Recognition for Louisiana work

In recognition for his Katrina recovery work, Bishop Charles Jenkins is ifeatured in the September Readers Digest.  It's a tribute to his work and the work of the Diocese of Louisiana and Episcopalians everywhere.

Readers Digest
The Heroes Rebuilding New Orleans

What is the future here? What are the bright spots? To find answers, I sought people immersed in the hard work of recovery.

Charles Jenkins, the Episcopal bishop of New Orleans, has a flock with many affluent members. He and his wife escaped Katrina at the home of friends in Baton Rouge.

Watching TV coverage of the scene inside the Convention Center, he saw a black woman holding a sign: "I am an American too." He went onto the patio alone as helicopters streamed across the sky. "I was near despair, thinking I did not have what it takes to respond to the human need in my city," he says. "I began crying."

Then he told himself, My job is to make the comfortable aware of the powerless. Jenkins started working the phones with national church leaders, seeking money for the worst -- hit areas.

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