{"id":666,"date":"2012-04-27T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/gc2012\/?p=666"},"modified":"2012-04-27T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:25:23","slug":"when-general-conference-meets-celebrity-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/when-general-conference-meets-celebrity-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"When General Conference Meets Celebrity Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

My two worlds just collided and I am so giddy. Something huge happened, and I am sure you\u2019ll roll your eyes at me, but it\u2019s big and let me tell you why.<\/p>\n

Perez Hilton posted about General Conference.<\/strong> Click HERE<\/a> to see his blog post!<\/p>\n

Perez Hilton is a celebrity gossip blogger whose tagline is \u201cCelebrity Juice, Not From Concentrate\u201d. \u00a0He is a controversial figure, but recently has really turned his life around and made his blog sassy, not mean.<\/p>\n

Okay, now to the why this is important.<\/p>\n

Perez Hilton gets 915,000 unique visits per month<\/em> to his website. That\u2019s almost a million visits from almost a million different people! 61% of his readers are women and 43% of his readers are 18-34 years of age<\/strong> [Statistics taken from FindTheBest<\/a>]. Also, I remember reading once (a few years ago, can\u2019t find the article right now), that most of his readers were not religious<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hmmmm\u2026 can you see why this is important now? Perez Hilton is reaching the demographic that The United Methodist Church is currently failing to reach.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, young adults are reading about how The United Methodist Church is debating our stance on homosexuality. My friends, today people we haven\u2019t reached<\/strong> are learning about us because Perez Hilton blogged about us.<\/p>\n

P.S. Also, while I am on celebrity gossip. The person at UMCOM who bought the commercial space for Rethink Church during Keeping Up with the Kardashians is a genius!<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: By Kenski1970, Creative Commons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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