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BALTIMORE — More than once, Eric
and Andrea Lorick have arrived for
Sunday worship only to find their
church’s parking lot roped off with
police tape, officers swarming the
asphalt that, only hours earlier, had
become a killing field.
The Inner City Church of Christ, the
congregation the couple has served for
Five years ago, Arlington’s
burgeoning Hispanic population
inspired Great Cities Missions — best
known for training and recruiting
missionaries for Latin America — to
plant a Spanish-speaking congregation
in the heart of Dallas-Fort Worth.
That church plant shares space
with the English-speaking Hillcrest
church and is known as the Arlington
HAMIL R. HARRIS
Eric and Andrea Lorick serve the Inner-City
Church of Christ in northeast Baltimore.
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ARLINGTON, Texas
esides a Family Dollar store, the
shopping center across the street
from the Hillcrest Church of
Christ features a Latino market
called Supermercado El Rancho.
Those with dirty clothes can’t miss
the nearby lavanderia (“laundromat”).
four years, meets in a gritty Baltimore
shopping strip between a Subway
restaurant and a liquor store.
Despite the drug dealers, crime,
vice and at least two homicides since
the church opened its doors here, the
Baltimore couple can’t think of a place
they’d rather minister.
“Everybody was planting churches
in the county, but nobody was planting
See INNER CITY, Page 27
Iglesia de Cristo — Spanish for
“Church of Christ.”
On a recent Sunday, the Latino body
took another step in its growth and
development by merging with another
Spanish-speaking congregation.
Elders of the Hillcrest church
welcomed the merger. Most Sundays,
the English-speaking service is at
See MERGER, Page 10
prayer for
stability.
A glaze
of melting
snow coated
the ground
that Tuesday
afternoon as
my cousin,
Stephen, and
I — aided
by a cadre
of white-haired Lutherans
— carried our 97-year-old
grandmother to her final
resting place. She’s next
to grandpa now. He’s been
waiting for her for 21 years.
Outside the serene
confines of Woodlawn
Cemetery, a storm of fiery,
foul language was about to
overtake the media. Once
again, the topic was immi-
grants — from Haiti, Africa
and, of all places, Norway.
I don’t want to make a
fuss. (That is, after all, the
unofficial state motto of
South Dakota.) But I do
feel compelled to share my
family’s experiences as the
descendants of immigrants
and my own experiences from
time spent with immigrants in
countries around the world.
My grandma, Margaret
Loen, was the grand-
daughter of Norwegian
immigrants. They quietly,
dutifully, worked the soil
of South Dakota’s Miner
County. She met Irvin 0.
Tryggestad, whose parents
came from Norway in 1910.
One day he asked her, “Do
you want to marry me or
would you rather be a-Loen?”
See IMMIGRANTS, Page 4
The faith and hard
work of immigrants
from Norway, Africa
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
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I feared that I might
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casket, so I sent up a silent
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Texas Hispanic churches merge
COMBINED CONGREGATION marks another step in the growth of Spanish-speaking church plant.
Ministry couple shows love for inner city - and each other
BY HAMIL R. HARRIS | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
CHRIS TARRANT
Juan Carlos Bautista and other Christians hold hands as they pray during an assembly marking the merger of two Spanish-speaking churches.
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Tryggestad, Erik. The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2018, newspaper, February 1, 2018; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1509386/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.