Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
Albertina “Tina” Batiste,was sitting in an Atlanta hotel before Thanksgiving with no real prospects for the future when the phone call came.
Batiste and her family had lost their home in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina and her efforts to find new lodgings had not produced anything.
“I said, ‘I’m giving up,'” recalled Batiste, 50. “‘I’m not looking. I’m just looking to God.'”
That day she got a call…