Big Ass Fans comes to the aid of N.Y. church
The sacred and secular collided in Flatbush, N.Y., last week, and both came away winners.
Our Lady of Refuge Church got a 24-foot fan to cool its sanctuary and Lexington’s Big Ass Fan Co. got national publicity from its “wicked name,” said the New York Daily News.
“Oh my gosh!” church administrator Judy Agard told the Daily News. “We might have to change the name (on the fan). It’s a church!”
Our Lady of Refuge is about 100 years old and has no air conditioning, said Big Ass spokeswoman Shannon White. So the congregation chipped in to buy the $7,500 fan.
Normally, installation costs $4,000 and takes two people to install, but the Flatbush church had structural and electrical problems that boosted the cost to $25,000.
Seven people had to work 75 feet above the floor to get the job done.
There are Big Ass Fans in about 50 churches, White said, but this was “unlike any installation we have ever done before.”
Something else was different, too. Big Ass held a fund-raiser to help pay for the installation.
Lexington employees who donated $10 got to work in shorts on Friday. The $890 was matched by Big Ass President
Carey Smith to bring the total to $1,780.
Smith also was invited to appear on Fox Business Network to discuss his company and his entrepreneurial ideas.
What’s that passage in the Bible? “The Lord works in mysterious ways?”
