st. louis, as to where you would be assigned. you'd be assigned, literally, anywhere in the world. but i told -- you could state a preference, so i gave that preference for inner city work, et cetera. and the director of personnel had a -- a little map of the world about -- maybe one-and-a-half inch by one-and-a-half inch. and he says, "well, as you can see, richard, it's not really in new york city" -- because i'd said, in the best of all possible worlds, i'd want to be in the inner city of new york. he says, "it's not really in new york city, but it's very close." well, it was up on the st. lawrence river, about 400 miles away. and i -- i -- it was a grand time in messina, new york. i was there for a little less than a year. and then it happened that in brooklyn, in the williamsburg-bedford-stuyvesant section of brooklyn, this parish was -- had gone vacant. that is, it had no pastor. it was an old, big, 19th-century german lutheran congregation. the neighborhood had dramatically changed, primarily african-american and hispanic, the typical white flight out to the suburbs. so here was this shell of an old church which -- the lutheran church wanted to close this church beca