Smarter Sheep

My name is xxxx and I am the president of a ladies corset company. My company is Christian owned and operates in Mount Clemens, MI. I know church fundraising can be challenging. My company offers a free Partnership Program to help churches raise funds. Churches that partner with us receive an individual church code. When a customer purchases from us using the church code, the partner church receives 10% of the total purchase. The church only needs to let their congregations and supporters know about our partnership, give them the church code, our website address and phone. We will do the rest. Please review our website at: xxxx If you are interested in a partnership, click on the Site Map link and go to Partnership Application Form. Fill it out and submit it. I look forward to helping your church continue to spread the Word.

Ok, so I can see our youth group out selling ladies corsets to raise money for summer camp can’t you? Imagine spreading the word as you go door to door sharing the gospel message and inviting unsuspecting seekers to visit the ladies corset website on their home computers… good grief…

This is the first post in a new series I’m calling “Email from the Trenches”. Every week I get emails through the church website that are left by church email spammers. Some of them are intelligent… but many are not. In the last few months, I have received over 300 of these messages. They are not your typical spam though, each one had to take the time to fill out our website form and actually paste their message in before sending it. I don’t want to discount the many legitimate and touching emails that are left by other genuine people, but the spammers are worth having a little fun and some conversation over.

Let me just start this whole series off with the subject of the Email from the Trenches #1. The subject was simply titled “Alien Demonic Forces” … I knew right away this one was going to superceed a previous favorite that had to do with youth camp fundraising by selling Ladies Corsets.