We're open to site visits and inspection of files at any moment. But the more active you are, the more these people come running to you with grant proposals. At the newspapers, he also helped find summer jobs for teenagers, and at Young Memorial Church he has made youth a special focus. A church in McLean, Va., a Washington suburb, helped buy a huge tent Mr. Chambers erects every spring when warm weather settles in. Slowly, more than 200 young men, nearly all with drug problems, start camping out there, eating the food from the Catholics and dressing in the clothes donated by Episcopalians.
Drug counseling comes later, and prayer is voluntary.
Our character demonstrates who we are and besides, a lot of people have eaten at our table, worn our clothes, spent our money and never found Christ. Last month 12 of his young adults did find jobs through the Samaritan center at his parish house. Some of the prostitutes and drug dealers who sought his help have since relapsed. But he does not know if his congregation of 250 people could support another partnership program. But once you get into working with the government you get into a kind of bureaucratic hell.