Can church and playing sport be combined?

Do you think that 'messy' is the only way to do Messy Church? Think again! Encounters on the Edge tells the story of a fresh expression of church in York called Sweaty Church. Sweaty Church, based in St Paul's Holgate, adheres to the Messy Church value of 'learning as a family' but uses sport instead of craft to explore the value of creativity that helps us understand more about what it is to be truly human. Table tennis, tightrope walking and indoor hockey are all regular features and Sweaty Church
addresses how church can develop for kinaesthetic learners, that is, people who learn best by physical engagement, rather than learning by seeing, hearing or reading.
Issue no. 56: Sweaty Church: Church for Kinaesthetic Learners is the final publication in this 15-year series. However, all the stories in the Encounters on the Edge series continue to be available for online purchase here priced at £2.50. Church Army's Research Unit will
continue to encounter fresh expressions of church on the edge but, in future, its findings will be published in a web-based format.