The Church, You Know, Is Not Just a Church, but a Community Hall

jeff: A lot of immigrants will build some sort of a faith institution, however they can, just to create, again, a gravitational center for their community. But at some point people have egos and people have differet agendas; the church gets large enough such that the congregation also develops factions. It's kind of like asian immigrant church planting is really about getting into big fights and then like splitting. For me, my parents, my parents a joining their church way back in the early eighties, when they first got to california. You know, it was largely for the reasons jeff stated, was finding community commonality with other corene americans or creen