MOBILE, Alabama -- The Gulf Coast Coalition of Reason unveiled four prominent billboards in the new year seeking to unite people who do not believe in God.

CGCR is a unified body of the Greater Mobile Atheists, Mobile Atheist Community, the Secular Student Alliance at University of South Alabama, SW Alabama Freethinkers and Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Mobile in conjunction with a dozen similar groups from Florida and Mississippi.

The billboards cost $11,000 and were funded from the United Coalition of Reason headquartered in Washington DC.

Mobile's billboard is located on Interstate 10 west of Carol Plantation Road and east of Theodore Dawes Road.

Local co-coordinator Amanda Scott said that the billboards are a welcome feeling of solidarity.

"Seeing this billboard makes me feel a part of a welcoming community when I am constantly feeling alienated by religious advertisements," Scott told AL.com Tuesday.

There are several billboards locally proclaiming the return of God or asking that people "talk to God."

"Mobile atheists see it as a great tool to connect non-believers," said Scott.

Co-coordinator Buz Ryland echoed Scott.

"We know there are thousands of us along the Gulf Coast and we want them to know we are here, and that they have a community where they can also be a part of doing good," said Ryland.

The billboards draw attention to their website, gulfcoastcor.org which in turn directs people to contact information for local groups that are part of the coalition.

There are two billboards in Pensacola and one in Pascagoula, Mississippi.