Letters To Britney Spears
The church hit national newswires on October 27, 2007, when the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Southland was preparing to send a package to Britney Spears filled with letters from church members bearing the general message "Britney, Jesus loves you." Weece was inspired to send the package after seeing news of her personal problems in 2007. Then, in a sermon and a September blog entry on Southland's official web site, he asked Southland members to send the letters, asking them, "What if Britney Spears were Britney Smith and what if she lived next door to us? What would we do?" In his sermon introducing the idea to the congregation, Weece cited Mother Teresa saying, "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
As of the Herald-Leader report, the church was still collecting letters, and was trying to determine the best way to make sure the letters actually got to her.
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