"Barba also writes about the role of women in these church spaces 'who were the foundation of the church,' despite not given ministerial credentials to become preachers. They raised money for the building of churches by selling food and made the worship spaces look holy through their handmade goods, such as doilies and fabric embroidered with biblical phrases, Barba said.
To do a material history of this Mexican Pentecostal movement is to do women’s history,' Barba told Religion News Service."
~ Alejandra Molina
"New book spotlights influence of Pentecostalism on California’s Mexican farmworkers" - The Presbyterian Outlook
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