It's often easier to preach the virtues of abstinence until marriage, rather than the use of condoms. The pulpit must be sensitive to all people. There is correction, there's reproof and there is grace for those in captivity, whatever physical habit they may have. After Sunday school, congregant Vivian Fielder spoke glowingly of Lewis' plain-spoken approach. Fielder, retired from University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and now a volunteer in patient registration, remembers when the center treated the first scattered AIDS cases.
Some people hide because they think it's just a gay disease.
Little children now have it. Pastor Lewis just says it like it is. The B.L.O.C.K. operates out of a building at 4310 Mallow in Sunnyside, an incongruously named neighborhood bounded by Texas 288, Martin Luther King, Old Spanish Trail and Almeda-Genoa. In one way, it resembles a relaxed, rural town. Cows and horses graze in vacant lots.