Corporate Sponsorship for Churches

March 3, 2006 by

Doritos Cool Ranch Assembly of GodPut your pitchforks down, it’s just a spoof from a Lark News article, “Corporate Sponsorship a Boon to Church Budgets”:

“This [offer] couldn’t have come at a better time,” says Jacob Helsinki, pastor of Mach 4 Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, Wash. His church has sold much of the “visual space” in their facility to advertisers, including the bathroom stalls to Burger King, the rim of the collection plates to Hewlett-Packard and the backs of pews to JollyTime popcorn. “We were facing real cutbacks for our youth programs, and these companies were more than happy to step in and bridge the gap, financially speaking.” …

At the end of the Sunday morning service at Doritos Cool Ranch Assembly of God church in Tustin, Calif., the worship leader segues from an uplifting praise song into the latest McDonald’s jingle, “I’m loving it.” The congregation joins in tentatively, some laughing at the irony. By the end of the jingle, they’re singing heartily.

“We do our duty,” says one parishioner after the service. “It helps buy Sunday school materials.”

It’s especially timely considering the real news about prizes being offered to pastors who worked The Chronicles of Narnia into their sermons.

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9 Responses to “Corporate Sponsorship for Churches”

  • Pastor Lawrence Omari
    May 5, 2009

    would like my ministry to be financed for rural evangelism.these people are living in poverty endemic areas and after giving them the word we have to do more to help their situation but we can only do but a little.having read about you we kindly appeal for support to help these less endow precious souls,God Bless.


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  • Pastor Lawrence Omari
    May 5, 2009

    would like my ministry to be financed for rural evangelism.these people are living in poverty endemic areas and after giving them the word we have to do more to help their situation but we can only do but a little.having read about you we kindly appeal for support to help these less endow precious souls,God Bless.


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  • Pastor Lawrence Omari
    May 5, 2009

    would like my ministry to be financed for rural evangelism.these people are living in poverty endemic areas and after giving them the word we have to do more to help their situation but we can only do but a little.having read about you we kindly appeal for support to help these less endow precious souls,God Bless.


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  • Pastor Lawrence Omari
    May 5, 2009

    would like my ministry to be financed for rural evangelism.these people are living in poverty endemic areas and after giving them the word we have to do more to help their situation but we can only do but a little.having read about you we kindly appeal for support to help these less endow precious souls,God Bless.


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  • Pastor Lawrence Omari
    May 5, 2009

    would like my ministry to be financed for rural evangelism.these people are living in poverty endemic areas and after giving them the word we have to do more to help their situation but we can only do but a little.having read about you we kindly appeal for support to help these less endow precious souls,God Bless.


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  • Pastor Lawrence Omari
    May 5, 2009

    would like my ministry to be financed for rural evangelism.these people are living in poverty endemic areas and after giving them the word we have to do more to help their situation but we can only do but a little.having read about you we kindly appeal for support to help these less endow precious souls,God Bless.


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  • Pastor Lawrence Omari
    May 5, 2009

    would like my ministry to be financed for rural evangelism.these people are living in poverty endemic areas and after giving them the word we have to do more to help their situation but we can only do but a little.having read about you we kindly appeal for support to help these less endow precious souls,God Bless.


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  • kenneth wallace
    April 23, 2012

    Hello I am a deacon in training my pastor and I has just begun we have a new church that’s only 2 months old we have less than 20 members I am open to any advice that’s offered to continue a growth in Gods kingdom.


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  • Pastor Peter Okereke Jr
    October 12, 2012

    We are a young church in Evanston, Illinois in need for a TV Outreach sponsorship. We need the message of the Cross heard since the sinners are saved, sick healed, crimes reduced and the entire country and world at large blessed. Through our testimonies, we believe that the scripture is alive, able to change anyone that hears it divinely . We need your help now to jump start this crusade. God bless you for helping us.


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