Word: glorieta
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...abuilding in New Mexico. It is just about big enough (2,000 acres) to hold the twelve tribes of Israel, and it sounds, from the description of its boosters, like a land of milk & honey. From all over the U.S., some 3,000 Baptist Sunday-school teachers converged on Glorieta for seminars and steak fries, lectures and horseback riding, hiking and hymn-sings. It was their first glimpse of the camp, which, when it is finished in 1956 at an estimated cost of $7,000,000, will boast gardens, an artificial lake, hotels, dining halls, cottages and cabins to house...
Perhaps the most interesting feature about Baptist Glorieta is its location-right in the heart of traditionally Roman Catholic New Mexico. It is the latest and biggest sign of a Baptist invasion of New Mexico which has the invaders themselves surprised. In 1912, when the largely Spanish-speaking state was admitted to the Union, it contained 13 Baptist churches, with a total membership of a little over 2,000. Today New Mexico has 225 Baptist churches and over 60,000 members. New Mexico's Roman Catholic Church is officially unconcerned, but last month at a Catholic conference in Albuquerque...
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