[Pearls Before Swine]

I’m sorry, I don’t approve. It sounds a bit predatory to me to target young children for programming of belief at a public venue like a swimming pool.

[GeronL]

They have to compete directly with the pedophiles.

[wbarmy]

Just because a reporter and an atheist group says this groups tactics are predatory, doesn’t mean they are. It means the reporter wants a knee jerk reaction from people reading the article and they got just what they wanted.

Groups have been doing this for years by inviting these kids to church functions or to Vacation Bible Schools. Sometimes they get the children to come, sometimes not. The real target is to get the parents to come to church to see their children do a skit or a play, or sing a song as a group, then the Pastor preaches to the visitors. That is the reality.

[stars & stripes forever]

“I’m sorry, I don’t approve.”

Good News Clubs were the norm not that many years ago...

http://www.cefonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=13&Itemid=100049

[showme_the_Glory]

Mom and Dad should already be leading them. Speaking of God, Jesus, and spiritual things is not targeting or programming.

[ifinnegan]

You actually believe the stuff coming from the “alternative” paper?

This is meant as pure hate mongering propaganda and you fell for it.

[onedoug]

Seems downright creepy to me.

[righttackle44]

I’m sorry, I don’t approve. . . .

Dear Mr. Swine:

I think the fact that you don't approve puts you in the same category Protect Portland Children and their apparent ignorance of Christians and Christianity. Their claim that Child Evangelism Fellow is not mainstream Christianity, but is old school fundamentalism encourages me that someone--not the doddering old fools of mainstream Christianity--is bringing the Good News message to children who are growing up in a hotbed of rebellious liberalism.

And, by the way, many throughout history AND prophecy have not approved of the message that Christ died on the cross, shed His blood, and rose again so that men and women can be saved OUT of their sin and FROM eternal consequences to a New Life in Christ.

Many who have not approved are replete in history with ties to cruelty, mass executions, crucifixion, torture, suppression of religious freedom, imprisonment, destruction of the family, and slaughter.

They are those who also would not or do not approve of the saving Message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

[Salvation]

**I don’t approve.**

Neither do I. If I had found someone doing this to my children they would have gotten a tongue lashing.

A JW tried to give one of my daughters a book. I wrote “No thanks, and don’t do this at school.” and took it in to the principal.

I don’t know what happened after that, but I was irate.

[daniel1212]

I’m sorry, I don’t approve. It sounds a bit predatory to me to target young children for programming of belief at a public venue like a swimming pool.

That is just what the devil wants and you are dead wrong. Of course it sounds predatory, as the real predators are those like mercurynews.com which favor the MSM indoctrination on such things as "gay rights," ("Mercury News editorial: Supreme Court should declare gay marriage legal;" "Opinion: Supreme Court justices didn't go far enough on Prop. 8," "Elton John says Jesus would support gay marriage," "Why is job discrimination the last piece of the gay-rights puzzle?"...)

That just do not want completion, and if they had their way then every "Bible clubs" and even raising children up in Christian faith would be outlawed, while today's kids are the most Biblically ignorant and morally confused generation America has ever raised, and very few parents raise up their kids in Scriptural evangelical Christian faith.

God has no grandchildren, and at any gven time the church is one generation away from extinction. Evangelical outreach to kids at apartment pools, public parks and dozens of other gathering spots is part of just what this country and world needs, and is that is being "predatory" then you can leave them to the devil, who "as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" (1 Peter 5:8)

Anyone who opposes the public evangelization of the young by those who are presenting the simple basic gospel message, not trying to rope them into a particular elitist church (or have other plans), are siding with the devil.

If that seems too strong, then wait till you see what happens when with those who do not find Christ.

Instead, get a tract like "How to get to Heaven," and "target" kids yourself with them, handing them out with grace wherever you go, along with adult ones: http://www.fellowshiptractleague.org/english.html .

[9YearLurker]

I agree.

I don’t think members of this sect would appreciate, say, Muslim outreach to their five-year-old children.