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Moving the rock : poverty and faith in a Black storefront church / Mary E. Abrums.

by Abrums, Mary Elyeen.

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Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2010.

African American women -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Religion.

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http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=019011586&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

9780759113190 (cloth : alk. paper)

075911319X (cloth : alk. paper)

9780759113213 (ebook)

0759113211 (ebook)

xxxiv, 217 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Introduction: A short history -- Morning Sun Missionary Baptist Church -- Morning Sun Church and its leaders -- The family -- Motherhood : "somebody prayed for me" -- The women of Morning Sun Church -- The Lake family -- Molly Lake Lander : "I guess I have to go to Jesus" -- Caren Lake : "having a dream" -- Mahalia Lake : "I don't ask the Lord to move the mountain; just give me the strength to climb it" -- Mable Jackson -- Mable Jackson : "all I asked the Lord for was a man with a cigarette and a job" -- The Jones family -- Betty Jones : "I like to go!" -- Joann Jones Newton : "when God comes, he's getting some of every race" -- Marie Jones Smith : "getting that made-up mind" -- Linda Wilson, Marie's daughter : "all these years I have become stronger" -- The research process -- The research, the women, and me.

Tells the stories of a group of African-American women who belong to a small storefront church in central Seattle, describing how they have endured poverty, racism, and the challenges of raising their children.

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