Restoration Ad Campaign, LA Times
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We have set up a GoFundMe page to finance an advertisement in the LA Times to run on a Sunday after the September conference at Boise at which it is to be proposed that we receive the Restoration Edition scriptures as canon by covenant. The ad is projected to list the commandments of the Lord explicitly, announce Denver Snuffer's California talk venue, and provide internet resources for seekers for baptism and fellowshipping
The LA Times has a Sunday circulation of 2.4 million, according to the rep I spoke with. These are the rates I was quoted, and they're not set in stone.
Sunday
$6,655.00 for a 1/4 page
$2,980.00 for a 1/9 page
As the ad rates may be arbitrarily different based on how the editors or sales managers at the LA Times feel about the content of the ad, and to cover GoFundMe's charges, we propose to raise $7,200 to pay for a quarter ad in a Sunday edition. We will buy the largest Sunday ad we can with whatever is raised by mid- September.
Whatever we receive in excess of the ad purchase will be forwarded to the temple fund, and if we don't get enough for a Sunday ad, we will forward what we do receive to the temple fund .
Time is short, and we must invite, teach, and warn mankind about what they must do to survive the coming of the Lord, lest their blood come upon our garments and we are found unclean before the Lord.
As disciples of Christ, we are supposed to be preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Into whatsoever place we cannot go, we are commanded to send. A digital advertising campaign shall vanish into the aether when the ad stops running, and people have ad blockers (like me!). A newspaper has sticking power, finding its way past digital gatekeepers, nonsolicit signs, and gated community gates. Newspapers hit the old and the young, the rich and the poor, not excepting those who sleep on the street. They are egalitarian. Newspapers get into doctors' offices, business lobbies, and school libraries, where angels might direct eyes, minds, and hearts to peruse. This is a substitute for going door-to-door, for we have not enough time to hit 2.4 million doors before Denver's September talk.
We have sufficient in a fund dedicated to God to pay for the 1/9 page ad ourselves, so the ad is going to happen. The only question being put to you is whether anyone in the Restorationist / Remnant movement shall of their own free will and choice and good desires towards God and mankind contribute their means to make the message louder and more complete. We offer this as an opportunity for anyone who desires to spread the gospel.
We are using GoFundMe because it affords transparency and obviates certain issues with distrust. With a newspaper ad, it can be verified that we use the funds for the purpose we declare, for we shall have the ad to produce.
If we are sincere, and feasting upon the words of Christ as we declare, then it behooves us to feed others who are starving in spirit and know it not. The needs of the temporal body must also be met, but not to the omission of the preaching of the gospel. We can both feed the poor and follow the promptings of the Spirit to contribute to the spreading of the word of God. These activities are not mutually exclusive, even if the $5 you give to the ad campaign cannot simultaneously be given to the homeless bum on the street. We can simply give more.
If any feel to not contribute, but would prefer instead to dedicate their funds to feed the poor, that also is a good work. We are not asking that you give to the ad campaign because then, by the law of God, you would be under obligation to give, even if you disagreed with it (Luke 6:30). We simply present it to you as an opportunity, if you would like to avail yourself of it.
Remember: whosoever breaks, and teaches men to break the least of Christ's commandments shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven, but whoso both does and teaches the commandments of the law until it is fulfilled shall be called great and shall be saved in the kingdom of heaven (JST Matthew 5:21-22).
We feel to do just that, that we may lay hold upon the promise of the Lord, for he has said that he is bound if we do what he says, but if we do not what he says, we have no promise - and with no promise we have no faith, and therefore no salvation.
Jared and Fawn Livesey
The LA Times has a Sunday circulation of 2.4 million, according to the rep I spoke with. These are the rates I was quoted, and they're not set in stone.
Sunday
$6,655.00 for a 1/4 page
$2,980.00 for a 1/9 page
As the ad rates may be arbitrarily different based on how the editors or sales managers at the LA Times feel about the content of the ad, and to cover GoFundMe's charges, we propose to raise $7,200 to pay for a quarter ad in a Sunday edition. We will buy the largest Sunday ad we can with whatever is raised by mid- September.
Whatever we receive in excess of the ad purchase will be forwarded to the temple fund, and if we don't get enough for a Sunday ad, we will forward what we do receive to the temple fund .
Time is short, and we must invite, teach, and warn mankind about what they must do to survive the coming of the Lord, lest their blood come upon our garments and we are found unclean before the Lord.
As disciples of Christ, we are supposed to be preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Into whatsoever place we cannot go, we are commanded to send. A digital advertising campaign shall vanish into the aether when the ad stops running, and people have ad blockers (like me!). A newspaper has sticking power, finding its way past digital gatekeepers, nonsolicit signs, and gated community gates. Newspapers hit the old and the young, the rich and the poor, not excepting those who sleep on the street. They are egalitarian. Newspapers get into doctors' offices, business lobbies, and school libraries, where angels might direct eyes, minds, and hearts to peruse. This is a substitute for going door-to-door, for we have not enough time to hit 2.4 million doors before Denver's September talk.
We have sufficient in a fund dedicated to God to pay for the 1/9 page ad ourselves, so the ad is going to happen. The only question being put to you is whether anyone in the Restorationist / Remnant movement shall of their own free will and choice and good desires towards God and mankind contribute their means to make the message louder and more complete. We offer this as an opportunity for anyone who desires to spread the gospel.
We are using GoFundMe because it affords transparency and obviates certain issues with distrust. With a newspaper ad, it can be verified that we use the funds for the purpose we declare, for we shall have the ad to produce.
If we are sincere, and feasting upon the words of Christ as we declare, then it behooves us to feed others who are starving in spirit and know it not. The needs of the temporal body must also be met, but not to the omission of the preaching of the gospel. We can both feed the poor and follow the promptings of the Spirit to contribute to the spreading of the word of God. These activities are not mutually exclusive, even if the $5 you give to the ad campaign cannot simultaneously be given to the homeless bum on the street. We can simply give more.
If any feel to not contribute, but would prefer instead to dedicate their funds to feed the poor, that also is a good work. We are not asking that you give to the ad campaign because then, by the law of God, you would be under obligation to give, even if you disagreed with it (Luke 6:30). We simply present it to you as an opportunity, if you would like to avail yourself of it.
Remember: whosoever breaks, and teaches men to break the least of Christ's commandments shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven, but whoso both does and teaches the commandments of the law until it is fulfilled shall be called great and shall be saved in the kingdom of heaven (JST Matthew 5:21-22).
We feel to do just that, that we may lay hold upon the promise of the Lord, for he has said that he is bound if we do what he says, but if we do not what he says, we have no promise - and with no promise we have no faith, and therefore no salvation.
Jared and Fawn Livesey
Organizer
Fawn Livesey
Organizer
Bakersfield, CA
