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With BP Story Mailed 3-19-80 entitled--HISTORIC GUATEMALA MEET STUDIES INDIAN EVANGELISM

A TIME FOR PRAYER--K'ekchi Indian women kneel in prayer for sick

friends and relatives at the close of morning worship at Jerusalem

Baptist Church in the Pocola Valley of Guatemala. Joining in the

service (in background) are several participants from the Southern

Baptist-sponsored seminar on work with indigenous people which met

in nearby Coban. Jerusalem church was one of two congregations in the

late 1960s from which Baptist work among the K'ekchis has grown to

67 congregations today. The K'ekchi churches plan to have 100,000

members by the end of the decade. (BP) photo by Leland F. Webb