I just had to make a comment here, unfortunately it doesn’t answer your question. However this is important to me.
In my county the vast majority of children reside in homes that one or more members receive ‘assistance’ of one sort or another. Our school board recognizes that and tries to help out where it can.
Earlier this week there was a going back to school event where they hand out school supplies, back packs things like that, there was also a mobile dental clinic that was there for the kids.
My granddaughter wanted to go so she could see some of her friends from school. So I took her. The line was huge it snaked out the entrance to the building for almost the length of a football field.
That’s not what bothered me the most, what bothered me was that a local church had a sound truck and a flatbed trailer and a ‘preacher’ was blasting the people with a speaker system I heard from almost a mile away. “Hellfire, Damnation, Hold your hands up for Jesus and Be Saved, etc”
I got a headache almost immediately from the volume of the PA system and we didn’t get closer than 100 hundred yards before My Granddaughter and I turned around and left.
I found out later that the ‘church’ had donated a large amount of the items that were going to the kids, School Supplies that is. And as their ‘price’ they were allowed to preach the gospel outside the building.
There are appropriate venues for this and also inappropriate ones too. To my mind this was inappropriate, not because of the message, Free speech, etc. but the manner it was presented in and the venue it was at. It was almost like they were hijacking the event and knew they had a quasi-captive audience.
Well... anyway, thank you for letting me vent.
It would seem that that kind of preaching would turn more people off than it would bring in.