A Christian organization won’t be allowed to continue proselytizing students during lunch hours at schools in the Baldwin County School District in Georgia after FFRF got involved.
FFRF was informed that members of Young Life, a religious organization whose mission involves “introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith,” had been permitted to attend lunches at Oak Middle School and Baldwin High School. During the lunches, members of the group would befriend students and recruit them for club meetings. These were “WyldLife” meetings, a group with the goal of converting students to Christianity.
FFRF Legal Fellow Madeline Ziegler wrote to Baldwin County School District Superintendent Noris Price on Nov. 23, 2016, to voice FFRF’s objection to the unique access the Christian ministers were given to evangelize students during the school day on school property.
On Feb. 16, the district’s attorney office responded to inform FFRF that the school district administration had talked to the members of Young Life, who had been voluntarily tutoring students, to tell them they are not to discuss religion during tutoring sessions.
