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.
I don’t think this would help in my parish. And if people aren’t coming because we have Jesus truly present with us - body, blood, soul and divinity - why would they come for a Harley.

Of course, since I’d be at church anyway, I would put my name in. I could use a PT Cruiser. (Or any vehicle that doesn’t have three tires in the grave and one on a banana peel.) I think the man/woman thing is a little sexist, too. But I did promise my late motorcycling father that I would stay away from motorcycles. He knew I wasn’t the most coordinated bough on the family tree.

What would work at my parish - and why they’ve never taken up my scathingly brilliant idea I will never comprehend - would be to raffle off a guaranteed parking space. Isolating one special place and raffling off guaranteed use at a specific Mass 52 Sundays a year could be a great fundraiser. (And maybe make the tickets $5 a piece and guarantee Christmas/Easter/all of Holy Week/all holy days). Right now the only guaranteed parking is in the priests’ garage. And they are occassionally blocked in by bozos who think it is alright to park outside the garage doors...