Charles+

Yeah, me too.  The RC's here are all over it, as are the Pentecostals.  And
one Baptist church.  But as for the rest, well, as you said, they seem to
generally ignore the Hispanics.  Perhaps some of this is cultural, and I
know that a big part of it is linguistic.  The Mexican population of our
county continues to grow, but because of the language issue they pretty much
keep to themselves.  Rome was smart in that they brought in an Hispanic
Priest and planted "Our Lady of Guadalupe" Church right in the middle of the
Mexican community.  Smart.  And the Pentecostals have done the same thing.
As for the rest of the churches in our community, well, I'm afraid that we
either just don't know how or don't have the talent to work with them.  I've
always been curious as to what Fr. Mojica is doing up in New Jersey.

As an aside, I'm always plowing around in the ECUSA web-sites looking for
tid-bits, and a portion of the site for the Diocese of Southern Ohio is
bilingual.  Southern Ohio with a large Hispanic population, or any Hispanic
population for that matter; what gives?  As far as I knew, the only
immigrants and foreigners in Southern Ohio were from Kentucky!  :)

MLW+
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Scott" <crscott@...>
To: <mward@...>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] Atlantic Monthly


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> >From: "Michael L. Ward" <mward@...>
> >Reply-To: "Michael L. Ward" <mward@...>
> >To: faithandlife@...
> >Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] Atlantic Monthly
> >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:58:55 -0400
> >
> >Mark+
> >
> >I thought the old Evangelical/Catholic debate was pretty dead everywhere
> >but in the Continuing Church.  But here in Florida -- at least in South
> >Florida -- the issue really isn't one of an influx of Africans but the
> >ever-growing Latin population.  If I spoke Spanish we could just about
> >build another church here, and the farther south one goes, the truer that
> >becomes.
> >
> >MLW+
> >
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>
> Fr. Mike+
>
> In this part of the midwest there is a rapidly growing Latin populace that
> seems to be ignored by all but the Pentecostal churches.
>
> There is one RC church that is enjoying significant growth, but for the
most
> part I don't see any of the old line denominations doing much.
>
> Charles+
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