Chapter NineA Place to Pray had begun focusing its efforts on the Princess Search, which served well to ameliorate tensions between Shannon Blackburn and the new Belfast UDA godfather, Delmore Merrick. The new boss was in a benevolent mood after having been released from custody and was reserved though receptive to her overtures. She asked for a sizable donation in expanding the Church facility to provide for the new mission and he reluctantly complied. Although the Church remained open for prayer, they had no one to replace Deryl at the pulpit. Shannon considered that in changing the Church's grand strategy.
The Church continued to draw visitors from both neighborhoods, and the loyalist community could not censure the effort lest it be seen as conspiring to derail the peace talks. The UD
