KATY, TX - Sizing up the landscape of today's America as "increasingly post-Christian," local youth pastor Schuyler Dawson prepared his teen flock for this hostile environment with a serious, in-depth study of taking a pie to the face.

Looking at Psalm 105:4 ("Seek His face continually"), Dawson lit upon the idea of entertaining his flagging audience with a new chapter in his ever-escalating attempts to capture and hold their attention for a moment. Seeing the word "face" in the text, Dawson's preparatory time of free association led him to the idea of taking a whipped cream pie to the face. Although unable to reconcile it with any actual exegetical point, Dawson feels it was still a worthwhile endeavor.

"Studies show a majority of children simply leave the church after graduation or in

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