Texas Church Cards People Who Patronize Adult Stores
Is it evangelism or is it blackmail? Mixed reactions abound with a Texas pastor’s tactics for inviting neighborhood visitors to church.
bq.. KENNEDALE, Texas — It’s 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon, and inside a windowless adult video store a dozen people are perusing XXX-rated movie titles. Pastor Jim Norwood surmises this because he has photographed the customers’ cars in the parking lot, carefully adjusting his digital camera so that each license plate is in focus.
Each car owner will soon get a postcard in the mail from Norwood’s Oakcrest Family Church. On the front will be a color photo of their vehicle in the video store parking lot. On the back will be a note: “Observed you in the neighborhood. Didn’t know if you were aware there is a church in the area … please stop by next time. We’d love to have you visit.”
Norwood, 56, who says he is a reformed drug abuser on a mission to rid the town of sexually oriented businesses, calls the postcards an “invitation to church.”
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MSG For Pastor Jim Norwood
Just wanted to put my 2 cents in
I rarely go to those places myself but i think you’ve got a good idea to get peoples attention.
So keep it up
If it gets more people into your church. Great.
If they dont want their car photographed in that parking lot then they should walk from another parking lot