i am ron swisher last month we celebrated black history month as we have done for a number of years here on mosaic and celebrate women's history month here in march we are plaid to have dr. nixon. >> dash pleased to have dr. nixon. >> thank you for coming. >> you bet. >> your ministry is known throughout the bay area tell us about your background. >> actually i come from the hills of new hampshire. and i grew up conservative baptist and for people that don't know what i tell them really in order to truly understand conservative baptist we used to think the southern back tests were liberal. that is how i -- baptists were liberal. that is how i grew up rural town 500 people went to a local school there and then high school and grew up playing outdoors, having a great time with nature and with my friends and but you know, it shapes you where you are from so we had really two very conservative newspapers, not hardly any div.ty, and being -- diversity and being in a con is vair tiff baptist church didn't -- conservative baptist church didn't see women doing a whole lot other than being with c