It was 2016 when Aaron Anderson, a white, Classical Christian school headmaster in York Pennsylvania—a racially diverse city of 450,000 in Central Pennsylvania—invited black ministers, chiefs of police and other area pastors to begin a monthly meeting together.

The purpose? To create dialogue and build trust between members of law enforcement and the community. There was nothing like it. And there were plenty of reasons it shouldn’t work. But today, several years later, they met for another weekly meeting and community relations with law enforcement couldn’t be stronger.