolve conflict in a cross-cultural friendship
• How to make friendships last a lifetime

Chapman and Shuler challenge every reader to join a movement, the Cross-Cultural Friendship Challenge, and begin changing the world one friendship at a time.

Gary Chapman--author, speaker, counselor--has a passion for people and for helping them form lasting relationships. He is the #1 bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages series and director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc. Gary travels the world presenting seminars, and his radio programs air on more than four hundred stations. For more information visit his website at www.5lovelanguages.com.

Clarence Shuler is the President/CEO of BLR: Building Lasting Relationships. He's authored ten books. He and his wife, Brenda, conduct marriage, men's, women’s, and singles seminars internationally. Clarence speaks to youth, college students, and singles about friendships, dating, biblical sex, pornography, and sexting. He and Dr. Gary Chapman speak together at The Five Love Languages, Date Night, and Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendship events. For more information, visit www.clarenceshuler.com.