Several times a week, a group of six women and one man pray for their city as they drive through their gang-infested neighborhood in New Orleans.

Millie Campbell, 76, and Betty Minor, 69, are a part of the group who has been blessing the city for the past six weeks. As Campbell drives with Minor in her blue Chevrolet through the 7th Ward, Campbell says: Oh, God, we thank you for the blood of Jesus. Touch this block in the name of Jesus.

When Minor isn’t punctuating Campbell’s prayers with a number of “Hallelujahs” and “Glorys,” she adds: Cover your children, Father God. In the name of Jesus.

A number of clergy, organizations, and youth ministries are all involved in the effort to stem the murder and mayhem that continues day by day in New Orleans, this small group believes that when a situation becomes too heavy to bear, one must take it to the Lord.