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Churches Win With Super Bowl Outreach Edition
By Ron Kopczick | February 3, 2012
On Sunday the New England Patriots and New York Giants battle in Super Bowl XLVI for supremacy of the National Football League. Although only one team can win pro football’s ultimate prize, there are countless churches across the United States that are all winners. Those are the churches using the Pentecostal Evangel to share the gospel in their communities.
Altogether, more than 122,500 bulk copies of the Jan. 29 Pentecostal Evangel Super Bowl Outreach Edition were ordered, literally blowing away the record for secondary sales of a Super Bowl issue that was established last year with 37,870 magazines. In recent history, only the Evangel’s Sept. 23, 2001, Visitors Edition had higher initial bulk sales with 128,833 copies purchased.
The incredible demand for this year’s Super Bowl issue led to two reprints of 92,000 copies following an initial overrun of nearly 30,000 magazines. All copies of the Jan. 29 edition were gone by this past Monday morning. For readers who may have missed the groundbreaking issue, excerpts are available at pe.ag.org and the entire edition at bigOsports.com.
Since January 1996, the Evangel has published an annual Super Bowl Outreach Edition as an evangelism tool for churches and ministries. It is estimated that a composite total of more than 3.72 million Super Bowl-related Evangels have been printed during the past 16 years.
Topics: Pentecostal Evangel, football, Super Bowl, evangelism, Uncategorized |
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