"Obey Jesus or perish!" declared one sign that Michael Woroniecki, his wife and their six children carried as they preached and handed out pamphlets across campus earlier today.
The Woroniecki family lives out of their R.V. and has visited Penn State multiple times during their cross-country preaching travels.
Nathan Jones (senior-biochemistry and molecular biology) met the family on one of their previous trips and was out to protest their return to campus. Jones said that two years ago, Woroniecki referred to him as a "fag" while preaching.
In flyers Jones distributed, he claimed that Michael Woroniecki's messages had influenced Andrea Yates, a mother who was recently in the news for murdering her own children and had driven others to attempt suicide. Jones also said that Woroniecki repeatedly changed his name, creating aliases.
Student reaction to the preachers was strong. Many passerbys screamed "shut up" and "I already love Jesus!" at the family. Others stopped to talk with them and pick up pamphlets. Some students even paused while going by to take pictures of the demonstration on their camera phones.
"I think it's kind of extreme, and it is not doing what they want it to do," Maura Gillies (freshman-math) said. "It's turning people away."
Woroniecki said he encounters opposition at many campuses but continues to preach in hopes that he will bring people to Jesus.
"We tell people they are going to hell and they don't like it," he said.

