Word: churches
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Harry loved a girl named Diane. He guesses he was 12 when the very sight of her--the hazel-eyed beauty from the next town over in North Carolina--knocked him back on his heels. "I think it might have been at a church social," he says, 59 now and dusted at the temples. Harry courted her with the little time he didn't spend working the tobacco and cotton fields his family farmed: "We wrote to each other when I went away in the service. She was my military sweetheart...
...They have their Portuguese bank, their own convenience stores. At church, there are services in Portuguese," Cerqueira says. "They really live an isolated experience. If they spoke English, they would've been able to make a better life. They would've done better job-wise...
When Argaw's first niece was born in Cambridge, she had to be baptized in an Armenian church, since there were no Ethiopian churches in the area...
Argaw says she contacted an Ethiopian priest, and they organized services in Ethiopian. For months, the congregation moved from church to church. They currently hold services at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Central Square...
Argaw says the congregation was recently able to raise enough money to buy a church in Boston, which they will call the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Debreselam St. Michael's Church. They will be able to hold services at whatever time they want...