The church’s youth pastor, Bob Ross, said it’s a way of trying to encourage young people to attend the event. The church expected hundreds of teenagers from as far away as Canada.

I was seriously expecting, hoping, that the link would take me to the onion…but this is a real honest promotion.

Church marketing MUST be about more than getting butts in the seat, it’s about more than a gimmick or attracting attention…it MUST be about life change. Go ahead and give your iPods away, serve free coffee and donuts, but be about more than the number of people that walk through your doors. Be about the number of lives that are shaped and molded by God.

And for the love of all of sanity…use your head. When you as a church do something like this, you cast a cloud over many churches.

Maybe they could start and let a guy get married…that’s got to be a pretty big hurdle to get over.

Good luck guys, but I think it’s gonna take more than a calendar.