ChurchCandy Marketing

Brady Sticker is the founder and CEO of ChurchCandy Marketing, a Facebook and Instagram ads shop built exclusively for local churches. His path into the category is unusual: while studying at Christ for the Nations Institute and Dallas Baptist University, Sticker worked alongside his father, Billy, helping build ChiroCandy Marketing, a digital agency serving chiropractors. That apprenticeship gave him a working model of what a tight-niche, ads-driven agency could do in a vertical most generalists ignore. After graduation, Sticker and his wife Sara moved to The Woodlands, Texas to help plant Vibrant Church, where they served as student pastors. During that same stretch he was managing ad campaigns for more than 300 clients on the ChiroCandy side and running all of Vibrant's pre-launch Facebook advertising. According to the site, Vibrant consistently drew 20 to 50 first-time guests per month from digital outreach alone, even through the pandemic — the proof-of-concept that convinced him a church-only agency could work. ChurchCandy launched in 2022 with that thesis: local churches are under-marketed, the playbook from a performance-driven vertical like chiropractic can be adapted to Sunday visitor acquisition, and the right metric is new guests through the door, not likes or reach. The firm states it now works with more than 450 churches across the U.S. and has begun taking on clients in Canada and Mexico. The public founder story leans heavily on calling and ministry framing; specifics on team size and internal operations are light on the site.