This should also go onto the CTA Tattler

I was on the red line Friday morning and at either 79th or 69th street a street preacher walked on. He had  flyers (such as the one above) with him and started telling his story about how he was down and out on the L and eventually turned his life around and a ministry gave him some help and even sent him to bible college. That being said he proceeded to quote not only scripture, but also talk in tongues and was talking up a storm as the train headed downtown.

Eventually he announced to the car that he's got to go and suddenly the people on the train miraculously was offering dollars to this preacher as he performer like he was at a church service. For their donations many of these people are given either cookies or candy bars. Either they were into his preaching or they really wanted him to go. Unfortunately he didn't go away soon and continued to perform on the train talking to an elderly lady and loudly until he finally got off the train at Cermak.

Believe it or not, I caught up with JP Paulus (you know him by now I hope the original other blogger here) today downtown. And we talked about this flyer he raised the issue that there is a small possibility that this gentleman may not be apart of this organization and is raising money on his own. Well there is only one way to verify this and that's by making a phone call to this organization and asking if they have people on the CTA preaching and fundraising.

That being said, I didn't post this to "snitch". In fact on the Dan Ryan red line for the most part this is seen the most where people either beg, panhandle or even fundraise on the train. In fact Christian Outreach has often had people on the train fundraising so this is in fact nothing new. Indeed I was wondering if they still existed since I haven't seen their people express their message in some years.

The main reason why I post this is to say that if you find this to be a legit organization that can truly deliver people from whatever their issues are in life, then perhaps you should consider donating to them. Hopefully they won't have to fundraise and preach on the L in the future. If I understand policy in general this activity is generally not appropriate on the CTA.

Since this has become a long post expect a part 2, soon!