Courtney Wingo initially had concerns when she learned her daughter’s student ministry at Leatherwood Baptist Church in Alabama was planning a three-day service trip to Houston.
She didn’t want her 12-year-old daughter, Kamryn, in a potentially dangerous situation. The church’s youth ministries director, Mike Webb, assured her it would be fine: the group was just going to a food bank, she recounted.
As the trip was underway, Wingo learned from several hundreds of miles away through a Facebook post that the group had spent part of its second day visiting a “tent city” in Houston to have gospel conversations with people who are homeless. Wingo saw the post had received dozens of positive reactions, so she added the only angry one…