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One is a Pentecostal, mostly African American congregation of 22,000,
led by a world-renowned bishop with global ministries that extend to
Africa and Haiti.

The other is one of the largest Latino evangelical churches in the
city, whose Spanish-language ministries serve more than 4,000 members,
most of them Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants and their children.

Located just four blocks apart along Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los
Angeles, the two mega-churches — West Angeles Church of God in Christ
and Iglesias de Restauracion — had never broken bread together, as
cultural and linguistic differences kept them apart.



But that all changed Thursday night, when more than 1,500 believers
from both churches worshiped together in what organizers billed as a
historic attempt to overcome black-brown differences through shared
faith and a sacred covenant to jointly address the violence, poverty
and health problems that afflict both communities.


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–Teresa Watanabe


For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20 KJV