Story number 4 for 21 Dec 1999

Meanwhile, officials with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board are mobilizing Hispanic Christians for missions in the United States. That encouragement came from a meeting of Hispanic Baptist leaders recently in Rockville, Virginia. Officials say the Latino population in the U-S has grown 38-percent since 1990. By 2005, Hispanics are projected to make up one-quarter of the country’s population. Because the U-S is in a spiritual crisis, Hispanic leaders are being asked to rise up and use their cultural gifts in evangelism.