Since 2017, a group of 12 local people have passed out pamphlets to staff, students, and faculty of 19 schools in the surrounding area, including Grayslake North, Grayslake Central, Evanston High School, and two junior highs. These pamphlets are distributed by an organization called Answers In Genesis. Answers In Genesis is a “young earth creationist group,” which are organizations that believe the Earth was created in six days, 6,000–10,000 years ago. The group has distributed pamphlets to students and staff, titled “Was There Really A Noah’s Ark and Flood?” and “From Creation to Bethlehem.”

The creator and CEO of Answers In Genesis is Australian evangelist Ken Ham. In addition to Answers in Genesis, he created the Ark Encounter, an interactive, 3-story museum that depicts the tale of Noah’s Ark, located in Kentucky. Answers in Genesis is staunchly anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion

and has an anti-evolution view. On their website, Answers in Genesis says that “God made the dinosaurs, along with the other land animals, on Day 6 of the Creation Week (Genesis 1:20–25, 31).”

One of the members of this group, Ralph Davis, served in Vietnam and spent ten years teaching in a public school. He also was a school board member while simultaneously being Round Lake Beach’s mayor for four years. When approached on the sidewalk outside of Grayslake Central handing out pamphlets, Davis said his and his group’s main goals were “want[ing] kids to know there is a God, that he is the creator, and [to] trust the Bible from the very first verse.”