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Born in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Paul Nagano was in his senior year at Chapman University when he was incarcerated at Poston Internment Camp in Arizona. Despite his lack of ministerial training, he was assigned as a Nisei pastor by the Ecumenical Ministerial Council and, with support of Ralph Mayberry, was ordained in February, 1943. He left Poston that fall to pursue seminary training at Bethel Theological Seminary in Minnesota. His education was again cut short when he returned to Los Angeles two months before graduation in 1945 to minister to the returning Japanese people. There, he pastored Nisei Baptist Church which later became Evergreen Baptist Church. Active in both denominational and ecumenical ministries, Nagano was instrumental in the founding of the Asian American Baptist Caucus (now the Alliance of Asian American Baptist Churches) and the Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society where he served as the first executive secretary.
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Born in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Paul Nagano was in his senior year at Chapman University when he was incarcerated at Poston Internment Camp in Arizona. Despite his lack of ministerial training, he was assigned as a Nisei pastor by the Ecumenical Ministerial Council and, with support of Ralph Mayberry, was ordained in February, 1943. He left Poston that fall to pursue seminary training at Bethel Theological Seminary in Minnesota. His education was again cut short when he returned to Los Angeles two months before graduation in 1945 to minister to the returning Japanese people. There, he pastored Nisei Baptist Church which later became Evergreen Baptist Church. Active in both denominational and ecumenical ministries, Nagano was instrumental in the founding of the Asian American Baptist Caucus (now the Alliance of Asian American Baptist Churches) and the Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society where he served as the first executive secretary.