Christmas
ChurchAds has produced a slogan and poster for 2009. This year they are looking for Churches to sponsor the campaign: the idea is that Churches are invited to give £100, and in return they will see the posters on a Bus Shelters near you.
You can get involved with the campaign in two key ways…
Buy a bus stop
– Posters on bus shelters will display a painting by the renowned
artist, Andrew Gadd, in which he depicts the nativity scene in a modern
day equivalent of a stable – a bus shelter. Buy a bus stop here!Buy radio
– Our radio adverts cleverly and light-heartedly set the nativity in
the context of a soccer match, a horse race, a police car chase and
even the Christmas pop chart countdown. Find out how to organize a
radio campaign in your area here!Church leaders across the denominations have welcomed the campaign and are urging churches to get involved.
Nick Baines, Bishop of Croydon, says: "This year's atheist bus adverts
backfired (for the atheists) by putting God on the public agenda and
provoking people to ask if he is there. Well, Christians now have a
chance to say a firm and confident 'Yes, and he looks like Jesus!
Christmas is his festival.'"
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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