Stories tagged with: u.s. citizenship

• Citizenship buoys father-son Hispanic pastors

  by Brian Blackwell/Louisiana Baptist Message, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  FLORIEN, La. (BP) -- Arturo Us is "thankful to God I'm a U.S. citizen."

  Us, who hails from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, ministers to Hispanics throughout three Louisiana parishes (counties) as pastor of El Aposento Alto Baptist Church in Florien.

  "I'm blessed," Us said of earning U.S. citizenship last November with his son Arturo Jr, pastor of El Alfa Y La Omega in Leesville, La. "I think it's the will of God that He brought me here to this place," Us said. Read More