Entrepreneurs offer post-'rapture' services

Bart Centre, with his dog Maddie, is a retired retail executive living on 20 acres in New Hampshire who has garnered international attention through Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, a venture he launched in 2009 that promises to care for pets left behind by the Rapture. (Caleb Kenna, For The Times / March 25, 2011)

Ventures include offering rapture believers pet care and a chance to send letters to nonbelieving loved ones in the event the faithful are swept away.

By Abby Sewell,
Los Angeles Times
May 19, 2011

Natalie Jones said the idea of paying someone to send emails to her loved ones after the "rapture" would have seemed preposterous to her a few years ago.

That was before the occupational health therapist and mother of two in Surrey, Britain, became a born-again Christian. She now believes the faithful will be swept up in the skies to unite with Jesus in the rapture, while nonbelievers will be left behind to wait for Armageddon and the second coming of Christ.

Eight months ago, Jones paid $14.95 to a website called You've Been Left Behind to send letters to nonbelieving loved ones in the event she is taken away in the rapture.

"I'm the only Christian in my family, so what I really have to achieve is to warn them about everything, but they just think I'm crazy," said Jones, 43.

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