Minority IFB groups

[Sharon]

(08-07-2012 01:10 PM)LMcC Wrote:  

(08-07-2012 08:57 AM)Sharon Wrote:  My dad pastored an ethnically diverse IFB church in Jacksonville FL. When he became too ill to continue as pastor, our church (with a building but no pastor) merged with a black IFB church meeting in a storefront (with a pastor but no building.) I have never seen a church (of any denomination) as diverse as that church.

Jacksonville? Wait, what? Where was/is this church? I'm from Arlington.

we were over near Phillips Hwy & 95. I forget what that area's called, but it was not a middle class neighborhood. check your pm's for more specifics.

[James33]

(08-07-2012 02:00 PM)elfdream Wrote:  There is a very small fundamentalist Korean Church around here. They rented out the upstairs of the Scout office where my husband once worked. We would go in there on Sunday afternoons for a meeting or to pick up something. I remember hearing them singing "Holy Holy Holy" in Korean. They have since moved. I got the impression that it was just as much of a cultural meet up as it was a church. I know little else about them except it was tiny.

Some of the fundamentalist churches around here have Spanish speaking services but they aren't very highly attended. Most of the Latinos around here either don't go to church at all or have remained Catholic.

Probably small because of a church split which is common in Korean churches, or so I heard.

I've met several missionaries and I find it really funny that missionary IFBs are the total opposite of American IFBs.

Quote:Anyway. I'd say around here, you'd be hard pressed to find a truly IFB church that's also diverse or minority-attended.

Heritage Baptist Church by Pastor Fong in San Francisco is a good example of a minority-attended church. Never been there but I always wanted to do a report on a minority-based IFB church and see how it is like compared to the racist-cultish-white IFB church.

Many of my friends that are ex-IFB told me that the most genuine people amongst the IFB ranks were the minorities.

[aisforazebra]

my parents' garbc church has a hispanic congregation. the two groups are pretty separate, though. the hispanics seem much less fundy.

the white attitude towards the hispanics seems rather patronizing, imo. like an "aren't they cool/cute?" kind of thing. grouping them all together as "the hispanics," rather than individuals.

[James33]

(08-08-2012 09:50 PM)aisforazebra Wrote:  my parents' garbc church has a hispanic congregation. the two groups are pretty separate, though. the hispanics seem much less fundy.

the white attitude towards the hispanics seems rather patronizing, imo. like an "aren't they cool/cute?" kind of thing. grouping them all together as "the hispanics," rather than individuals.

The topic title clearly states minority IFB groups not minorities in white-IFB groups. I wanted to know what others thought of IFB churches that had a congregation consisting mostly minorities. There are many minority-IFB churches around the country and the world as well. Spanish, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, etc.

Would you recognize them as IFB or just fundamentalists?

[dramaturge]

(08-09-2012 03:43 AM)James33 Wrote:  

(08-08-2012 09:50 PM)aisforazebra Wrote:  my parents' garbc church has a hispanic congregation. the two groups are pretty separate, though. the hispanics seem much less fundy.

the white attitude towards the hispanics seems rather patronizing, imo. like an "aren't they cool/cute?" kind of thing. grouping them all together as "the hispanics," rather than individuals.

The topic title clearly states minority IFB groups not minorities in white-IFB groups. I wanted to know what others thought of IFB churches that had a congregation consisting mostly minorities. There are many minority-IFB churches around the country and the world as well. Spanish, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, etc.

Would you recognize them as IFB or just fundamentalists?

Since you yourself have brought up instances of minorities within predominately white IFB groups, it seems a bit unnecessary to chide someone else for doing so. I would imagine whether a church was identified as merely fundamentalist or specifically IFB would depend on whether that church identified itself as IFB or not. For example, a fundamentalist Pentecostal church wouldn't be IFB since it isn't Baptist, an SBC church could be fundamentalist but wouldn't be IFB because they're in a convention, etc. I don't see any reason to make exceptions to that just because the church is Hispanic or Black or Asian or White.