From this week's Baptist Standard ("published 2008-07-08")
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Redwood Baptist Church leaders consistently promote multicultural ministry, and the church’s diverse congregation testifies to those efforts. Combined, the Hispanics, African- Americans, and people with special needs at Redwood Baptist Church equal the number of Anglos in the congregation, which is a healthy proportion, Lanning noted.
Rodriguez translates sermons into Spanish to make them accessible to the Hispanic congregation.
The church’s diversity is a result of active outreach, Lanning said.
“Church growth and church planters won’t succeed with homogeneous groups,” he said.
Ethnic diversity “has to be intentional.”
Ethnic diversity “has to be intentional.”
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