Churches using humorous US-style signs

British churches are using American-style humorous signs to attract worshippers.

Pastor Paul Sinclair helped start the trend when he was running the Elim Pentecostal Church in Willesden, north London
With congregations in decline clergy have resorted to putting up the US-inspired signs - known as "wayside pulpits".

The signs use everything from word play such as "Fight truth decay" to topical themes such as "Rooney shoots but Jesus saves".

Pastor Paul Sinclair helped start the trend when he was running the Elim Pentecostal Church in Willesden, north London.

He said: "When I joined the church it was on the verge of closure because the congregation consisted of only 14 ladies.

"I decided to target the signs at people who didn't come to church, rather than those who did, so I wanted to come up with something that would catch people's eye. I did the first sign in the summer of 1989 and it said, 'Come to church now and miss the Christmas rush'.

"The posters worked and eventually the congregation grew to 120."

The signs have also been popular in Wimbledon, south London.

Ben Shaw, 40, an assistant at Emmanuel Church, has been designing its posters for about five years.

He said: "Being in Wimbledon I usually put up a tennis-themed sign in the summer. Last year I put one up saying, 'God made Roger Federer' and apparently he loved it and had his photo taken by it."

The fashion for wayside pulpits has grown to such an extent that in 2007 church property insurers Congregational & General ran a competition to find the best. (telegraph online)


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