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Article: Space under God's roof is shared.(City/Region)(Several Christian congregations worship in "incubator church")
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Byline: Jay Lindsay The Associated Press
NEWTON, Mass. - The languages vary from hour to hour, room to room - songs of praise, words of prayer in Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Tagalog.
These worshippers do not share an ethnic heritage, but they do share a faith, and because of that, a building.
The Newton Corner Worship Center is an incubator church, home to small conservative Christian churches that need a place to meet and, they hope, grow.
The building, once home to a dying Baptist congregation, has become a sort of a reverse Tower of Babel over the past two decades, where languages mix, but everyone understands the words are ...