Yep. In God, all things are possible.
As a New Yorker, I can tell you that generally the city is a great place. It is way too liberal, but I usually try to think of that as an unfortunate downside, rather than the whole picture. I say any place that has Central Park, The Metropolitan, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Bronx Zoo, etcetera can't be all bad.
New York used to be a crime-ridden cesspool, but it's improved tremendously over the past decade or so. That's mainly on account of Rudy Giuliani. Yes, he's a social liberal (that's what made him electable here) and I wouldn't really want him in power in the federal government, but he was great as mayor.
Hopefully, as time goes on, the Big Apple will evolve away from the left-wing ideology. Oddly, growing up here, I never really thought of it as "liberal", not the way I think of, say, LA of Frisco as liberal. This isn't a place in which liberal ideas are generated or even really expounded upon; they are just accepted with an cynical inertness. Maybe that will change one day. To me, a conservative NYC would be nothing sort of a paradise.
Churches have always played a role in poor neighborhoods. In East New York, they have actually built some housing, etc. And for the record, most people in Manhattan believe East New York is somewhere in Jersey.
Amen! NYC is sometimes more of a pleasure than the suburbs.
Redeemer rocks. Join us when you're next in NYC.
One of the pastors mentioned in this article, A.R. Bernard, was a guest on Laura Ingraham's show last week. Sounded pretty conservative, and either said he supported the President, or strongly implied it.