He determined that it was the Father’s will to lead those in the Outskirts to Bethel, that they might continue the process of their sanctification through service to the Church. And so, at Abdiah’s bidding, for the first time in its centuries-long history, Bethel opened its gate to outsiders. To prevent what Abdiah called the spread of fallacies, Outskirters were contained to a settlement on the southern cusp of Bethel. There, servants of the Church ministered to them—spreading the word of the Father, turning heathen to believer one soul at a time in what was later called the Great Evangelism.
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When black people are brought into Bethel, they are:
-Made to live in a desiganted, separate part of the city.
-People are taught to associate them with danger, and that their skin color is indicative of evil
-The people of Bethel are evagelizing and trying to convert these people to their faith and way of life - their goal is to assimilate these people and that is considered a "holy" endeavour - they are "saving" these peope
- and their assimilation is painted as "contrition" a penance for the sin of being associated with the mother
