Last year two cases of deaths and missing persons were from church groups - the stupid kids who went over Vernal Falls and a guy that got separated from his group up at Yosemite Falls, never to be found. Although well meaning, it is my experience that church groups are a bit clueless about wilderness safety. I wonder if it is thier overzealous belief that all you have to do is "have faith" or it is all "god's will" and become very passive when action is what is needed. I was raised in a church that told us "god helps those who help themselves"!