Kansas Church’s Attendance Doubles After ‘Blessing’ Congregation With Firearms

A church near the Kansas-Missouri state line is raising eyebrows after “blessing” some of its members with guns for Father’s Day and the Fourth of July.

The River Church of Kansas City meets in Lenexa, Kansas just outside of Kansas City. It describes itself as a “spirit-filled church for the hungry, the thirsty and the broken” on its website.

Back in June, the church posted pictures to its Facebook page celebrating a member who won its raffle of an AR-15 rifle for Father’s Day — which can cost up to $1,200.

River Church had fewer than 100 members when it gave away the AR-15, but the Facebook post garnered almost 2,500 comments and close to 2,000 shares. . .

“Our attendance doubled after this whole thing happened,” Zehner said. “So I think people were looking at this like, ‘Wow, there’s somebody that stood up for our rights and freedoms and actually has a backbone.’” (Read more from “Kansas Church’s Attendance Doubles After ‘Blessing’ Congregation With Firearms” HERE)