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Doctor Carl C Bacchus, originally from Dallas Texas have been the minister of the South side Church of Christ. Over 60 years, I came from Dallas from high school over at the Lincoln uh high school in Dallas Texas. I started preaching at an early age, not only

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in the Church of Christ, but several denominational churches while I was in Dallas. And I came to Los Angeles to further my education. If I remember correctly. In 1955 I was given a scholarship at Pepperdine and I was honored to work with the administration to further

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my education and to work with brother RN Hogan in the ministry of the Figure Road Church of Christ. Mr Hogan was one of our outstanding ministers of the Chases of Christ. He tutored me. He gave me opportunities to preach there. And when he converted a baptist

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preacher, he decided that along with the ows to uh guide me and direct me to build the congregation up. And I started with a small group of nine members and I was honored to ask to organize the church and to get it stabilized in the ministry.

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Uh I was united in marriage with beautiful young lady from Michigan, Mount Clemens, Michigan. I thought it was an honor for me to get the north in the south together. And we were happy to have three Children in our family. And they are faithful members of

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the church now and still having me in my ministry and I appreciate them working with me all the years. My native home is and my family was in Dallas Texas for the Washington was my ministry at that time. And I started my preaching in Dallas Texas

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with brother Washington. And uh he tutored me. He ordained me as one of the ministers of the Lawrence and Mara Street Church of Christ. Brother Hogan encouraged me to come and further my ministry here uh in Los Angeles because so many uh colleges of the Church

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of Christ was segregated and I wanted to come to an integrated uh campus where I could meet people of other nationalities because I'll be ministering to other people other than just black people. And I've been here for the last 60 odd years. I was grateful that

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I got the scholarship. I can't recall his name either. I think it was Pus. He gave me the scholarship because of my academic record in high school. And I was grateful that I think uh enabled me to start my, I work at Pepperdine. We didn't have

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many black uh students at Pepperdine at that time. But to my memory, Robert mccall was one of my best friends. And uh we had other young ladies that I acquainted myself with. And we had a group that was known as the Timothy and Club where those

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who win religion was a part of that club. Brother Hogan gave me the privilege to teach this Sunday uh evening Bible clash with the older members of the Church of Christ at Figueroa. I got a lot of experience from those people because that was a hard

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group. They had a lot of it. Uh questions that they would ask me in the Bible class while I was attending Pine and with my background as a minister of the church of Christ for a number of years, I got more experience working with that group

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at the Figure Old Church Prize uh before I became the minister of the 103rd street Church of Christ in Watts. Well, Doctor Lawton was with me as a fellow minister. I met him at the Figure Old Church of Christ when he came from Southwester Christian college.

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Brother Maxwell, also Maxwell stayed in my home that the church provided for me. And Maxwell was good at helping me prepare my messages to preach across the country along with Doctor Lawton, my good friend for over 50 years. But Lauren was a great preacher and brother

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Maxwell was also with me in Los Angeles for a while. And then he went to Mississippi and then he was called to work with Southwester Christian College for a number of years. Well, I lived in the, the part of Los Angeles not too far from the

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campus of Pepperdine University when I first came here. And after I got married, I lived in Los Angeles with my wife and three Children. And I was comfortable with the neighborhood that we lived in. The first house that I lived in was close to the 103rd

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street church of Christ. And I could drive to my ministry to the church. Close by the reason we call it uh the South side to a crisis because it was in the south side area when we left 103rd street and went and we were in a

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theater. It was called South Side theater. And we kept the south side name South Side. The challenge that I've always faced is bringing more souls to Christ in this area. And along with that, we organize the concerned citizen community involvement. We wanted to involve the whole

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community with programs that would help them. And every Saturday we feed several 100 people food from our pantry. We have been a church of the community for a number of years and we try to do things like building the senior housing facility that is in progress.

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Now, after the watch ride, we brought in like brother uh no young and also his staff and to preach, do I like people and the community on the problems that we was having in the community. And as a result of that, we brought many people to

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crash uh through our efforts of helping the community. Our church has been involved in the community ever since we were established. Even when we were in Watts, we fed a lot of people. Well, we tried to make some good, positive things in the community with our

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ministry. And as a result, some of the people who we fed uh in the watch area ters our progress in uh the South Side Treasure Prize, a number of people from the w area during a difficult time, they came over baptized and they remained, remained members

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before they passed away of the South side Church of Christ because of the work that we did in the Watts area. For a number of years, the restaurants disappeared when we had a lot of insurrection in the uh Los Angeles area, many of the owners of

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the businesses moved out because of the unrest. And as a result of that, Heine had difficulties in bring in uh people to their Los Angeles campus because of the unrest that was in the city. The churches of Christ tried to occupied the campus in Los Angeles.

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We had several preachers along with brother Kevin Bowers and brother uh pits they try to maintain uh because of the finance that was so great. We couldn't afford it. Aine L A campus. The utilities was too much for us to have. They thought that we would

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try to turn the Adine L A campus to a Southwester Christian College. But the board of directors uh declined because we couldn't afford it and couldn't allow our people to be in debt. So we gave up the idea of trying to maintain ourselves. Uh Faculty members

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were able to give me a space behind the boys d tore to carry on our ministry with the the community until we were able to move a ministry to the Church of Christ on Manchester Boulevard. And that lasted for a few years while we were on

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the L A campus before they moved to Malibu. We wanted to keep the L A campus. But as I said, we couldn't afford the even the utilities that were high. Uh a wealthy person gave them the opportunity to make their campus on uh Malibu. And um

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and as I said, it was mostly Caucasian people around the um Pepperdine L A campus. And when the, the people moved out and, and went to various uh the cities in the Los Angeles area, the people who were on the L A campus, uh people who

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were teachers and they couldn't afford to keep the L A campus along with the Malibu campus because the, the whole city had changed from black people mostly in the area. And so they decided since they had the opportunity go there. And so that's where they landed.

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Uh the Normandy church was a part of Figaro for a number of years, we had a wonderful relationship. Carol Pitts was a great teacher and as a result, the Wednesday Night Bible class would have close to 500 people with Calvin teaching one class of the whole,

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teaching another class and also rather pitch, teaching another class for the Cashews wanted to at brother pitch. It stabilize in California. Instead of me taking the space where Carol Pitts was, three congregations was established under Brother Cassius and brother Cash and put a lot of money

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into acquiring the facilities of the Normandy church of Christ. But he was preaching for the oldest church of Christ among the blacks in the city. When Brother Hogan decided to come to California. And as a result, he had a lot of influence over the older members

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of the the church was the price in Los Angeles. And when he came and he took a lot of members from the 9512 church of Christ and throw them over. Uh no at the church of Christ and then no, the church of Christ grew rapidly because

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the member from the figure old church of Christ came over to support Brother Pitt. The change. What was the the people who live in the area where Pepperdine was, they were faculty members of the Pine family. But when Pepperdine went to Malibu, whose families was replaced

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by the black people. And so that decline people living in the area where the Pepperdine had been so long that went through several changes that made us have to change our ministry just to black people. But to all people in the area as a result, we

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established the Spanish speaking a congregation and they're still meeting in our facilities until we finish the repair work. We hope to continue the ministry among the Spanish speaking people. And so uh on Manchester Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. I thank God that we have brother Ortiz,

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a Spanish ministry preacher. He's still bringing people to Christ. We're still supporting him and we hope that it will be enhanced with our building being repaired with more Spanish speaking people in the neighborhood. I'm just honored to be interviewed by UB and I hope that this

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will help somebody else to make a commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and be a part of the Church of Christ.