I have never, anywhere else I've lived in the US, overheard more conversations between young men trying to get into church youth leadership, or how to contribut

I have never, anywhere else I've lived in the US, overheard more conversations between young men trying to get into church youth leadership, or how to contribute back to the church, or who are promising people to proselytize to, or who is "straying" and how to fix that, or confessing their weaknesses to each other, than I have eating out in South Bay restaurants. As in, as recently as last Friday, I spent an entire dinner night out eating steamed dumplings and overhearing this exact conversation. I've heard it in restaurants and I've heard it in cafes and I've heard it from people just chatting outside. Discussing their admiration for their pastor, or comparing notes about the churches their friends attend. I can easily expect to overhear a "church conversation" by just going to a social place on any given day. It must be some kind of little-known secret that South Bay is really, really churchy.