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Culto, servicio o misa en español. Hispanic service o spanish mass. Iglesia cristiana bautista hispana.
Misión Bautista Hispana PA/SJ
P. O. Box 188
Irwin, PA 15642
ph: 724-863-8101
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Spanish Baptist Mission PA/SJ
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These pages Web of Spanish Baptist Mission of PA/SJ has the objective to proclaim the gospel of Christ, which is the fundamental reason of our Mission, besides to use this excellent resource of the Internet like a modest contribution to announce and to promote our ministries of the State of PA and the South Jersey. We have alive testimonies of families who today are perseverant in the ways of the Lord in some of our churches whose directions and other means of contact knew them in these pages. To God is all the glory!
These Web spaces of Spanish Baptist Mission of PA/SJ announce the Water of Life to you; indicates to you where to find it and where you can share it: Pittsburgh E, Altoona, Erie, Pittsburgh Or, Grove City, Martinsburg, New Britain, Quakertown, Easton.

Spanish and English language Churches
Celebrated The First Anniversay of Latino Congregation
Pittsburgh. PA- In a raining afternoon the Spanish Baptist Pittsburgh celebrated it the First Anniversary on Sunday, August 27, 2006 in an ambient plenty of Christian joy.
Leaders of Southern Baptist Convention in PA/SJ, pastors, and representations of five Hispanic and English speech churches met in this celebration that had around one hundred people of attendance.

Pastors John Kovalchuk, Lamar Duke and Doug Pilot
John Kovalchuk, director of ethnic churches represented the Baptist Resource Network (BRN). Doug Pilot and Lamar Duke represented the Associations around of Altoona and Pittsburgh, respectively.
The church is directed by the pastor Moises Rosario, who had in charge the conduction of the Service. Rosario appreciated the support of the State Convention, represented by Dr. David Waltz, Executive Director, and Dr. Stan Smith, Missions Director. Pastor Jonny Villamar, representing the Spanish Church of Easton, served like translator.

Mateo Lacy Octavio and Rosa Fuentes
The Spanish churches that participated in the event were Iglesia Bautista Hispana Easton and Iglesia Bautista Hispana Altoona. Pastors Shawn Kirkland and Gary Denning represented the churches Living Word Church and First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh.

Ramon Escobar, and Angel Torres and the youth group of the Spanish church of Easton


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Ed & Mary Price
Offering for State Missions
“I found very quickly that Ed and Mary Price were special people in the Lord’s vineyard-the kind of people who were faithfully and eagerly serving in the difficult and unknown places where God had placed them on the frontier of home missions. They were people of wisdom and mission wherever they were, considering every work of Christian endeavor as worthy of their best. Quality and excellence were their hallmarks.”
These words reflect the reason why the Executive Board voted in November 1986 to name the annual offering for state missions the Ed & Mary Price State Missions Offering.
In 1961 Joe Waltz, then pastor of the Pittsburgh Baptist Church, plead for Baptist laypeople to come and plant their lives in Pittsburgh. Ed and Mary put his request on their prayer list. Three weeks later Ed was asked to fill a new position in Westinghouse Corp.’s Pittsburgh office. They looked upon their transfer as a move that had in it the hand of God.
Their personal adventure with the penetration of Southern Baptists into the northeast is a marvelous story of sacrifice and dedication. Ed helped organize the Greater Pittsburgh Association in 1963 (now The Baptist Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania) which at that time encompassed all of western Pennsylvania from the Ohio line to Altoona, from the West Virginia line to Lake Erie.
In 1970 when the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania/ South Jersey was organized, Ed Price was chosen to serve as the new convention’s first president. Mary was elected president of the new PA/South Jersey Woman’s Missionary Union.
Reflecting on their call to Pittsburgh, Ed said, “I didn’t realize it at the time, but laypeople can be called to move just as surely as a pastor can.”
“We should be careful how we pray,” added Mary. “It’s a calculated risk. Often we’re
Misión Bautista Hispana PA/SJ
P. O. Box 188
Irwin, PA 15642
ph: 724-863-8101
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