Sneakers Worship

Sneakers Worship

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Posted: Jan 18, 2022 / 04:30 AM EST

Updated: Jan 18, 2022 / 10:21 AM EST

Posted: Jan 18, 2022 / 04:30 AM EST

Updated: Jan 18, 2022 / 10:21 AM EST
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — A worship leader known for sporting her love for Jesus and sneakers is now singing from a different stage after her battle with colon cancer.
“I was very proud,” said Pastor Brenda Rijfkogel, Sarah Rijfkogel’s mom. “It did my heart good to think that not only was my husband leading people in the word, my daughter was leading people in the presence before he even opened up with the word.”
Sarah Rijfkogel was a worship leader at Grand Rapids First, the place where her father is the lead pastor.
Loved ones say she always rocked the latest pair of kicks while using her instrument to glorify God.
“Sarah was so gifted, anointed and talented, but she had a great presence of God,” said Pastor Sam Rijfkogel, Sarah Rijfkogel’s dad.
Sarah Rijfkogel’s performances lessened as her battle with stage 4 colon cancer intensified. But even on her more challenging days, worshipers said she still found the strength to make a joyful noise.
“Here’s what she told me, she said, ‘I don’t feel the pain. I don’t think about that when I’m worshiping,'” recalled Drew McElhenny, the worship arts pastor at Grand Rapids First.
She continued to sing until she could no longer perform publicly. She even worshipped at home until she took her final breath on Jan. 12 at age 27.
Her mom posted about the passing online, saying in part, “our precious baby girl ran into the arms of Jesus early this morning.”
“It was just meant for her to be with Jesus right now,” her mom said.
Sarah Rijfkogel’s church family memorialized her on stage on Sunday. They honored her with a white microphone stand and a fresh pair of sneakers at the bottom.
“Sarah was one of those people where you would see the joy,” said McElhenny. “You’d see the peace when she’d lead worship, and if you’re watching and participating in worship, you’d connect to that.”
Although her passing wells up a sadness that her loved ones can never reverse, they find comfort in her music, knowing their sneaker-wearing Sarah Rijfkogel is singing in a new choir in the sky.
“You did a great job,” her mom continued.
Loved ones told News 8 a celebration of life will be held for Sarah Rijfkogel Tuesday at Grand Rapids First. A viewing will take from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and a service will follow at 7 p.m. They said supporters are encouraged to wear sneakers and a hoodie, Sarah Rijfkogel’s favorite outfit of choice.
In lieu of flowers, Grand Rapids First leadership said donations can be made to the Sarah J. Rijfkogel Foundation, which they said will help develop the next generation of worship leaders. Anyone who feels called to give may do so here .
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From his couch in Dallas, Ben Kirby began asking questions about the lifestyles of the rich and famous pastors when he was watching some worship songs on YouTube on a Sunday morning in 2019. While listening to a song by Elevation Worship, a megachurch based in Charlotte, the evangelical churchgoer noticed the lead singer’s Yeezy sneakers were worth nearly the amount of his first rent check.
Kirby posted to his 400 followers on Instagram, “Hey Elevation Worship, how much you paying your musicians that they can afford $800 kicks? Let me get on the payroll!”
Plus, Kirby wondered, how could the church’s pastor, Steven Furtick, one of the most popular preachers in the country, afford a new designer outfit nearly every week?
With a friend’s encouragement, Kirby started a new Instagram account @PreachersNSneakers posting screenshots of pastors next to price tags and the street value of shoes they were wearing. Within a month, the account had attracted 100,000 followers.
“At the beginning, it was easy for me to make jokes about it,” he said. “Some of the outfits are absurd, so it’s easy to laugh at some of the designer pieces. The price tags are outlandish.”
On his feed, Kirby has showcased Seattle pastor Judah Smith’s $3,600 Gucci jacket, Dallas pastor T.D. Jakes’s $1,250 Louboutin fanny pack and Miami pastor Guillermo Maldonado’s $2,541 Ricci crocodile belt. And he considers Paula White, former president Donald Trump’s most trusted pastoral adviser who is often photographed in designer items, a PreachersNSneakers “content goldmine,” posting a photo of her wearing $785 Stella McCartney sneakers.
As the Instagram account grew, Kirby started asking more serious questions about wealth, class and consumerism, including whether it’s appropriate to generate massive revenue from selling the gospel of Jesus.
“I began asking, how much is too much?” Kirby said. “Is it okay to get rich off of preaching about Jesus? Is it okay to be making twice as much as the median income of your congregation?”
The Washington Post tried to contact several pastors featured on the Instagram account for comment, including Carl Lentz, White and Jakes, but none of them replied.
For the past two years, Kirby has posted and podcasted without sharing his real name, but recently he decided to share his real identity with The Post with the release of his new book, “PreachersNsneakers: Authenticity in an Age of For-Profit Faith and (Wannabe) Celebrities.”
Kirby, 31, who grew up in a Christian home schooling family in Rustin, La., holds a degree in marketing management and an MBA. He attends a nondenominational church and considers himself an evangelical, he said, “not as in, ‘Trump is the chosen one,’ but I believe in sharing my faith.”
When Kirby began showcasing pastors’ high fashion, he was putting dollar signs on designer items for everyone to see just how expensive the clothing items were valued, said Whitney Bauck, a journalist who writes about ethically sourced fashion and first wrote about the Instagram account.
“He is someone who gets Christianity enough and gets fashion enough, but also has a really critical eye,” Bauck said. “He’s not a known professional in either space, so he was willing to say things that people in those spaces weren’t.”
Kirby’s father is a family-practice doctor, so he grew up in what he describes as a “comfortable but modest lifestyle,” where his parents gave generously to their church. He remembers feeling confused when he saw his “Pastor Charles” driving a royal blue Harley Davidson cruiser, worth more than one year of his parent’s tithes. That’s when, he said, he realized that there was a connection between successful ministry and booming business.
In his new book, Kirby highlights a nationwide trend of pastors wearing oversize glasses, tight jeans and pricey kicks who look like they belong at “your local craft-cocktail watering hole instead of church.”
“Gone are the days of a choir, suited up pastor and random people sitting in velvet chairs onstage. No,” Kirby writes. “Now it’s a U2 incarnate worship band, perfected placed LED wash lights and a pastor … motivating, edgy and might even let a cuss word slip if you’re lucky.”
From suits to denim, many pastors of all kinds of denominations have shifted in their dress in recent years. The Rev. Melech Thomas, who was born in Baltimore and now pastors an AME church near Raleigh, N.C. said he started attending a Black church in the 1990s, when all the pastors wore black suits. He watched as a generation of young Black male youth pastors began trying to reach a hip-hop generation by wearing jeans and Jordans.
“First it was a theological statement,” Thomas said. “Now it’s a statement of status.”
Thomas, who has been a minister in places with lower-income populations, said he buys most of his clothes from places that set an example to his followers that they don’t have to go into debt to impress people.
“They’re making deliberate choices with the DaVinci, the Prada,” Thomas said. “It seems like they’re choosing to do ministry to people who can afford shoes like that.”
In his book, Kirby writes that these pastors who have enormous social media followings aren’t just simply pastors anymore, he writes. Often they are motivational speakers, corporate coaches and leadership consultants. Kirby said he has been to churches where a volunteer was designated solely for the purpose of carrying the pastor’s Bible. Often, he writes, these pastors have private entrances, reserved parking spaces, security details and a gaggle of personal assistants or handlers. And, often, they promise blessings from God to their followers if their followers bless the church.
“Like Hollywood – a world so often criticized by the pietistic – these institutions and their leaders celebrate and reward the ‘blessing’ of fame, popularity and influence,” he writes. “Pastors function like ‘talent’ performing for an audience or like a spokesman for the church’s ‘brand.’ “
In recent years, the line between who is a pastor and who is a celebrity has been blurred. Kirby notes how often Hollywood celebrities and preacher celebrities will be seen together in social media posts, such as Lentz playing basketball with Drake, pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. FaceTimeing with Justin Bieber or pastor Craig Groeschel hanging out with Kanye West at his ranch in Wyoming.
Tim Gloege, a historian who wrote a book called “Guaranteed Pure” about marketing in evangelicalism, said fashion has always been important in religion. In Catholicism, dress was once simple and drawing on ancient Roman dress before liturgical dress became quite regal. The dress was so elaborate that it was the theme of the 2018 Met Gala.
During the Protestant Reformation, Gloege said, clergy dress became more academic during a movement toward simplicity.
But in the early 20th century, an evangelist named D.L. Moody made a big splash by dressing in business attire instead of clerical dress. Moody’s business attire made a class statement by associating himself with the respected leaders of his day, according to Gloege, and other pastors began to follow his example.
“Dress often reflects who people currently admire, and how you generate authority in society,” he said. “Do you trust the Koch brothers or George Clooney?”
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the median salary for clergy was $53,180 in 2019, but Kirby’s Instagram feed showcases how a nationwide evangelical market has become lucrative for leaders with celebrity status. Like other social media influencers, sometimes these pastors are gifted the shoes and clothes they wear.
Kirby notes how the fancy-sneaker-wearing preacher trend has taken off while the resale market for sneakers has also boomed. In 2019, Kirby posted a picture of Pastor John Gray wearing the coveted Nike Air Yeezy 2 Red Octobers, selling at the time on the resale market for more than $5,600. If a pastor wears a new pair of shoes with a lucrative resale value and instead chooses to wear them, it can demonstrate to followers that he can afford to not resell them.
Across the United States, the biggest-name pastors and worship leaders produce best-selling books and albums, often earning huge salaries and housing allowances from their churches. And many of the biggest churches, which do not have to disclose their revenue publicly, often generate opulent untaxed revenue.
In recent years, West has helped to bring merchandise into churches with his creation of “Sunday Service,” eventually selling $50 socks that said “Jesus Walks” and $225 crewneck sweatshirts with “Holy Spirit” on the front. Many megachurches began follow, developing their own merch with streetwear elements.
Since starting the Instagram account, Kirby has been dipping his own toes into the evangelical marketplace, entering a world that he has so openly critiqued. Like church leaders, his income is partially dependent on his podcast advertising and book sales, and he sells merch based off the brand. He has had his own brushes with fame, texting with people such as once-major megachurch preacher Lentz, befriending Joel McHale of the TV show “Community” and attending a Super Bowl party at NBA star Carmelo Anthony’s home.
Kirby doesn’t want Christians to abandon fashion or celebrities, but he does want more transparency and accountability.
“I’m getting people to question the status quo within the church and hopefully push for a reevaluation of what we value,” he said. “People aren’t going to reach God without this guy wearing Yeezys? Come on.”

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