  urlLink Southern Baptists Bring New York Their Gospel : "The campaign began with Chicago in 2000 and moved on to Phoenix, Boston, Las Vegas and Miami.
Now New York will be the site of its biggest push yet. Southern Baptist missionaries began meeting with local church officials two years ago to lay the groundwork for the campaign's official kickoff this year. The denomination is sending at least several hundred volunteers and is spending several million dollars to support the effort, Dr. Reccord said. But New York may also present the ultimate test of the Southern Baptists' evangelism. To many evangelical Christians and more than a few New Yorkers themselves, the city occupies a special place as something close to an American Babylon, perhaps the least Christian and most secular metropolis in the country. 'I don't know if I thought of it as Sin City, but I knew it wasn't the closest place to God,' Mr. Rourk said, diplomatically. " 
