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I was enjoying our vacation until Oregon lost to Oklahoma last night in the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl. Whatever happened to the normal bowl names?
That reminds me, I need to get some sponsors for the ‘ol blog. I’d even wear a nike swoosh pin on my lapel during my message on Sunday’s for a sponsorhip fee. All for a good cause! The proceeds would go to the “Send The Wray Children To College” foundation.
Many years ago song book publishers would sell advertising space in the last few pages of the hymnal. This was to offset the cost of publishing the book.
Here’s a few possible revenue generating ideas:
Today’s prayer is brought to you by NEXTEL.
Todays song service is brought to you by MEMOREX!
Today’s message is brought to you by NODOZE!
The Welch’s fruit of the vine and Matzo’s bread is way to obvious.
What other possible sponsorship ideas come to mind?
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“Today’s pot luck lunch is brought to you by Red, Hot & Blue, chili’s, and Wing Wah Chinee Foo”
When Frank Perdue was alive he met with Pope John Paul and offered him $10 million if the church would change the Lord’s Prayer to “Give us this day, our daily chicken.” Of course the pontiff balked at the suggestion. Frank said, “Come on Pope, I’ll make it $20 million. That sure would help a lot of starving children.” John Paul siad that he couldn’t allow it, so then Frank upped it to $25 million. The pope thanked Frank for his generous offer and excused himself. Later that day in his daily briefing with the executive cardinals, John Paul announced, “We need to renegotiate our Wonder bread contract.”
My “Florida Mafia” and I attended an Angels game the year after they won the World Series. So in honor of that team (and Steve) how about:
“This Worship Service is brought to you by the “Rally Monkey.” If you praise Him, he will come.”
usfsxowa (The University of South Florida at Sxowa)
We’ve actually been talking about this at College. For the past 7 weeks, we’ve had trouble with our projector. The first 6 weeks, it would suddenly show a huge “HITACHI” logo, usually during the sermon, once during the Christmas musical. (Tip: Don’t mention this to Sandra.) Last week I didn’t even prepare a PowerPoint.
It’s supposed to be fixed by Sunday, but just in case we are preparing a “This sermon brought to you by HITACHI! HITACHI, for all your sermon needs!” advertisement.
I’ll let you know.
Being in urban ministry, we have no problem with this kind of thing. We’ll take anyone’s money! Our summer program t-shirts, newsletters and fundraising videos often show a corporate logo. Okay, maybe we won’t advertise the local liquor store (who donated ice cream for our summer program finale one year) or strip club, but pretty much anything else is a go!
I threw a Ducks bowl party yesterday. They ruined my party.
How about Communion by Emeril … kick it up a notch!
There are some really good ideas on sponsorship on these comments. I can’t wait to put them into practice. Brought to you by ugkivo
Wife read your blog. Your comment about ads in the hymnals made her think of some of the hand held fans that ladies used to use in church, several decades ago. They had the local funeral home’s logo on them‚Ķ