Vaguely disgruntled

I would have wished everyone well and made my excuses to leave it's sneaky and I wouldn't like that at all They didn't want your company or your friendship they wanted to recruit you Bad taste indeed

It doesn't sound as if they thought their religious views were shared by the invitees... why would they have shared what their religion meant to them?

It appears to be nothing other than a recruitment drive and a very deceitful one at that. All done by the good ladies of the church in a genteel way which, in my view, makes it worse.

Perhaps they thought you shared their faith/religious feelings? It should have been mentioned when you were invited though, as long as the aqaintance knew about it.
Still, you did say that you had a nice chatty time.

That's a bit sneaky-think I would feel taken advantage of, conned almost.

Something similar happened when we had a GN coffee meet up one particular seemed to be recruiting for some group or other can't even remember what it was but it wasn't well received by most people, she never returned as far as I know. I would feel as you do too.

I would have felt very annoyed and I'm afraid I would have got up and left once I realised what they planned to do to. I certainly would not have stayed to listen to what they had to say. I think it was a very underhand, deceitful way of behaving.

I would say stay 'ruffled' Eglantine19 it was a surreptitious way of reeling innocent people in on the pretext of a get together in order to push their own agenda , shamefuly decitful & all in the name of Christianity ! They surely should have been open about it !