An atheist student has taken steps to have a church’s youth director banned from her school because she was offended he was talking about Jesus with students at her lunch table at Salem, Oregon’s Straub Middle School.

The student claims she has no issues with Christianity and that the church director made nasty comments to her, but witnesses say that Shelby Conway is not telling the truth.

The director, Tim Saffeels, says that he only sat at the table of Conway because a member of his church’s ministry.  He said that some of the other kids at the table brought up the issue of Christianity and that he did not insult or berate anyone at the table.

Saffeels has been visiting schools for three years until the campaign by Shelby Conway to have him banned.

“I didn’t say at all any of the comments concerning atheists are evil, that their opinions are illogical,” Saffeels said. “In no way, at that moment, did there seem to be any issue concerning a confrontation or anything like that. The first time that I saw that there was an issue was when I received a call from the principal.”

He said that he doesn’t go into the schools to preach but rather to build relationships with the students who are already part of their ministry.