Whoa.  That's a big swingandamiss for our latest McJesus Franchise opening here in Eden Prairie.

Christ's Family Church International sent me a piece of analog-spam the size of a large postcard.  On the front, is a picture of a bunch of multi-ethnic teens slouching around some concrete steps sporting a skate-board and a basketball in front of a ferociously tagged brick wall.  Tremulous clumps of weeds cling tenaciously to the border between the concrete side-walk and the brick wall, the only sign of plantlife in this bleak urban jungle.

"Just wanted you to know...We're in the Hood!" anounces the banner accross the front.  Uh huh.  The "hood" of Eden Prairie.

The back of the postcard thoughtfully gives their location: "Our new facility is located in the Golden Triangle Business Center at (address redacted) directly behind Winter Park - the Minnesota Vikings Training Facility."  Uh huh.  "The Hood" of the Vikings training grounds and the business center of the town, known as the "Golden Triangle".

It goes on to give information about when their services are and how much they LOVE children.

The pastor's first name is Cherrie, and if you believe her picture, she's just as cute as a button as she gazes impishly, yet coyly out from under her perfectly tinted blond hair, capped teeth gleaming, along with noticably manicured nails and a smart black blazer that blends in with the black-and-white photo to leave nothing but Cherrie's shineing face and manicured hand clinging to her doctor husband (who isn't the pastor, but appears with her in the photo, and is listed first in the ending salutation of the communication.)

What a piece of work.  I almost want to go to church there and see what the heck sort of service they do.