Church Marketing Sucks

A Memphis pastor had to bust out the pepper spray when a church house brawl between kids carried over to the church bus Wednesday night.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that using pepper spray on children is not a good marketing move. That goes without saying, and the article gives very few details about what actually happened so we probably shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

But it’s fair to say that having to use pepper spray to stop a fight and sending 23 kids ages 5 to 15 and one 30-year-old to the hospital is indicitive of not enough help. Every church event needs to have enough volunteers to safely handle the number of people. It’d be smart to establish ratios and if you can’t meet those ratios, cancel the event. Nothing encourages volunteers like canceling events. And nothing discourages visitors like pepper spraying their children.