A question for church goers?

Question

The city I live in used to have a "cross busing" program to promote intergration in the school system. It ultimately failed...our city is still segregated among racial and class lines...

But what if there was a cross busing program for churches? For example a baptist church in a poor neighborhood traded a few members from a rich neighborhood and vice versa? Not just to bring a little extra money in for impoverished churches, but to help with the social networking aspect of it. The poor people would get to know people who have access to decent employers where they could get reccomendations...

Do you think the people in your church would go for it or would be afraid to participate?

I am not trying to bait you, you may have noticed im not a church person myself, but I have a lot of churchy friends/family in poor neighborhoods, and a lot of churchs in the neighborhood I live in ...which is a good neighborhood ...I was wondering if I should bother bringing up the idea ...

Answer 1

Not a bad idea. Some would not go for it, some would. I think it couldn't be forced, but in fact some people from middle class neighbourhoods travel to go to churches in poorer neighbourhoods. My two sons have taken interest in an inner city church.
In general I like the idea of a "local" church, so we can have an impact in our own neighbourhood, but I do like the idea of "cross pollination" (I don't know if that's the right word, but it's what the bees do! LOL)

Answer 2

I don't know why no one answerd this before. My guess is it wasn't seen. I just found it because of your new question!! I like your idea. I don't go to church, but I really do like this idea of yours. Pretty cool. Or maybe, having get togethers, picnics, things like that, for people to get together. Maybe even different religions. I like your idea. Try it out maybe. Let me know if you do.