"People go where they feel cared for."
That is so true. 

And people go where the resources are. One person flies across the globe first class to make millions in Tokyo, while another walks across a single border, to make a few thousand in a poultry plant. 

I sometimes recall that the renaissance, the grandeur and majesty of Europe, the Church's gilded cathedrals, were in significant measure financed by the expropriation of wealth from the Americas. 

Man may not live by bread alone, but that truth does not preclude the necessity of bread. 

In my neighborhood, the churches that thrive most visibly (Catholic, Baptist, Muslim, Apostolic) are those with active social justice missions, and ministries that are at least somewhat able to serve the material, as well as spiritual,  needs of their congregations and neighborhoods. 

"People go where they feel cared for."  I so appreciate the clear anthropological understanding of  that observation.