Alleged "hippies" claiming to do missionary work in Colorado. Believable?

My daughter’s acquaintance is getting married for the second time and he says his job will be doing “missionary work” with his bride in Colorado. They are asking, not for gifts but for people to “sow into the mission” meaning to give them money. His parents have a long history of setting up “charities” my daughter claims supplement their meager income. I have never heard of this behavior before and my daughter claims they just want to go up there and say, “God loves you” to the homeless and then smoke weed. Thoughts on gifts of money for the new couple?