...but not many people went.
There was Wednesday night prayer meeting, for those who needed to recharge their Jesus-Batteries midweek. IIRC, attended mostly by older people who felt they were getting closer to the Pearly Gates and needed all the credits they could get.
For boys, the church had the Royal Ambassadors. I was in that for a while. We had "sword drills." Get yer minds outta the gutter! The sword was a Bible, and the drills consisted of being the first to look up a Bible verse. Got boring pretty quick.
Witness rallies? Nope. We got all the witnessing we needed from the Bob Jones University students who roamed around annoying people as part of their curriculum. Even my devout Bap kinfolks thought the BJU crowd was goofy. They called that school "Jesus Tech."
Couple of years ago, the church I attended as a kid got a hustling young, new preacher who decided the place needed to be a megachurch.
He was stupid enough to brag that this would look good on his resume, and started a bunch of Fund Drives that just pissed people off.
Even stupider - he had a political tin ear. This is a small country church founded in 1857 and still largely controlled by descendants of the founders.
Several of those descendants had unpaid volunteer jobs in the church. That dumbass fired all of them and moved in some of his young cronies from the seminary. Who all got salaries.
The last straw, I think, was when he started pitching a "missionary trip." And what benighted, un-Xian Third World backwater was he and his buddies going to evangelize? London - yep, the one in the U.K.
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