Be the church new Hispanic families meet first.
Every week new Hispanic families arrive in your city with no map. Give them a beautiful book in Spanish that helps them find their way, with your church's name on the cover and your pastor's welcome inside.
Ready now · Fort Myers edition available · new cities about 4 weeks
No family should have to figure out a new country alone.
A license, a lease, a school, a clinic, a tax form. New families want to do everything right and follow the law, but the answers are scattered, in another language, and too often learned from rumor or from people who take advantage of newcomers.
Bienvenidos gives them clear answers from official sources, in warm and simple Spanish. Your church is there on the cover and in the directory: the first church a family meets, on the day they need help.
Bienvenidos
A real 6×9 book with a full-color cover and black-and-white pages designed to be kept. Families open it again every time a new need comes up, and your church is there every time.
- 1Documents and what each one allows
- 2Driving: license, rules and fines
- 3Work, pay and taxes
- 4Banks and sending money home
- 5Renting a home and tenant rights
- 6Health care and emergencies
- 7Schools and education
- 8Buying a car and insurance
- 9Marriage, family and support
- 10Starting a business
- 11Safety, scams and your rights
- 12Local directory
Plus good news for a new life, your pastor's personal invitation, and a tear-out emergency card.
Your city's book, with your church on the cover.
Every edition is researched for your city and verified with official sources before it prints. Nothing with your church's name prints until you approve it.
- State laws on licenses, work, renting and schools
- Your county's offices, clinics, consulates and schools
- Hurricane, heat or winter safety for your region
- A directory of local services and Spanish-speaking churches
- Your pastor's letter and your church featured inside
- ESL classes and food pantries
- Welcome tables and visits
- Consulates and government offices
- Clinics and Hispanic sister churches
Choose how many families you want to reach
The outcome is families who know your church and come back to it. The book is already planned, customized for your city, presented by your church and placed through your outreach.
- "Un regalo de" your church, on the cover of every copy
- A welcome letter from your pastor, written with you
- Your church featured in the local directory
- Research and verification for your city
- Reorders at the same pack prices
Copies arrive about 4 weeks after you approve your cover and letter, in any city.
The Page-by-Page Promise
Nothing with your church's name prints until you have read and approved it.
The Delivery Promise
If your copies don't arrive within 30 days of your approval, you receive a full refund.
Payment
50% reserves your edition; the rest is due when you approve your cover and letter. It is a partnership: your families receive their books, and your church helps keep a missionary family in the field. Your church receives a receipt for every payment.
Before you begin
We don't have a Spanish ministry. Can we still give it?
Yes. The book speaks Spanish for you, and your letter can point families to someone who speaks their language. Many churches choose a Shared Edition with a Hispanic sister church.
Is it legal advice?
No. It explains how things work and where to go, from official sources, and points legal questions such as immigration to qualified help. It also warns families about fake notarios.
Is this available for our city?
Fort Myers is ready now. We are customizing Miami and Tampa next, then any US city: about 4 weeks after you approve your cover and letter.
Is the book free for the people who receive it?
Yes. Your church gives it as a gift. Readers never pay, never sign up and never share personal information to receive a copy.
Where does our church's payment go?
It covers the research, writing, printing and delivery of your books, and it also supports Sergio and Holly Alvarado's ministry in the field. Your church receives a receipt for every payment.
How much work is this for our church?
One short call, one approval of your cover and letter, and the joy of placing the books. We handle research, writing, design and printing.
Get the materials in your inbox
The sample chapter, the presentation for your team or board, and the packs and prices for Bienvenidos. We will follow up personally.
Custom books for churches
[email protected] · 239-355-6731
2701 Cleveland Ave, Suite 200, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Chapter & City is a ministry of Sergio and Holly Alvarado, missionaries who write and localize books that churches give to the people their city is welcoming. Every church that gives a Chapter & City book also partners with their ministry and helps keep them in the field.
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