Several churches throughout the state of California have announced that they will take part in an event called “National Porn Sunday,” which is intended to raise concerns and start a dialog around the issues surrounding “the problem of pornography.” The one-day, nation-wide event, scheduled for Oct. 9, will attack “America’s dirty little secret” through what is termed an “explosive” program designed for churches.
Mike Foster and Craig Gross, the pastors and founders of XXXchurch.com, will officially announce the event on Monday when they drive their Porn Sunday Message Mobile—a 20 x 10-foot rolling billboard—down Sunset Boulevard in front of the Hollywood Hustler store.
“Pastors are quite conflicted as to how to talk about pornography,” says Bill Hybels, president of the Willow Creek Association, a not-for-profit ministry that attempts to link like-minded, action-oriented churches with each other through strategic vision, training, and resources. “These guys [Foster and Gross] get it! They talk about pornography in a way people can relate to, and a lot of what they do, I think is genius.”
Foster and Gross have stirred up a bit of a fuss with their popular Web site, and their program for Porn Sunday will follow suit with their offering of the National Porn Sunday Kit, which features books, software, Web sites, speakers, access to the best recovery facilities in the country and, of course, Foster and Gross’s feature-length documentary film Missionary Positions. The film has received widespread attention across the country, picking up trophies for Best Documentary at both the West Valley Independent Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Nashville Film Festival. It is scheduled for wide release following Porn Sunday.
“We have to respond to this devastating problem,” Gross posits in a statement released Friday. “We are sick of watching people lose everything to porn, and the church needs to lead this effort. We hope National Porn Sunday will become the launching pad for the discussion about pornography.”
It is expected that seven churches throughout the state of California, as well as 70-plus churches across the world, will participate in National Porn Sunday.
Meanwhile, in related news, porn king Ron Jeremy told AVNOnline.com that, “In honor of National Porn Sunday (and football), I will be finding a bunch of girls who will pass me back and forth like a football for my new movie Wide World of Spurts.”
For more information, visit www.xxxchurch.com or www.pornsunday.com.
