Stainless Steel
04-24-2007, 08:41 AM
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070405/NEWS10/704050349
"CedarCreek Church Sucks" is his message displayed on a blood-red background at Talmadge and Monroe streets. Two more billboards are scheduled to go up tomorrow, Good Friday, saying, "I Was Robbed at CedarCreek" and "Boycott CedarCreek."
All three billboards will be "signed" by Satan and include a Web site address, www.SatanHatesCedarCreek.com.
"We want to shake the tree," said the Rev. Lee Powell, lead pastor at CedarCreek, which started the ads last week.
"We actually got the idea from a church in Oklahoma called LifeChurch," he said yesterday. "When we saw what they were doing, we immediately thought, 'That is so cool,' and we laughed. Then we said, 'There is very serious business behind this humor.'"
Mr. Powell said he received permission from LifeChurch to use the marketing strategy for CedarCreek, an independent "seeker-sensitive" church founded in October, 1975.
An interesting concept for a church promotion.
"CedarCreek Church Sucks" is his message displayed on a blood-red background at Talmadge and Monroe streets. Two more billboards are scheduled to go up tomorrow, Good Friday, saying, "I Was Robbed at CedarCreek" and "Boycott CedarCreek."
All three billboards will be "signed" by Satan and include a Web site address, www.SatanHatesCedarCreek.com.
"We want to shake the tree," said the Rev. Lee Powell, lead pastor at CedarCreek, which started the ads last week.
"We actually got the idea from a church in Oklahoma called LifeChurch," he said yesterday. "When we saw what they were doing, we immediately thought, 'That is so cool,' and we laughed. Then we said, 'There is very serious business behind this humor.'"
Mr. Powell said he received permission from LifeChurch to use the marketing strategy for CedarCreek, an independent "seeker-sensitive" church founded in October, 1975.
An interesting concept for a church promotion.