41.   A network of local churches and charities is trying to help out.

42.   A van driver for a local church, Gonzales had been looking for an apartment for four years while living with his sister here.

43.   About a dozen local churches, as well as the Royal Canadian Legion and the Knights of Columbus, set up cots in their halls and basements.

44.   After the local church, the next rung of the hierarchy for women is the district level, then the conference level.

45.   Agents have presented programs to Scout groups and attended local churches.

46.   Bush already had been a regular at the local Methodist church, a Sunday school teacher, and active in charitable causes.

47.   But many of them have turned to local churches for help with everything from housing to jobs.

48.   But many women from the area, he added, are ambivalent about attending, largely because most local churches were not involved in the planning.

49.   By contrast, United Methodist membership numbers are credible, because local churches pay apportionments to the national denomination based on size.

50.   Chase and seven other grandmothers volunteered to baby-sit for free each Thursday morning at a local church.