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Christian ‘branding agency’ seeks $1 million for ‘McMass’ project to put McDonald’s in churches
Scott Kaufman | 28 Nov 2014 at 12:45 ET


A design firm committed to using “cutting edge communication technology to empower the 21st century church” started a new project, “McMass,” in which it aims to reinvigorate the flock by opening McDonald’s franchises in churches.

Lux Dei Design, “a church branding agency,” is attempting to confront what it calls the “vacant church problem” — the fact that in addition to declining attendance for services, many churches are empty and entirely unused on days on which there are no services.

“We realized,” they wrote in a statement on the McMass website, “that a design approach — an entrepreneurial approach — had the potential to revolutionize how churches engage with the world. We want to see churches return to the center of everyday life, and the way to engage with our modern culture is through innovation.”

“Churches are community centers, but need to attract people and support themselves financially,” and “McDonald’s are profitable, and draw constant crowds, but need great, centrally-located spaces,” so together, Lux Dei Design contends, “a McDonald’s Church will support itself and become increasingly active in its community.”

Increased activity does not come cheaply, however, as the group’s IndieGoGo fundraiser indicates that that they will need at least $1 million to launch a pilot McDonald’s Church.

“These funds,” Lux Dei assures potential donors, “go primarily towards purchasing a franchise, with twenty percent devoted to construction, and establishing the necessary infrastructure within and around the church.”

As for the location of the first McDonald’s church, Lux Dei is still searching for “a suitable partner church to work with.”

Watch McMass’s IndieGoGo promotional video below. [Video accessible via the end link]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/christian-branding-agency-seeks-1-million-for-mcmass-project-to-put-mcdonalds-in-churches/

...or McAss... to reinvigorate the you-know-what-rhymes-with-flock by opening McDonald’s franchises in brothels.

Jesus left there and went to a Mega church in rural Ohio. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down. Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them. The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.

Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way."

His disciples answered, "Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?"

"How many loaves do you have?" Jesus asked.

"Seven," they replied, "and a few small lumps of ground beef."

He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and the ground beef, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn made McMass hamburgers out of it and sold them for US$ 5.76 each to the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up five tons of garbage that were left behind. The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children. After Jesus had sent the crowd away, he got into his limousine and went to his bank to make a deposit.

- Matthew 15:29-39, NIV translation.

If you have to resort to Ronald McDonald and Mayor McCheese to help sell your holy gospel, you may as well hang it up.