For Ramadan, Pastor Rick J. Cole of Capital Christian Center one of the regions oldest and largest fundamentalist churches gave a sermon to about 500 Muslims and their friends at the Sunrise Event Center in Rancho Cordova on Friday. Cole, whose 98-year-old Assemblies of God church was long considered the most conservative in the region, has been reaching out to gays, Jews and now Muslims to break down barriers and biases.
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During a sermon at Capital Christian Church, Pastor Rick Cole apologizes to two people who were wronged by the church years ago. He apologized to Ben Sharpe, an African American who was stripped of his valedictorian status in 1995 after shaving his head in the 8th grade. Also mentioned was Christina Silvas of Sacramento, whose daughter was not allowed to attend school there because Silvas worked as an erotic dancer in 2001.
