My paternal Grandfather died standing on a street corner in Oakland, handing out tracts, as he had done every day of his retired life.
He had founded the first six pentecostal churches in the East Bay Area in his younger days.
Of blessed memory. Spurgeon Moody, and others used them. http://www.peacebyjesus.net/howtousetracts-torrey.html
But tis very very rare in NE. Yet the cults knows how to spread their message.