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Highlighted below is an excerpt from an article on how pickleball is helping churches not only give people opportunity to fellowship but how our church has connected with the community.
“Courts help neighbors feel they Belong”
“The new pickleball courts at St. Paul’s UMC in Brick provide one of many ways the church helps its community feel it “belongs,” says Tom O’Hearn, adopting GNJ’s 2024 Annual Conference theme.
“Our church now has portable pickleball courts in our fellowship hall to offer those in our surrounding community a time for fellowship and exercise,” he writes. “We have had more than 500 people come to play over the past three years. Many have joined us for worship, and a few have joined the church and our choirs.” The church also hosts in its gym basic instructional pickleball sessions for beginners for just $10. An unexpected benefit of the ministry, said O’Hearn, is the donations of pickleball players, which help the church fund much of its missions and ministries, as well as capital improvements and utility expenses.”
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https://www.epaumc.org/news/neighbors-enter-church-pickleball-courts-with-praise/
