This is, after all, New Orleans where good days are hard to find and where America's worst natural disaster is barely a year old. A number of Episcopal churches are still digging out from heavy water inundation; tens of thousands of homes are being rehabilitated, half the population has still not returned and government bureaucracy ties up progress and sin in the streets, runs rampant.

"Those who are the harshest critics of the leadership of the Church might well ponder the first chapter of Paul's letter to the Romans in its entirety. Paul's concern to show the need that all have for new life in Jesus Christ brings an indictment of sin that includes each of us. Yes, Paul condemns the hot sins of the flesh as the outgrowth of idolatry, but he condemns no less the cold sins of the human spirit: gossip, slander, those who are heartless and ruthless.

He had been a senior executive in the insurance business for many years before coming under the ministry of the evangelical charismatic preacher Terry Fullam in Connecticut where he received the fullness of the Holy Spirit and began his own ministry of evangelism.

All his family of children, grand children and great grand children are believers.

In describing the new church's ecclesiology, The Rev. Dr. Robert Sanders said this: "We will be a church thoroughly grounded in the historic Anglican tradition with its commitment to balancing the Sacramental, Evangelical, and Charismatic streams in the Christian faith. We are applying to be a part of the world wide Anglican Communion through affiliation with the Anglican Mission in America which is a missionary extension of the Anglican Communion province of Rwanda.