describe his experience of planting a church in downtown New Orleans. The downtown church had only two intact families. The struggling congregation of forty people was facing the likelihood that fifteen of them would move away because they wanted to get out of the troubled city. Alcoholism is rampant in the community (he said that nursery school parties for his children have been hosted with kegs of beer available for adult attendees). The stranglehold of poverty grips generations. Corruption remains
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