The Methodist churches, we're organized in circuits.

There have been many Methodist churches that have closed in the core, and we believe there is still valid ministry to be done. It just needs to be reinvented, ... We believe God is not done with Methodism in the inner city.

If volunteers come, they will need a place for them.

Baton Rouge had a population of 400,000; now it has a population of 800,000, with one-half needing to take care of the other half.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

We were quite confident, but on new circuits you really never know how it's going to be in qualifying because here it's quite dusty.