Rev. Colin Maxwell, minister of Cork Free Presbyterian Church in Cork city, Republic of Ireland, stands outside a recent St. Patricks Day Parade giving a gospel witness to passersby. Maxwell has just launched a gospel advert campaign in newspapers across the whole of Ireland.
Cork Congregation Begins Ambitious Advert Campaign
DUBLIN--The Free Presbyterian congregation in Cork, Ireland, recently undertook an ambitious gospel advertisement campaign in several newspapers throughout the Republic of Ireland, hoping to reach the unsaved .
The churches' campaign started on a small scale back in June of 2006 with a classified advert in the Personal section of Cork's local Evening Echo, said Rev. Colin Maxwell, minister of the small Free Presbyterian congregation. But through the help of brethren in Northern Ireland they were able to expand their outreach to the whole of the island.
In April of 2007 Ballymena Free Presbyterian Church underwrote Maxwell's venture placing more gospel advertisements in two national papers taking the outreach from a handful of readers to over one million.
The three-line advert gives a short gospel text followed by a hotline phone number for those seeking spiritual help, said Maxwell.
Their first venture brought quite a shock when Maxwell's verse seemed to slam a competing advert from a sodomite group. The sodomite advert read, "Gay Contact," followed by Maxwell's quotation of Job 22:3, "Is not thy wickedness great?"
Rev. Maxwell said that the church has not had any visible response from the campaign yet, but with such a large circulation, people are bound to be reading.
The ads are to appear six nights per week for a three month period in the Irish Independent, and the Dublin Evening Herald.
