2026-03-30 12:48:57

An Alabama church has gone viral thanks to its artwork featuring sporty biblical figures.

Andie Williams was helping coach her son’s soccer team at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in Madison when she spotted the murals on the wall, with the figures depicted including ‘Air Moses’, who was leaping in the air with a flaming basketball in place of the firey bush from the Old Testament, and ‘Pickleball Paul’, which saw the apostle enjoying the modern-day sporting sensation.

Andie shared footage online of the kids playing soccer with the murals visible in the background along with the caption: “Tell me you’re practicing in a church gym.”

The post instantly took off.

Andie told Today: “I got home and thought, I’m just going to post this and see if my friends think it’s funny. And the next morning, it already had 20,000 views on it.”

Atlanta-based artist Chad Camp had painted the murals, with Air Moses dating back to around 2006 and Pickleball Paul added two years ago.

Pastor Brittany Dawkins-Camp – who was previously married to Chat – said: “We had just launched the Upward Sports basketball program at our church, and we wanted something fun on the wall, something that people would get a kick out of, something kind of iconic.

“And so we went with the ‘Air Moses.’ “

Of Pickleball Paul she added: “He came along because our church started a community pickleball league that plays three days a week in the gym, and we just wanted something to represent them.”

The pastor is delighted to see the reaction to the artwork.

She said: “We actually played (the news clip) at worship last week as part of our announcements. It’s just been really fun for our congregation to see that the heartbeat of our church is to be right in our community. It’s been fun to watch that go viral, and for people to love our murals as much as we do.”

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