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| About the Book | |
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This book is a history about how the small English-speaking Baptist Church in South Chicago encouraged Mexican immigrants who were arriving in the area to find work shared a building in which they could worship and serve God in a Spanish-speaking environment in a Baptist worship service that began in this building in the mid-20th century. We learn about how this particular Spanish-speaking ministry was stablished and how it grew in its weekly morning, and evening worship and other services for over sixty-five years. We learn how particular congregants and their officials served here and in various Baptist associations and conventions to spread the Gospel. The latter part of this books discusses a brief history about how the Spanish-speaking Baptist congregation was the impetus for the development of a new branch of Christians in the early 1960s.
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| Reviews | |
"Thank you, George, for dedicating your time and effort to tell about the work we did in South Chicago for so many years. "Your book will tell the long over-due history of what so many members and other pastors did here including my grandfather, Rev. Pilar Muńoz and grandmother, Isabel. You are to be commended for writing our story." "I will make sure your book is displayed at our SECHS Cultural Center along with your history of Bowen High School. We have so very little information about First Baptist Church in South Chicago and the Spanish-speaking work here. It will help fill the void."
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| About the Author | |
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George Béloz is a native Chicagoan from the South East Side of this city. He attended public schools and graduated from Illinois universities. He was a teacher, professor and administrator in higher education, a diplomat in the federal government, and is a Vietnam War Era veteran. |