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offer them milk, rice and beans. They come three hours a day, three days a week. They have a half hour of Bible study each day. They come to see what type of person you are and receive food based on punctuality and attendance. You use everything you are and everything you have. You become absorbed.”
The three agreed that their children and their toys became a way of winning people. Children came to play with the missionaries’ children and their toys and then the parents became interested.
Mrs. Boswell said the center also offered medical help once a week and psychological counselling. “It’s a ministry to the total person,” she said. The cars and trucks they have are also vital to the ministry, they explained. Mrs. Boswell said her Nissan double-cab pickup truck is a “counselling center, taxi, and moving van.”
She said her children loved Peru and as a result of their experiences are comfortable in either country and with poor people or rich people. One son is planning to become a missionary.
Darwin Sokoken is a native Filipino who was sent out by the Home Missions Board to pastor the Phillippine community in Chicago. He said many Filipino nurses and medical workers came to the Chicago area in 1968. They were recruited by the government to work in the large public Cook County Hospital. The nurses could make 10 times as much money in Chicago as they could at home. They became naturalized citizens and petitioned to have their relatives brought here. Now there are 100,000 Filipinos in the Chicago area, he said.
He had worked as the editor of an evangelical newspaper in Manilla and came to the United States to study urban ministry. When he was finished his studies and preparing to return home, the Home Mission Board recruited him to go to Chicago. He heads the only Filipino Southern Baptist Church in Chicago, but more ministers have been recruited and the Chicago Fellowship SBC has set the goal of planting 10 more Filipino churches in the next five years. They have started a Bible school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
His congregation shares a church with a white Southern Baptist congretation. “It’s a nice partnership,” he said. “They’re very supportive of what we are doing.”
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