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The Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith (film)
- Films and Video
- Grades 9-12, Adult
- Documentary
- Importance of community, Role of Religion – virtue or hypocrisy
- Available
Documentary film about this history of the Buena Vista United Methodist Church , a Japanese American church in Alameda, California , on its 100th anniversary. Using family photographs, home movies and other sources, the film takes us through the church's history in ten and twenty year intervals, highlighting its founding and early growth through the Issei era, the impact of wartime incarceration, and its evolution in the postwar period.