No other place represented the solace, strength, and reassurance that one strived to seek when overcome with fear and feeling all was lost as this building of worship - the neighborhood church - giving hope and ease to all and any trouble that pained one's heart by entering its doors and feeling the over-riding spirit that ever seemed to prevail within its walls. Yet, as Louise Gore-Sayre David notes, neighborhood churches all across the nation suffer from the challenges of moral failure and the loss of traditional values. David offers a powerful voice calling in the wilderness for the local church to regain its position of hope and authority in a desperately spiritually needy world.