Iglesia Evangelica Bautista, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, held a fall festival for children. The kids—from the church and community—played games, sang songs, and heard the gospel.
The festival is an annual event for the church. “We are so grateful for God’s faithfulness once again,” the church says. “We had a great time.”
Iglesia Evangelica Bautista turned 70 years old this fall.
The church began when a missionary couple “heard that there were possibly 6,000 Spanish-speaking people living in the city of Philadelphia,” the church says.
That news motivated the couple “to knock on the doors of houses in the city to begin a survey that would allow them to determine where this population was and to know if it would be possible to plant a ministry for this community,” says The Latin Sun of Philadelphia.
With favorable survey results, the couple planted a Spanish-language church.
Beginning in 1951, the church held worship services, a children’s Bible club, and outdoor evangelistic services in neighborhoods where a high concentration of Spanish-speaking people lived. But the church considers its date of birth October 1953, when the congregation and its charter members met to officially organize the church.
