Since the WWI era, Mexicans have comprised the majority of farmworkers in the U.S. My manuscript, Fields of Faith, details how Mexican Pentecostals farmworkers carved out a social and religious existence in California’s notoriously oppressive system of industrial agriculture. I show how from the 1930s (the arrival and widespread documentation of displaced Okie laborers in the state) to the late 1960s (the international rise of the United Farm Workers) the network of Mexican Pentecostal congregations grew concomitantly with the cultivation of intensive-labor crops in the valleys of northern Mexico and the U.S., and that even in the face of xenophobic laws in the 1930s and 1950s, their network of churches thrived across borders. Contrary to the photographic records of government agencies (Farm Security Administration and Office of Wartime Information) which generally portrayed Mexican migrant workers as culturally vacuous and lacking in artistic genius, the photographs in the possession of interviewees articulated a narrative of family groups and dynamic cultures of artistic production (e.g., sacred handmade embroideries, composition of hymns, the sale of tamales to raise funds, and baptismal rituals in the grower-controlled canals and rivers); I read these acts of survival as forms of power among socio-economically dominated laborers.