Church Giving Away Motorcycle, Car To Boost Attendance
POSTED: 11:41 a.m. EST December 29, 2003
GALVESTON, Texas -- A church near Houston is dangling a couple of motorized carrots to increase its congregation.
Abundant Life Christian Center in La Marque will give away a new Chrysler PT Cruiser to a woman and a Harley Davidson Sportster to a man at its New Year's Eve service.
Parishioners and visitors have been eligible to enter for the free drawings each time they attended a service in recent weeks, and members who brought visitors could enter twice.
The church has already purchased the vehicles.
The winners must be at Wednesday's service to drive them away.
Pastor Walter Hallam told the Galveston Daily News, "This is an opportunity to give something to someone that will encourage people to come to the house of the Lord."